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Sometimes life is surprising and you find that you have an opportunity to write about cannibals for Texas Monthly magazine. Or at least that’s what happened to me. My report on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is up over here.
Winner of the National Book Award
“i have been getting lots of rejection slips — sometimes it seems like i am getting more rejections than the number of submissions i have made.” – Denis Johnson, letter to his family in 1969
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Epiphanies
“She’d had an image of one of those seaside sort of places that you read about in novels, where shy British people went and fell in love and had epiphanies.” – Dan Chaon, Await Your Reply
Lem Walker, Space Surgeon
“I picked up Lem Walker, Space Surgeon and read that throughout the graduation ceremonies on Altair IV, the skies were troubled with positron storms.” – Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
War Dances
Sherman Alexie’s latest story gets a 50 in the New Yorker short story point system – for death and deadly(?) disease – and yet it’s not a typical New Yorker story at all and you should probably read it.
New Yorker fiction point system
Here’s a little game I’ve invented to make reading short stories in the New Yorker worthwhile. If the story contains . . . 1. Cancer or other deadly disease, score 25 points. 2. Death, score 25 points. 3. Divorce/separation/affair, score 25 points 4. Unhappy middle-aged white people, score 25 points. BONUS POINTS: Score 10 points [...]
One-star reviews
Some highlights from Amazon reviewers on a few classics: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad “This book makes no sence. If you can understand this book than you are a genus.” The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne “HESTER PRYNNE IS A CHEAP FLOOZY!!! I have no idea why people can’t understand this point.” Pride and Prejudice, Jane [...]
All-time most fascinating writer hair
Henrik Ibsen
Portrait of the artist
Descriptions of different writers from a book of short biographies: Sexually ambiguous dandy Desperate and broke Died from inhalation of charcoal fumes Grandson of a serf A mediocre student A dedicated womanizer Severe persecution mania Was never heard from again Seal hunter Drank heavily A Holy Roller preacher Insecure Moody Alcoholic Egotistical Bedeviled by personal [...]
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