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Wake Up, Life is Transient: An Interview with Katharine Dion

by Alice Miller

…e time. On the face of the drum is what I think is one of the most simple, compelling poems that I’ve come across. The lines are: Wake up life is transient swiftly passing be aware the great matter don’t waste time. When you hear this wooden drum in the temple, it’s a really loud crack. It’s a drum that might wake you up in the morning if you are still sleeping. If you actually get to play the drum, it cracks through your whole body. It’s ear-spli…


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Creative Writing and the University: an Interview with Mark McGurl

by Polly Stewart

…avid Foster Wallace to Henry James—they have a certain kind of syntactical complexity in common—but Jamesian prose has not been by any stretch of the imagination the dominant mode. However, James was an absolutely crucial figure in literary historical terms because of how he thought about the vocation of the novelist. He was not the first, but certainly the most prominent American writer who insisted that the novelist is an artist. As obvious as t…


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recommended reading on Oscars Day

by Anne Stameshkin

…s Swarup, discussing Simon Beaufoy’s film adaptation of his novel; a thoughtful piece from Garth Risk Hallberg on Revolutionary Road–the book, the film adaptation, and why the latter might not be up for more gold statues; a review of Milk from the New York Review of Books; BookFox’s critique of the adaptation of “New Boy,”one of the live-action short film contenders (FYI, you can download any of the short film nominees on iTunes); a piece from the…


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FWR's latest features

by Anne Stameshkin

…: Mark Pringle From now on, I’m going to announce here when we’ve posted a new review, interview, or essay to the site. For those of you who usually just read the blog, please stop by and check out our most recent features: (1) FWR’s first foray into erotica comes from our Canadian correspondent and Black Heart Magazine‘s editor-in-chief Laura Roberts, who spices things up with a review of Best Sex Writing 2009 by Rachel Kramer Bussel. (2) Contrib…


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The Kismet of the Literary Web: An Interview with John Warner, Part II

by Philip Graham

…s mouth (John is now working on the screenplay for the movie version). His latest work of fiction is Tough Day for the Army, just out from Louisiana State University Press, a collection of structurally sophisticated and deeply felt short stories that balance empathy and humor with a clear-eyed look at our human foibles. It’s already creating a buzz, with a number of terrific initial reviews, including a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly: Warner…


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How I Learned to Love Ben Lerner

by Jennifer Audette

…0:04. Two other locals had had him already; they’d left their marks on the comment sheet provided in the back. Someone had circled 3 for Poor and scrawled: what’s the point? Someone else rated him a 9 for Terrific; couldn’t put it down, followed by the non-sequitur: Mr. Frost is a great poet. 10:04 is self-referential metafiction. To increase the eye-rolling factor, the protagonist is a Brooklyn-based poet/novelist, Ben, who’s just gotten a three-…


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Messy Experiments, Elegant Solutions

by Celeste Ng

…d’s face, leading him to say, “It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a sheet of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.” Maybe, he realized, they had the layout of the atom all wrong. (They did.) So when the unexpected happens, as a scientist you perk up in delight. The universe has surprised you. You poke and prod a little further: Okay, so what if I mix THESE two things? What if I change this other part of the gene? You draw up a new scena…


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Messy Experiments, Elegant Solutions

by Celeste Ng

…d’s face, leading him to say, “It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a sheet of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.” Maybe, he realized, they had the layout of the atom all wrong. (They did.) So when the unexpected happens, as a scientist you perk up in delight. The universe has surprised you. You poke and prod a little further: Okay, so what if I mix THESE two things? What if I change this other part of the gene? You draw up a new scena…


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The Problem of the Author: On Not Reading Autobiography into the Writing of Andre Dubus

by Joshua Bodwell

…he edges of his mouth. Marion Ettlinger’s photo of Carver, from http://www.nancykiefer.com/ I remember thinking, “How could this guy know so much about these characters?” I was sixteen, and still naively believed that the narrator of every first-person story must be the author himself. Right? I mean, I was writing self-absorbed, autobiographical poems and stories every day. Wasn’t everyone else? But back then I had no idea of the difference be…


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The Dead Thing on the Porch is the Tooth Fairy: An Interview with Ken Wheaton

by Richard Fulco

…oduce a substantial body of work. Ken Wheaton, author of three novels, his latest being Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears (Open Road Media), squarely falls into the last category. As Managing Editor at Advertising Age, Ken Wheaton once had aspirations of being an Air Force pilot, but his eyesight wasn’t quite as sharp as it should be, and so that didn’t work out. Wheaton then turned his attention to Marine Biology; however, his dismal math skills were…




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