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short story excerpt
I’m writing a short story in the form of an interview. It’s fiction. Here’s an excerpt:
Much of your work is built around juxtapositions, a classic example being the story “C-130.” How did this style evolve?
My earliest story attempts were rip-offs of Amy Hempel. I’d take her stories and then rewrite them using different settings, [...]
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what i did for the first 40 minutes on a Saturday morning after an earthquake that i didn’t know about
woke up around 9. made coffee. put on deerhunter playlist. washed dishes. thought about how deerhunter was from marietta. felt like i wasn’t fully awake. worked on the computer some. remembered lau told me to wake her up at 9:15. went to wake her up and saw her in bed nursing layla. went back to [...]
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poem to be anthologized in book about the holy land ’situation’
just received an email saying one of my poems, ‘memories of the wailing wall’ is going to be anthologized in a book with the working title before god closes his hand: poets respond to the holy land ’situation.’
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what i did on a Sunday up until dinner
Woke up around 9. Made coffee. Wrote for at least an hour. Heard the girls yell “papa frita.” Got back in bed with them.¹ Told them I had to work 30 minutes more. Started working on remix of TV show idea. Felt anxious. Distracted myself with internet literary magazines. Read about an HBO show called [...]
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fragments from Segundo’s emails
These are unedited excerpts of recent emails from Segundo who does not want any internet ‘presence’ but who is a bro I love and miss and whose writing I just want to share anyway:
-just got back from the pueblito (now city) where my pops grew up–went with my last 2 uncles-94 and 87–the last of [...]
notes on walking the land with Brisa
After dinner, walking the land with Brisa. Clearing sky after thunderstorm. Sunset flaring off Piltriquitron and across Andes now. You never lose your bearings here.
We’re on a hunt for palitos. Little sticks. I want to make a couple stakes and pound them through the fence where the dogs crawl under. This morning I couldn’t find [...]
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announcing placefinding blog
After yesterday’s post about placefinding, along with the immediate response I decided to cook up a really simple blog which you can find here: Placefinding.wordpress.com. The premise is really simple-it will explore the way people connect and reconnect to place via their lifestyles, writing, art, and other expressions as well as just placefinding as an [...]
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