My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #chapbook#fiction#bottlecappress
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“Lots of times you can’t hear a writer’s voice in her writing. But it’s true she’s a corner of the whole town, a whipping look at the sky and a bit of puttering down the sun-lit road.”
— Grace Paley
#writing#fiction
“So much of writing seems to be indulging different sides of your personality around a topic or a theme, watching them collaborate—or letting them jockey for prominence, seeing who comes out on top.”
-- Sharon Olds
“In autumn, in anticipation of the oncoming cold season, the beasts’ bodies were covered with a shiny, golden coat of fur.” Read from Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, translated by Philip Gabriel.
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Bruno Schulz's story, "The Republic of Dreams", is unforgettable. So I made a PDF copy of it (as translated by Walter Ardnt), and linked it at the bottom of this post. With a constellation of annotations. For anyone. Anywhere. World literature forever.
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“Things here are going from bad to worse.” Read from Juan Rulfo’s story collection The Burning Plain, translated by Douglas Weatherford.
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"I really love books that are kind of thin, but sort of heavy. Thin but incredibly intense. Books that seem like they took 10 years to write, but are almost like the notes for a book that is actually impossible."
- Kate Zambreno
"The Singularity is a slim novel of under 130 pages, but the ideas it explores spill beyond its covers and are perhaps much more relevant today than when it was originally published."
@Broke_Bookworm reviews Dino Buzzati's prescient sci-fi classic for @strangehorizons
At @Polygon, they've posted Karen Joy Fowler's intro to the new edition of Annihilation. "W/ [these novels] VanderMeer crafted the definitive work of climate change speculative fiction... that married weird fic & eco-horror for an unforgettable experience" https://t.co/tCl4Qrd1I9
BLOOD TEST by Charles Baxter is coming this fall, available 10/22! Follow Brock Hobson, a divorced dad, as his life gets turned upside down by a medical test predicting he has a predisposition to murder.
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[Bio] Stephen Delaney writes short fiction, craft articles, and book reviews. His most recent story, “Hauntings (A Sutured Tale),” appeared in @miracle_monocle. @smallestwords (#932)