J. Robert Lennon
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Something Short and Weird
Electric Literature has announced the upcoming debut of its weekly online magazine Okey-Panky, a cocktail of short, experimental writing brewed to cure the Monday blues: Okey-Panky would be dedicated to brevity, eccentricity, and dark humor. It would publish every Monday…
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Stop Reading New Fiction?
It has a provocative headline (“Literary fiction is boring!”), but J. Robert Lennon’s Salon piece about what writers should read is not nearly as simplistic or sensationalist as you might expect. Whether you agree with his conclusions or not, he does…
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“Music and Words Go Together So Nicely”
If writing and rock music go together like peanut butter and jelly, this New York Times essay is the diagonally cut sandwich bread that delivers them to your taste buds. In it, J. Robert Lennon probes the economic and artistic similarities…