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Queering Home: An Interview with Carter Sickels

by Megan Kruse

…the thriving downtown art scene. In the mid-80s, video cameras were still new and becoming very popular. At every holiday, there was always some dad or uncle carrying a big VHS camera on his shoulder, trying to get Grandma or a nephew to wave at the camera. The mobility and affordability of the video camera also gave artists access to another medium, and many queer artists in particular turned to video as a way to document their lives and experie…


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[Poetry for Prosers] Recommended Reads from 2010

by Katie Umans

…being a man), to name just a few. Not unlike Shakespeare’s Caliban, Dogg becomes a kind of litmus test of humanity’s ability to be kind as it explores its own power to judge and dictate another’s fate. Emanuel has embraced poetry’s devices–its bizarre twists, its metaphors, its music, its puns and wordplay–and yet she has written a book that might well transcend poetry and appeal to many differently tuned minds, simply because of how go-for-broke…


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Type type type: A Conversation with Mimi Smartypants

by Margaret Lazarus Dean

…the book is in serious trouble at all. There are problems with publishing companies combining and strangling out smaller presses, and don’t even get me started on the small-bookstore problem, but people really seem to still read quite a bit. Even if I’m naive and it’s only a small segment of the population who reads like crazy, it appears to be a vocal and fairly powerful segment, anyway. I think books and blogs are different reading experiences…


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The Pure Gold Baby, by Margaret Drabble

by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

…oving Anna, and reckoning with societal attitudes toward disability, has become Jess’s passion. Drabble was once criticized by John Updike in a 1976 review in the New Yorker for being too dependent on coincidence, but isn’t that how life works? Events and coincidences can have transformative consequences. Drabble addresses this very topic just two years later, speaking with Barbara Milton in the Fall-Winter 1978 issue of the Paris Review. Of the r…


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Against Cleverness

by Brad Felver

…For example, Jack Boughton, the center of gravity in Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), is the tortured prodigal son who returns to Iowa after years away. He tries to explain his absence to his sister Glory: “When Mama died I’d been out of jail for a couple days. So I could have come home. Strictly speaking. But it takes a while to shake that off, you know. Wash it off. To feel you could blend in with the P…


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Gatsby: The Video Game

by Celeste Ng

…lete unique mini-games: test your memory, put yourself in the author’s seat, or solve portrait puzzles.” Here’s a screenshot, complete with some landmarks from the novel: Gatsby, credit: I-play I-Play offers a free trial version of the game for download (Windows only). If you try it out, let us know what you think. And if epic poetry—and fighting video games— are more your speed, there’s always this….


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Learned Behaviors: Notes on Narrative and Belonging

by M. Allen Cunningham

…e End Times in current events (material cribbed from The 700 Club), or the latest archeological efforts to pinpoint the final dry-dock of Noah’s Ark. I scrutinized all my teachers (was Mrs. Natenkemper a Christian?). At every opportunity I dragged a friend to church. Most significantly, every time my sinful nature got the better of me (that is, daily), I condemned myself. Each instance of lying or lust, each “curse word” or mere taint of doubt in…


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A Parisian Reliquary: An Interview with Elena Mauli Shapiro

by Steven Wingate

…ons—a fact that you share with the Trevor Stratton character. How did this commonality come into play as you rendered Trevor? And what about Josianne, the departmental secretary who serves as the gatekeeper to the mystery of the reliquary? At what point did she enter your writing process, and how did working with her character compare to working with Trevor and Louise? Image Credit: Flickr-Twistiti While I was writing, Trevor was my imp. He was th…


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Journal of the Week: NANO Fiction

by Carolyn Gan

…st 31; for full guidelines, see the contest webpage. As NANO unveils their new website, go online to see back issues for the first time in eReader formats, for only $2 a piece. And for the Houston readers, NANO is hosting a few events this summer, including a fundraiser at a local art space called The Joanna on August 26. (More details will be posted here.) As a special bonus to readers of Fiction Writers Review, we’ll be giving away three free su…


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Bringing the News: An Interview with Richard Ford

by Travis Holland

…to what the characters were doing. They were background—even, as in the Bascombe books, New Jersey becomes a subject of Frank’s musings. When in Independence Day, Frank says, “place means nothing,” I was (and he was) trying to say something along the lines of Auden’s famous, and famously misused, remark about poetry. It’s not that it’s not important. It is important. But its importance is subtle and probably less pronounced and maybe less weighty…




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