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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Third Pshares Single Published: Phoenix by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Our Pshares Singles eBook series allows us to publish long-form submissions every month in a format that is affordable and easily accessible. We’ve had a great response to our first two Pshares Singles, Timothy Schaffert’s “Lady of the Burlesque Ballet” … Continue reading
This Is How You Lose Her
This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz Riverhead, September 2012 224 pages $26.95 Full disclosure: I heart Junot Diaz. A lot. I’m not alone, of course. His previous efforts, Drown and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Drown, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, This Is How You Lose Her
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THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (with global characteristics) 6 (of 14)
Good morning. It’s a day for an air walk on that lit, lit sojourn. Coffee? Here’s the view above my tatami mat, one of Liu Zhen’s “Landscapes of the Mind,” a lacquer painting. Liu Zhen is a talented, and unusual, … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged City Univerisity, Daniel Liebskind, global characteristics, Hong Kong, Jess Row, Justin Hill, lit life, Liu Zhen, Still, that lit, Xu Xi
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Literary Boroughs #19: Kansas City, Missouri
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged Annie Fischer, Candice Millard, Christie Hodgen, Clancy Martin, David von Drehle, Evan S. Connell, Hadara Bar-Nadav, J. Malcolm Garcia, jazz, José Faus, Kansas City, Linda Rodriguez, Literary Boroughs, Matthew Eck, Michael Pritchett, Michelle Boisseau, Missouri, Philip Stephens, Shirley Christian, Wayne Miller, Whitney Terrell, Xanath Caraza
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#GurneyEssay – The Trending Topic that will Topple Kitten Videos
I want to claim that I have invented a new form of essay. It’s easy and fun and with the uptrending in retirement age demographicals in the USA regionality, it might just become the dominant form of essay writing in … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Guest Bloggers, gurney essay, medical, meme, youtube
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Sorry Please Thank You
Sorry Please Thank You Charles Yu Pantheon, July 2012 240 pages $24.95 Charles Yu is weird. It’s just one of those things you can tell after reading the stories from his most recent collection, Sorry Please Thank You. There’s a … Continue reading
Blurbese: “The First _____”
When Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was published, in 2010, the British Daily Telegraph called it “the first great American novel of the post-Obama era.” If that sounds oddly specific (not to mention premature), they at least had good reason for it: … Continue reading
THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (with global characteristics) 5 (of 14)
I used to live in Singapore. In ’94, just before my first book was released, a corporation moved me to this tropical, island city-state. It still feels like home whenever I fly into Changi at the eastern end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Agnes Lam, Don Lee, global characteristics, global literature, Kirpal Singh, lit life, Road to Singapore, Sascha Feinstein, that lit, Xu Xi
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Literary Boroughs #18: Nottingham, UK
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Boroughs
Tagged Arthur Piper, D. H. Lawrence, Éireann Lorsung, Graham Lester George, Gregory Woods, John Lucas, Jon McGregor, Literary Boroughs, literary community, Lord Byron, Matthew Welton, Megan Taylor, Neele Dellschaft, Nottingham, Sarah Jackson, United Kingdom, Wayne Burrows
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Patricia Hampl Reads at Emerson (October 4 @ 8:00)
Mark your calendars! Fall 2012 guest editor and award-winning author Patricia Hampl will visit Emerson to read from her work and introduce her all-essay issue of Ploughshares. This event is free and open to the public! WHEN: Thursday, October 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Ploughshares News
Tagged Fall 2012, guest editor, Patricia Hampl, reading
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