An Italian magazine called Pangea just discovered me. Fun to read. I have the "stigmata of a guru," a messianic face, a wolf-spirit behind my eyes. I shouldn't make jokes. It's nice to be mythologized in another language.
Ten Short Stories That Were Critical to My Development as a Short Story Writer:
1. "Why I Decide to Kill Myself and Other Jokes" - Douglas Glover
2. "The Artist of the Beautiful" - Nathanial Hawthorne
3. "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" - Alice Munro
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“In a way, all comedy is rebellion.”
—William Giraldi analyzes literary comedy and the ethos of the Southern novel in Douglas Glover’s “The South Will Rise at Noon.” This piece appears in our Fall 2025 Arts & Culture Issue, available now.
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“so much of the appeal of the South is the adventure of transgression.” The Oxford American's take on my novel The South Will Rise at Noon.
https://t.co/9JgHJaAc1n
Happy birthday John Clare! He’ll feature in my Saturday reading with Jo Clement at @LeftBankLeeds to the theme‘Unsung and Unsettled’ as I’m also looking at unsettled minds. He was keen on sonnets and this one is from my New and Selected Poems which will be on sale there.
and here's what's coming in July ... fiction from @octopus_grigori, Chris Kohler, @claresitafisher, Douglas Glover, and Ian Farnes; @garbagemagician interviews Misha Honcharenko; @monalisavitti on Egon Schiele; and poetry from Roque Dalton (@7StoriesPress)...
On ChatGPT and writing by @dg_pro_se, my wife's writing professor—"My first discovery was that the machine might actually be too human to be interesting." https://t.co/JnM4iEMw12
@JUNCTIONREADS @robmclennanblog Apologies for not seeing this until today. I am not on Twitter so much. But this was delightful to come across this afternoon. Thank you!