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September 2011

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“In the championship game of last year’s world tournament, which had more than 1,300 participants, Francis fell far behind Vermont’s Brian Simmons, a two-time world champion and Francis’ only viable rival. Francis pitched ringers on 25 of his final 26 shoes to win what some call the greatest match in the sport’s history.” —

Though not really technically about luck, horseshoes are “lucky” and horseshoe throwing seems rad. We’d love something about the sport for HOBART 13! 

In Horseshoe Pit, the Best Ever Takes His Turn - NYTimes.com

Sep 7, 2011
#HO13 wishlist
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#Stand By Me #Vern #goocher #luck #HO13 wishlist
Sep 6, 201153 notes
#Press Your Luck #luck #no whammy #HO13 wishlist
“The Postman Always Rings Twice. That’s one of my favorite books. So much happens in those 112 pages. And it’s very precise. I’m becoming a great fan of plot. More and more.” —

Speaking of Brian Allen Carr, he’s the most recent in Ravi Mangla’s great ongoing “Recommended Reading” interview series. (And thanks, too, for the “holler at”, Brian!)

Recommended Reading: Brian Allen Carr

Sep 6, 2011
Amazon.com: Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America (9780817317539): B. J. Hollars: Books → amazon.com

Congrats to Hobart contributor B.J. Hollars, whose first book Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America releases today!


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Review of Short Bus by Brian Allen Carr | The Nervous Breakdown → thenervousbreakdown.com

Hobart contributor Brian Carr gets some review love for his terrific collection Short Bus over at The Nervous Breakdown.

Sep 6, 2011

monkfishjowls:

Amelia Gray has a great little story up today at Dear Navigator. It’s called Device. Here’s the first sentence, “The young inventor created a device that could predict the future within one tenth of a percent of accuracy.”

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#Robert Evans #The Kid Stays in the Picture #LUCK quotes
“When asked how he had made the transition to pitching so seamlessly, Cage stated that he had “learned the methods of the great priests of S’ahra-Sharn. A fiery hand of iron grasped my vitals and, in time, I learned the mechanics of the razor shuuto.” When informed that Greg Maddux, his teammate, also threw a variation of the Japanese shuuto pitch, Cage responded that Maddux might also be a novice in the S’ahra-Sharn practices.” —Excerpt from The Big Book of Forgotten Lunatics, Vol. 1 by Kevin Wilson
Sep 2, 2011
“If you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material.” —V.S. Naipaul (via vintageanchor)
Sep 2, 201138 notes
#V.S. Naipaul
Sep 1, 2011

August 2011

26 posts

Current Issue | Magazine | Tin House → tinhouse.com

Jaime Quatro’s vision at Tin House, ya’ll. Damn. Buy the issue, read the rest of “Caught Up.” Plus poems by Matthew Zapruder, Matthea Harvey, Matthew Rohrer (and that’s just the poets with the name Matt in their names); essays by Elissa Schappell and Emma Straub. Geez.

Aug 31, 2011
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#mary miller #BIG WORLD #High Life #first sentences
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#Tom Gauld #short stories #ha ha no
Douglas Watson Is Awarded the Inaugural BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize | BOA Blog → boaeditions.org

Doug Watson, tennis superstar and writer of prodigious talents (see: here), has won the Inaugural BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize! Big congrats to Doug!!!

Aug 29, 2011
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#Ha Jin
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#David Fincher #hw #film
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#hw
“They had no other family. All they had was Hobart.” —The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson. (pg. 193)
Aug 24, 20111 note
#family fang #Kevin Wilson #HOBART in lit
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