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Apr.21.2011
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Miranda Magazine presents a novella titled Restore. This novella is a collaboration between a fiction writer, Michael Brien and visual artist Charlie Lemay. Michael Brien presents this unique collaboration. The hope is that it will inspire other writers to collaborate and connect with creative...
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Apr.21.2011
Miranda Magazine presents a novella titled Restore. This novella is a collaboration between a fiction writer, Michael Brien and visual artist Charlie Lemay. Michael Brien presents this unique collaboration. The hope is that it will inspire other writers to collaborate and connect with creative...
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Apr.21.2011
Miranda Lit Mag is reviewing novels now. Miranda Lit Mag is an international e-zine and print magazine focusing on long fiction, the art of story telling, and the pedagogy of the craft. We would like to expand our book reviews and possibly author inteviews. Please feel free to inquire with us at...
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Jan.03.2011
Miranda Literary Magazine Presents:
Y2K – The Big Nothing
Happy New Year! It’s 2011. Next year it will be 2012, and while we here at Miranda firmly believe that the Mayans stopped their calendar on December 21, 2012 because they just kind of got lazy, we have decided to quell...
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Feb.03.2010
Anyone who has been through the novel writing process understands the complexities of the task. It is simply impossible for writers to keep all the layers, story lines, plots, and other elements in their heads. Some people make elaborate diagrams, use white boards, long outlines, and other...
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Feb.03.2010
Anyone who has been through the novel writing process understands the complexities of the task. It is simply impossible for writers to keep all the layers, story lines, plots, and other elements in their heads. Some people make elaborate diagrams, use white boards, long outlines, and other...
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Aug.21.2009
Readers and writers have a common problem – too many books. When news came out that Kindle redacted Orwell titles from their units without warning made me angry. One blogger suggested it was a kin to a Barnes & Noble employee breaking into your house and taking the book your reading and...
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Aug.19.2009
We all have them, dreams that haunt us, suggest things, and change the way we see the real world. My mentor in graduate school suggested that reading about people's dreams is a waste of time. Dreams are very personal and the interconnections often don't translate into good prose (maybe good poetry...
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Aug.09.2009
I am crazy about Japanese books. It started way back with Yukio Mishima and the Sea of Fertility Cycle with begins with the brilliant Spring Snow. I've read Murakami and his work, and some of the classic Japanese authors like Kawabata and Ogai. I have also some contemporary writers like the...
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Aug.06.2009
2008 / Hybrid Publishers / paper 232p. / $25.00
How do we define our history and where does our mythology come from? And the Rat Laughed is a stunning experiment of ideas, myth, history, and memory. The story is based on how we connect our past to the present and carry it forward into the future....
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About Ron
Ron Samul is a graduate writing mentor at Western Connecticut State University and college writing instructor. He holds a BA in English and an MFA in Professional Writing. He is the publisher of Skinny Toe Press and Miranda Literary Magazine. He has been a...
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Ron’s Favorite Books
Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Pale Horse Pale Rider, Dictionary of the Khazars, The Boy on the Bus, Shipwrecks.
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