Tag: literary fiction
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November 10, 2009 10:07 PM EST --
Just sayin', it pays to be choosy these days. Lots of people want you to read their book, but you want to read something good, which their book probably is not.
A few ideas for books that have been . . .
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November 03, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Stones in Her Pockets
For
Virginia Woolf [1]
The waters of Crescent Lake are aflame with the rays . . .
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July 11, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
Life, as we know it
I was born in exile, the quintessential misplaced zygote.
I will die in diaspora.
The dirt under my feet isn't mine, borrowed. I take a fistful, . . .
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October 14, 2007 01:22 AM EDT --
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth,
I come not to send peace but a sword.
Matthew 10:34
Late spring . . .
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October 10, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
The modern novel has been killed, according to critic Dale Peck, in his essay collection aptly entitled Hatchet jobs. The culprits: James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, along with their followers. . . .
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July 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
Here's how it's done, kids.
Life's Rowboat
Copyright © 1997-2008 Karl C Klein. All rights reserved
"I was reading about this cave." Caitlin stared with calculating, innocent . . .
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July 17, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
Note: Understand if someone gives you advice and can't explain it, likely they're aping something they read in a book or even more likely, something they read on a blog.
Literary fiction/social . . .
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December 21, 2007 10:55 PM EST --
Hello everyone.
I just wanted to let you know that my short story, "Stones in Her Pockets," which I posted here on Gather several months ago, is going to appear in Predicate , . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:14 AM EST --
The Dew Breaker byEdwidge Danticat.
Let me preface this by saying that Edwidge Danticatis one of my favorite writers, writing my favorite kind of fiction. Literaryfiction where characters . . .
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July 17, 2009 03:39 AM EDT --
The Short Story
Mr. Collings stood over the freshmen English class. Fifty-six hands busied, retrieving the homework. My head swam, dull from a night far too late and full of all the wrong things. . . .
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November 25, 2009 06:53 PM EST --
Stop right there, Pilgrim.
This is not a Come on, Jesus! Kick me through the goal post of life , story. Pseudo-biographical, this story is meant as an esoteric, existential farce, . . .
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November 20, 2009 05:04 AM EST --
"I celebrate myself, And what I assmue you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
Walt Whitman
Poetry across the landscape can be just about anything and take . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:57 AM EDT --
I was a stranger in a strange land poverty coming on us overnight changing addresses and schools. I'd met Virginia by happenstance three weeks before. She was a bona fide . . .
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August 24, 2008 05:32 AM EDT --
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any actual . . .
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September 06, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
After reading a brief recommendation in People Magazine, I set off in search of Don't You Forget About Me. My local Borders did not have the book in stock, but two other stores within equal driving . . .
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July 18, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Timothy Leary. If you don't know who that is, ask your mother.
I cover a lot of ground. 1)defaulting 2)modifiers 3)blonde/blond 4)OK/okay . . .
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October 19, 2009 02:54 AM EDT --
Personally, I've never understood the difference between a pencil applied to a napkin, a diary, a journal or a text file recorded digitally within the computer.
Then again, I went to night school . . .
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June 06, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
I plan to get a good start on a novel before summer's over. I'm waiting til after vacation to start, though, because I know I'll be derailed by MIL drama. What are your writing goals and what's . . .
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December 21, 2007 10:36 PM EST --
CHAPTER ONE
I remembered Della.
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December 31, 2007 01:45 AM EST --
Dr. Louise Fuller exits her house on Bristol Way promptly at three, the bells of St. Michael's tolling the hour as she makes a right at the corner and strides down the sidewalk. It will take her . . .
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