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A New Take On The Gothic Novel
Posted on January 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsBrian McGreevy recently sold his first novel “Hemlock Grove,” a revisionist gothic which explores the nature of monstrosity. McGreevy, who shows proper disdain for the supernatural teen craze led by the... -
On Writing: The Hunchers, the Librarians and War
Posted on January 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe enduring conceptions of what we nowadays call the “writing process” come from two camps: the Ugly Hunchers and the Mincing Librarians. Hunchers are characterized not only by their grotesque... -
Adventures of a Young Man: The First Good-Bye
Posted on January 19, 2011 | No Comments“Your children are not your children. They come not from you but through you for they are but the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.” – Gibran Ma... -
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Annie Proulx & The Gourds
Posted on January 10, 2011 | 3 Comments[caption id="attachment_8440" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Annie Proulx. Photo by Gus Powell."]
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My Morning Light: a short story about Paris & Revenge. Part 4.
Posted on September 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsAfter almost fifty years of marriage, I didn’t even leave a casserole for Sterling in the freezer, just a note, that’s all. I took family photos with me, but none... -
My Morning Light: A Short Story about Paris & Revenge. Part 3.
Posted on August 30, 2010 | 1 CommentSterling’s body seemed to get stronger and stronger as if to mock my own. But I was the one to prompt him about a hunting trip he’d planned with his... -
Requiem for Reality
Posted on August 23, 2010 | No CommentsEmerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth... -
My Morning Light: a short story about Paris and Revenge. Part 2.
Posted on August 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhen Ethel and I were girls, our parents always dressed us in matching clothes and gave us matching toys. For our birthday one year–we must’ve been seven or eight–my Grandmother Adeline gave Ethel a yellow ribbon and me a pink one. It was the first time that I could remember being given something that was a little bit different than Ethel’s and I was delighted.
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My Morning Light: a short story about Paris and Revenge. Part 1.
Posted on August 19, 2010 | No CommentsSterling was never the kindest husband, but he was faithful to me those fifty years. At least I always believed he was. In all the time we were together, I... -
Fiction’s Frilliest Genre Gets Real(er)
Posted on August 11, 2010 | 3 CommentsNote: A version of this article was originally published in the San Antonio Current in 2002, and was reprinted in the Detroit Metro Times in 2003. — She gasped as...