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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Cross-Dressing Vollmann
“As she works on me, I fall into a drowse, enjoying the caress of the black brush, the sound of rain outside, Yukiko standing over me. I gaze up at her chin and lips, her brown hair, her tinted eyelids.…
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“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”
“The world is not designed to make it easy for you to create and distribute your writing. You say what you have to say and do what you have to do. And maybe what you’re willing to say and do…
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Alienation, Belonging, and History…
“In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to experience both.” Megan Scarborough reviews Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s new poetry collection,…
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“When Life Gives You Volcanoes, Make a Magazine”
Writer and editor Andrew Losowsky has come up with a pretty neat idea for all “designers, writers, photographers, illustrators, art directors and anyone else who is stranded by the ash cloud, and would like something to do. If there’s one…
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“One man’s Shakespeare is another man’s trash fiction.”
“As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.” That’s Vladimir Nabokov taking down Papa in 1972 according to Michelle Kerns’ collection of “best author vs.…
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“This is a nice way of saying we have lied.”
“If we are true to ourselves as dramatists, we will cheat and lie and pile one fraud upon the next, given that with every scene, we make fictional characters say and do things that were never said and done. And…
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Online Classes
Ever wanted to sit in on a class about moral reasoning and justice at Harvard? How about classical mechanics at M.I.T.? Hell, you must be curious about “Physics for Future Presidents,” which is taught at Berkeley (seriously, what is that…
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Misadventure
“Millard Kaufman’s posthumously published novel is a comic-noir page-turner that is equal parts Elmore Leonard and Dashiell Hammett, with bits of Glengarry Glen Ross and Lolita thrown in for good measure.” Kevin Hobson reviews Millard Kaufman’s Misadventure.
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Salon and McSweeney’s Sitting in a Tree…
Yesterday Salon announced a new partnership with McSweeney’s, stating that the online magazine will be “frequently running pieces and excerpts from the various McSweeney’s divisions — McSweeney’s Quarterly Journal, The Believer, Wholphin and McSweeney’s Books — exclusively on Salon.com.” That’s…