Robert Boucheron

Short stories and essays in Alabama Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Fiction International, Literary Heist, Saturday Evening Post.

[Robert Boucheron @rboucheron]

Now at Bluesky under the name Robert Boucheron

[Robert Boucheron @rboucheron]

Rivanna Review, Issue 14, is laid out and proofread once. Another proofreading, and it will go to the printer for December 1 publication. Five stories, five essays, six book reviews, and as always, the News from Hapsburg. To get a copy, visit https://t.co/ThnWLlhveB

[Robert Boucheron @rboucheron]

@lesliepwriter A long passage in italics, like a long passage in parentheses, or a long aside or footnote, makes me ask if the writer is in control of her material. Maybe the passage can be omitted, or maybe it can be integrated into the main argument or narrative.

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@lesliepwriter As an editor, I often see bad titles attached to good essays and stories. When I suggest other titles, the author usually agrees.

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@lesliepwriter One character at the table is suddenly seized by an epileptic fit or a case of the willies. The table begins to vibrate, as if in an earthquake, throwing everyone into confusion. A new person enters and accuses the others of secretly plotting against him/her.

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@lesliepwriter As a teenager, I played the original cast recording over and over and unwittingly memorized all the lyrics.

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Rivanna Review, Issue 13 is available by subscription or free PDF via email - visit https://t.co/ThnWLlhveB. Issue 14 is open to new stories, essays, and art until November 1.

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Rivanna Review, Issue 13 is here! Fresh fiction includes a novel excerpt by Beth Ford. Essays include McCormick Observatory by Josh Urban. Book reviews, of course, and News from Hapsburg. Subscribe to paper, or get a free PDF by email, [email protected]

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View from the window this morning!
#Darjeeling #Kanchenjunga

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@lesliepwriter I believe I am capable of love, though I write literary fiction, but who is worthy of this rare gift?

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Rivanna Review, Issue 13 is in the mail, and some have already received their copy. You can too! To know how, visit https://t.co/ThnWLlhveB

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For the last week of summer, the perfect beach read, https://t.co/ThnWLlhveB

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@emeek Both are correct, but I prefer the long drawn out, open-ended, spacious one.

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The past few nights, I read Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson (pictured) Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. Francis Grierson is in there, a mysterious figure who was a piano performer in Europe and the author of several books, one on Paris luminaries of his day.

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Happy Friday! That is all the news.

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You can read Rivanna Review the old-fashioned way, in print four times a year. Or you can get a PDF subscription. Email [email protected]

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Over the weekend, I read some stories by John O'Hara. They hold their own with stories by Cheever, Fitzgerald, and Updike. "The Doctor's Son," about the influenza epidemic of 1918, had eerie overtones of the pandemic a century later.

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The Vindicator, the weekly newspaper in Hapsburg, Virginia, reports events exactly as they happened. You can read the real news in https://t.co/ThnWLlhveB

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@DodddWhite Amen

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2nd Act Books on Main Street in Charlottesville will again host a publication party for Rivanna Review, Issue 13 on August 31, 5-6 PM. https://t.co/ThnWLli349