July 2011
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““I’ve been trying to figure out how to live,” Margo said, but...”
– Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell
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The novel is going slow right now. I’ve written a very clunky first draft, but all the stuff going on with the publication of Knockemstiff has me unable to really focus right now. I’m a bit obsessive/compulsive, and so it’s all or nothing most of the time. I figure everything will die down concerning the story collection here pretty soon, and I plan on working my ass off on...
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“I should fictionalize it more, I should conceal myself. I should consider the...”
– Rick Moody, “Demonology”
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“As a single balloon must stand for a lifetime of thinking about balloons, so...”
– Donald Barthelme, “The Balloon” (rereading some Barthelme)
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“Is that the one that takes place aboard a doomed cruise ship?” “No,...”
– “Matinée” by Robert Coover in New Yorker (must be a subscriber)
“Summer is a discouraging time to work–-you don’t feel death coming on the way it...”
– Hemingway in a letter to Fitzgerald, from Hemingway: The 1930s (via wwnorton)
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Friday Night Lights probably rates high on the ‘cheesiness scale,’ but I’m OK with that because I often feel uncomfortable about how cheesy many of my real emotions and feelings are.
and also this:
It is hard to say goodbye to the FNL family, but I have accepted that there will never be another season of football in Dillon, Texas. Now I’m forced to try to find...
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WatchAnn Arbor DOGZPLOT reading
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Something just reminded me of this old Esquire piece, written by Hobart 8 contributor Craig Davidson, about doing steroids as research for his novel.
I love stuff like this. Reading it makes me squirm and kinda uncomfortable, but I love it. Wanna read more like it.
A while back I wrote a novel. A lot of first-time novelists don’t stray far from home; their stories are drawn from their...
