May 2013
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"The Haberdash" by Adam Robinson →
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“When I’m reading a book and some character at a party gets up to leave and, as he leaves, ‘gathers up his hat,’ say, ‘from a cloak room,’ say, then I get all unsettled in my quiet. I want too to get up. My heart, a little Russian pig, gets going.”
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My Brother Became Dependent On Online... →
kinda love how read that Fast Machine looks.
mybrotherbecamedependent:
There is a Excel spreadsheet somewhere in my computer that lists every story in Fast Machine (Short Flight/Long Drive), and then in the following columns, different aspects or classifiable elements: age of narrator, age of other characters, animals (?), themes, locations, happy/sad (?), types of sex, etc. See, I wanted...
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The Medicinal Purposes of: i am an orchid →
emscreams:
which means I can die at any moment which means I am the most graceful thing at the grocery store
I have several beautiful heads I have all the body parts and people hunt me
I lounge with decent posture I am attached to a rod with a hair clip
love me and don’t be afraid of me love me because visually you cannot not love me unless I am yellowed or weak
take me from the supermarket...
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"Gatsby’s Hydroplane" by Chris Bachelder →
Saw Gatsby last night. Already looking forward to the DVD release, which I can only assume will (finally) include the deleted hydroplane scene.
tsflynn:
“The missing hydroplane creates a lacuna,” said Dr. William Mays, professor of literature at Tucker-Hayfield College.
“Is that like a fissure? Or rupture?” I asked.
“A lacuna is a hole,” Dr. Mays said.
“A hole in the novel?”
“A hole in...
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Daniel Bejar/Destroyer (The Googlegänger) →
babiesandangels:
an artist named dan bejar (who is not the dan bejar from destroyer, but looks kinda like him) recreates photos of dan bejar (the one from destroyer) that he finds on google. this is ridiculous and i love it. here is artist daniel bejar’s explanation.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux: CLMP recommends "These... →
“These Are the Fables” originally appeared in Hobart…
Amelia Gray, what-what. Everyday, she’s hustlin’.
recommendedreading:
Vol. 13, No. 3
EDITOR’S NOTE
If I’m the first person to tell you about Amelia Gray, we obviously don’t have any Facebook friends in common. More than a few CLMP members have published her: Tin House, Guernica, DIAGRAM, American Short Fiction, to name...
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“Also, I was in possession of a positive outlook, which is just a trick whereby...”
– Sam Lipsyte, “The Worm in Philly”
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“You have to be able to evaluate situations and see if your plan isn’t working...”
– Seth Smith (via mightyflynn)
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“My story won’t end here. I’ll start my own foundation, certify...”
– Sam Lipsyte, “The Wisdom of the Doulas”
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“My idea is to really play the game of baseball. Not many people know what that...”
– Carlton Fisk
(h/t @bookowl)
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jimmychenchen:
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The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2013 →
HOBART in Wigleaf’s 50:
ETHEL ROHAN, “I Love You!” (September 2012)
BECKY TUCH, “Luc Bustomanta” (December 2012)
in the longlist:
Baumer, Mark, “Craig Griffey” (April 2012)
Mayer, Rupprecht, “The Fear of Secretarial Errors“ (December 2012)
Phillips, Emilia, “Cuspis“ (May 2012)
VanDenBerg, William,...
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“I am secretly obsessed with the idea of perfect anything. I am weak and...”
– Marc Maron, “My Desperate, Stupid, Emotional Hunt for the Perfect Pants” - NYTimes.com (via aaronburch)
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BOMB Magazine: Steve Buscemi by Quentin Tarantino,... →
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Ben McGrath: Is R. A. Dickey Too Good to Be True?... →
Read this new New Yorker piece on R.A. Dickey, then go back and (re)read Lauri Anderson Alford’s amazing poem, “Explaining an Affinity for R.A. Dickey,” on Hobart. Or vice versa.
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Watchremember, last month, when Janeane Garofalo bought Elizabeth’s book at the Mission Creek Fesitval in Iowa City? I wish I’d had the means and quick-thinking to have shown her this (@ ~1:16 mark)
hobartpulp:
“A Brief Bio” by Short Flight/Long Drive editor, Elizabeth Ellen.
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“There are rumors and there is the truth and there are true rumors. You want the...”
– Sam Lipsyte: “The Dungeon Master” : The New Yorker
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“I’ll say this much. I’m surprised by how victorious, in a certain sense, the...”
– Vince Gilligan, Re: ‘Breaking Bad’ Finale | Warming Glow (via popculturebrain)
send us Breaking Bad fiction!
Anonymous asked: Damn you literary magazine, get out of my city's tag!
April 2013
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“Scylla is this über-kool bookstore located 129 rue de Charenton in the 12th,...”
– your library will be mine - please follow the golden path
Not sure who this French author, Fabrice Colin, is, but I like his list of authors that the world be be better if people read more of…
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“If I’m loving something, I suddenly discover large chunks of reading time that I...”
– Jonathan Franzen - By the Book - NYTimes.com
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WatchHobart & Short Flight/Long Drive authors, editors, and friends, Mary Miller, Amy Butcher, Elizabeth Ellen, Chloe Caldwell, and Lana Del Rey.
fast-machine:
LDR
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Hobart has gone 2.0 - now with daily content! →
just saw this newly reblogged awesome. it’s been about 7 months now, and… not to brag, but there’s been some pretty great (daily!) content in that span. w00t.
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“The Luck issue was terrific, in my opinion one of the best theme issues I came...”
– Robob Atwan, Series Editor, Best American Essays
These very nice words came with notification that Tod Goldberg’s “When They Let Them Bleed” from Hobart 13 is going to be in this year’s BAE. Thanks, Bob!
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