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Dec.08.2009 And To That End Obituaries tell nice, neat little narratives about each of our lives. I have been thinking about them a lot, since the death of my grandmother a few weeks ago. In them, there is probably information about our parents, where we were born, where we worked and for how long, our children or...	Oct.17.2009 "Journaling" vs. The Writer's Log or on Making the Journal Dangerous Diary Cows by Ronald Koertge Got up early, waited for the farmer He hooked us all to the machines as usual. Typical trip to the pasture, typical day grazing and ruminating. About 5:00 back to the machines. What relief! Listened to the radio during dinner. Lights out at 7:00. More tomorrow...
Jun.20.2009 A Land Where There Weren't Any Clouds:The Radical Vision of Prose Fiction Recently, I finished editing the fiction section of a well-known literary magazine. I had a goal in mind---to mix traditional narrative with more experimental form. After a while--and especially after editing--I realized I was trying to follow what the late W.G. Sebald called “prose fiction”--i.e...	May.16.2009 Hello, said Maura Well I've encountered my first issue with, dare I say, the novel, I wanted to say ''piece'' but instead I forced my fingers to form the word, novel, on the keyboard. Long cleansing breath follows. You see I've been avoiding it thus far, the dreaded dialogue and now feel obligated into having...
Apr.29.2009 Remainder by Tom McCarthy--art informs literature Remainder, by TomMcCarthy, a British writer and artist, is a great reminder of how writing interacts with the world of art and its concern with space. Remainder, told in the first person, is a book about a man with amnesia who--as a result of an accident--gets over 8 million pounds as...	Mar.09.2009 New Story Published Hey, I have a new story on the Narrative Magazine website called Night Dreams. Check it out at: www.Narrative Magazine.com
Feb.28.2009 Emily's Story I want you to meet Emily. I wish you could meet Emily. I met her standing in line at the pharmacy counter at Walgreen's #3848, 3300 Center Street, Deer Park, Texas. It was a long line at the end of a long day. People weren't happy. We were all hurting; we were all sniveling. We wanted drugs, not...	Jan.22.2009 Ars Poetica My aim in the poems is to catch the reader in an erotics of sound, story, and feeling; the web that stretches between the poles of lyric and narrative. I look for surprises, wait for images to leap up out of the quotidian, like fish breaking the surface of the poem at its ruptures of juxtaposition...
Jan.21.2009 Word Fun I subscribe to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day. Sometimes they're everyday words. Sometimes they're words I know but don't use often, and they'll trigger a "Good word, I should remember to use it once in a while." Sometimes I haven't heard of them, but I can figure them out (those years...	Jan.05.2009 Some Unfinished pieces Well I feel pretty much guilty for not getting around to writing as much as before , but I thought instead of having so many unfinished pieces laying around in the computer i’d put them all in one blog and may be the comments I ’d get back would help me finish them off ... very sorry for the...

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