Michael Rowe

writer | latest: stories @TheFLReview @Missouri_Review @splitlipthemag, @The_Rumpus, essay @WeAreMel, @lithub repped by @LZats also blogging for @TrylonCinema

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I’ve been so consumed with dissertation work the last few months that I forgot to mention something else I’m happy to have out in the world: My story “One or Several Mothers” is in the fall issue of the Missouri Review. https://t.co/5pdJf4NuhB

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Wrote about Thomas Pynchon and then for some reason also Bill Clinton, Carl Jung, Harold Bloom, even Keanu Reeves https://t.co/4c1XsQ9X6l

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Wrote about C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed https://t.co/nLSeVqSL8A

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Started a blog called Notes from the Neogene, about literature, books, and the mysteries, naturally enough, of the neogene. Few things there, including a nonexistent post about Italo Calvino https://t.co/dU9IVdYNqX

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Things have changed, but I happened to do something I used to do, which is publish a story. Grateful to @barrelhouse for publishing my story about a mom trying to get her son to stop harassing Rod Stewart online https://t.co/ve1JYYLI7S

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Wrote about TRAIN TO BUSAN and its uncanny copy-pasted Hollywood blockbuster soul for my favorite movie theater @TrylonCinema https://t.co/ROCjOZUdFG

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@RPMirabella Aww, she sounds like a beautiful cat friend. I know these feelings and am truly sorry for your loss

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We used to have ancient prophecies in this country, now it’s just “your profile appeared in 6 searches this week”

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@mdbell79 I’m so sorry, that’s awful. I took FMLA to help my dad recently. That’s an absolutely essential option, and the idea that some individual with administrative power would make it difficult is infuriating. I hope it’s sorted out soon, and I hope you and your dad are alright

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Once again, I’m cleaning and packing up at my father’s house. I carried a large box downstairs, and something scratchy was rasping against my foot, inside my shoe. I deposited the box and reached down, only to pull from my shoe a small note that reads “Mike?”

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I wrote about the creepy stop-motion film LA CASA LOBO for @TrylonCinema (the premium movie theater) https://t.co/mfe1RDZJvJ

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Wrote about Sidney Lumet and David Mamet’s THE VERDICT for @TrylonCinema https://t.co/z4GwXeTTF4

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I’m enjoying this book, but I wish it were BEETHOVEN: HILARIOUS IMPRESSIONS BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES

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In her mirror-bottomed box on a pillow of such softness, she floated out the window

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Brushing my teeth before going to the dentist makes me feel like I’m trying to cover up a crime, hide a dead body, defraud an investor. “No they’re always clean, I never use them at all”

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@erikhane It feels like we’re seeing 2666 turn into a classic in real time. It’s been about 20 years from original release and 16 years from its English release. The Bolaño hype cycle can’t really account for its currency anymore. I wonder if same goes for those reading in Spanish

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I suppose I don’t post here anymore, but I do blog to amuse myself for @TrylonCinema in Minneapolis—best damn movie theater there is—and this time I wrote about Harvey Keitel etc. in Ridley Scott’s debut feature film, THE DUELLISTS https://t.co/Dr9NWcAe7d

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@Bill_Gerrard A beautiful remembrance. I only communicated with him here from time to time, but he was so clearly a kind, witty, and loving man. Sending love to you, your family, to David. May his memory be a blessing

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I wrote about THE VANISHING (1988), which is one of the best thrillers I’ve ever seen, for Trylon Cinema’s blog https://t.co/TjuoqJR7f1

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An ancient, provocative koan

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Sunset on the road in Indiana two nights ago