by Aaron Jacobs | May 14, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
Imagine the scene in that Florida hotel room in the hour after Seymour Glass rid himself of half of his skull. Or picture how Hulga managed to get out of the barn and make it home once Manly Pointer took off with her prosthetic leg. And what did he do with the leg,...
by Katrina Gray | May 11, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
In June 2004, I searched for 7 Eccles Street in Dublin. I never found it. I didn’t find it because it’s no longer there, the victim of nuns who extended a maternity hospital. I looked for the address because James Joyce made it famous in Ulysses, and...
by Sarah Malone | May 10, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
With stories whose endings are visible from the first sentence, or inferable from the length of web browser scrollbars, I don’t release my awareness of real time as I do with narratives long enough to settle into an illusion of merging with them. Instead I become...
by Mickey Laurence Cohen | May 3, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
I hate short stories. Hate to read them, not a big fan of writing them. I like novels, I like the feeling I’m entering an entirely new world, or creating one. The best novels can build their own vocabulary, even a new language altogether. Short stories are windows....
by Mike Maggio | May 2, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
The short story is the crystalline form of the novel; that is, it takes the essence of what makes a novel (character, plot, dramatic development) and condenses it into a form that is whole and pleasing. What the novelist accomplishes in two or three hundred pages, the...
