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Who else could publish an autobiography 100 years after his death and still have people interested? Well, maybe a lot of people. Still, it’s Mark Twain.
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I was watching this episode of NOVA last night which talked about Mandelbrot’s discovery of fractal geometry and how it can be used to measure things in nature. Basically repetition of patterns that create jagged shapes is the key. Then today, out of nowhere, I found this piece, which is quite beautiful, by Alexandra Kleeman…
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Roxane Gay’s story, the second of her three posted today on Wigleaf, “When I Am Fifteen I Will Not Fall in Love.” Damn. All three of her stories are great, and her postcard, too, but this one just riveted me. The last line nailed it, especially. Read it.
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I just read this interview over at Bookslut with Dennis Loy Johnson of Melville House, and I’m thrilled that they’re publishing a Heinrich Böll series. Böll’s books are out of print, though I’ve read them from the library and found a copy of Billiards at Half Past Nine on somebody’s stoop for free a few…
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I just read this on MFA admissions. If you don’t grab ’em with the first paragraph in your writing sample, you’re all done. I think he says 75-85 percent of applications are thrown out immediately after the first paragraph. It makes sense. It’s the same way with any fiction, really. If you’re not grabbed right…
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Here’s the list. City Lights in San Francisco is number one, and the only one in America that makes the cut. I was surprised that New York didn’t have anything on there, but it makes sense. The big ones, like Gotham Book Mart and Coliseum Books, which I used to love, are long gone. There…
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I’d read the Carson McCullers book a few years ago and realized there was a film from 1967 starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, directed by John Huston. I finally got through it, and man, I thought it captured the feel of the book perfectly. Robert Forster was great in his first-ever film role as…
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Shya Scanlon’s debut novel, Forecast, is now available for purchase here. This site participated in the Forecast 42 project last year, and I was very pleased to see the book get published. And if you haven’t seen it, here’s a kick-ass trailer for the book: Forecast by Shya Scanlon | Booktrailer from Flatmancrooked Publishing on Vimeo.
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The reading period for Sententia’s issue 3 is open until January 6, and here’s the idea: “Issue 3 of Sententia will be themed around the pitch, and therefore against the notion of ‘self-contained’ excerpts. It will be a collection of novel excerpts whose purpose is to leave the reader not with an artificial feeling of…
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This Saturday, 9pm, come catch us at The Local 269, 269 E. Houston St. in Manhattan, on the corner of Houston and Suffolk St. on the Lower East Side.
Joe Sullivan 