December 2012
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Which books moved me and what I think this strange... →
I Have Blinded Myself Writing This by Jess Stoner wins best title and Book That Made Me Cry and stare off into space thinking of it. It’s experiemental, beautiful, humane – let me just throw some more words till you decide to go investigate.
Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen is one of those rare collections – one that I cannot stop reading. Normally I struggle to find the energy for short...
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11 Favorite Small Press Reads of 2012 | HTMLGIANT →
Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen
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Two Poems in Hobart →
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“If you can stay light, and stay loose, and stay relaxed, you can play at the...”
– Bill Murray (via)
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prochain train: FAST MACHINE →
prochaintrain:
FAST MACHINE is short stories.
i’m always impressed by the way certain writers circle around the same ideas and themes and even words/phrases. repeating character names and repeating parts of scenes and so on. i think bolano does this a lot. and elizabeth ellen does this in these short…
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Not sure what to buy with your brand new ereader?... →
Also, if you got a new iPhone/iPad/iPad mini, check out the LitRagger app! You can read a preview of Patrick Somerville’s novella, “The Legend of Troy Cartwright,” from Hobart 14, and a bunch of other lit journal samples, all for free, and buy full issues for cheap!
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“I spend seven or eight hours… each time I try to write. Most of that time is...”
– Dave Eggers (via austinkleon)
This quote’s going around a lot, and I like it, but… who imagines writing on horseback? Camelback? Convertibles, windswept cliffs, lighthouses?
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How to properly say Australian cities. By an...
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Never really finish saying your word / never finish your syllable. Melbourne: Mel-bun or Mel-ben (without over emphasizing the bun/ben or the l in Mel) not Mel-born (We laugh at you if you say Mel-born) Sydney: Sid-knee but say it with a bit of a twang. Don’t stress the D. Perth: Pur-th. Simple. Hobart: Hoe - bart. Don’t stress the T though. Strangely enough, some...
Karen the Small Press Librarian: Best of the Small... →
2. Other Kinds by Dylan Nice (Short Flight/Long Drive at Hobart Press, 2012)
Other Kinds makes a short “best of” list. We’re obviously the most biased people ever, re: this, but it belongs on a lot more.
“Developing jokes as glacially as he does, Seinfeld says, allows for...”
– Jerry Seinfeld for NYT Magazine’s piece, “Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up.” (via huffpostcomedy)
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Fiction: "Luc Bustomanta" by Becky Tuch, published... →
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Love this sentence especially:
Me—twelve years old, hair in a high ponytail, gold hoops, lips red. Him—seventeen or eighteen, slow-walking, grown-man-smelling, blue eyes sharp, sharp, sharp.
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Open Letter to Frank Ocean
Dear Frank,
Just a quick, short note to say that, should you actually write a novel, we would gladly publish it. We publish pretty books and will design and work on it with you with the utmost love.
Sincerely, Aaron & Elizabeth Short Flight / Long Drive Books
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A Literary Flyover | Tin House →
Midwest Must Reads:
There’s also Matt Bell, author of the forthcoming In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods.Bell is a meticulous writer and you can see the care of his work in everything he publishes. His story, “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed,” is one I regularly read and teach because it is so formally interesting—an index that still tells a compelling, deeply...
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Albert Brooks So after the bit I sit down at the panel, and Jack Benny was on. There was always that last two minutes where Johnny was asking people, “Thank you for coming—what do you have coming up?” And during the last commercial Jack Benny leaned over to Johnny Carson and said, “When we get back, ask me where I’m going to be, will you?” So they came back. Johnny said, “I want to thank Albert....
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