Peter Witte

Writer. Picture Maker.

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

Thanks, Aaron, and the entire @havehadhavehad team for creating a platform for oddball pieces of writing! Honored to have my words grace this site again! Thanks for reading!

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"I know what a good gardener looks like because my father, whom I adored, was a good gardener, as was his father, my grandfather, or so I have heard. I never did get to know my grandfather."

@Peter_H_Witte is so good at looking at the world so closely
https://t.co/8RCVhhRdDa

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

I had a great time conducting an interview with Maggie Mull about her short story in @NERweb. We discussed defamiliarization, authenticity, and humor, among other things. Check it out on NER's website. (Her story is published in the latest issue!)
https://t.co/efCerIjkvj

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Fun with one-line pencil drawing.

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Recent drawing…

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Andre Aciman’s (@aaciman) Call Me By Your Name is a perfect book. WOW! Just finished it this afternoon and had to sit and hold onto it a bit before anything else.

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A partial view of an oil painting work in progress.

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Would anyone help me to know what this says? Or know a way I might translate these Chinese characters to English? Thanks!

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Enjoying oil painting again! Here is a close up of a work in progress….

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Two men and a lady. Scratch paper fun.

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If you are looking for an incredible film—and who isn’t, really?—look no further than On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni.

https://t.co/mkRbCwTKFa

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This is such a great interview. I love how little De Niro says.

https://t.co/bcjZIV689c

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“I understand absolutely nothing,” replied the Nose. “Make yourself…clear.”

“My dear sir,” said Kovalyov with a sense of…dignity, “I don’t know how to interpret your words…The whole thing seems to me…obvious…After all, you are my nose!”

-from Gogol’s “The Nose”

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

@MatthewSitman A River Runs through It. What a perfect book! This reader is sure to be filled with awesomeness.

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For the morning crowd...

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Literature & short story lovers: recently I was paid for a story published in Short Story, Long. To support the journal, I want to put the $ back into it by giving away a bunch of monthly subscriptions. Interested? DM me w/your email address!
https://t.co/gjZP8Tza6q

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

Literature & short story lovers: recently I was paid for a story published in Short Story, Long. To support the journal, I want to put the $ back into it by giving away a bunch of monthly subscriptions. Interested? DM me w/your email address!
https://t.co/gjZP8Tza6q

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

Darius Garland was not the mysterious man in my story, "The Free Throw Shooter." 😆
https://t.co/JfR28j6WSI

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90% FT SHOOTER DARIUS GARLAND MISSES BACK-TO-BACK FREE THROWS WITH A CHANCE TO WIN IT 😱

ROCKETS SURVIVE 😮

[Peter Witte @Peter_H_Witte]

I'm thrilled to share my story, "The Free Throw Shooter," published on Short Story, Long by the greatest of editors, @Aaron__Burch, with illustrations I LOVE by the excellent @JiksunCheung!

I hope you read it and if you do I hope you like it.

https://t.co/JfR28j6WSI

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I waited in line for 100 minutes (no exaggeration!) to see the @ngadc exhibition Paris, 1874: The Impressionist Moment. It was worth it, if only to see Monet’s Impression, Sunrise. Altogether, though, so many awesome pieces, an excellent exhibit of that momentous occasion.

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And for my most recent drawing…