Suspend Your Disbelief

Search Results: New JN0-281 Test Blueprint Latest JN0-281 Dumps Sheet JN0-281 Brain Exam Download JN0-281 for free by simply entering wwwpdfvcecom website Official JN0-281 Practice Test

Reviews |

The Collectors, by Matt Bell

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…fe is impacted by the flutter of the world and the rhythm of life: internet poker, minor infidelity, fights over mail-order seedlings, hurricanes, and a series of mysterious xs appearing on her house. – The Collectors is currently sold out, but you can download a digital copy from Caketrain for free (yes, free!) here. – The next deadline for Caketrain’s annual chapbook contest is October 1. This year the genre is poetry, and the manuscripts will b…


Essays |

The Copernican Author: On Point of View, Ptolemaic Characters, and Useful Unknowing

by Michael Byers

…otivations, or as though he wants to suggest that for Anna, matters have become complicated, that her motivations have become uncertain even to herself. Maybe she fears her plan is actually going to work – and then what? Maybe she’s afraid of her feelings for Gurov, and runs from them. Or maybe Chekhov wants to cover his tracks, to introduce uncertainty in us; maybe he fears we’re beginning to see through his mechanisms. The State Drama Theatre of…


Interviews |

Following the Path: A Conversation with Janet Peery

by Mary Westbrook

…s of plants. When, in the evolution of a story, does that precise language come? Sometimes, a word will come and I’ll just write a sentence to hold it. In “The Waco Wego,” the reason all those names are in there is that I had recently learned the Latin name for Goatsbeard. “I gotta use this in a story,” I thought. Maybe that’s ridiculous. But that’s the way it happens. At the time I was writing the story, I heard someone mention a native grass cal…


Interviews |

The Shape of Disaster: An Interview with Margaret Lazarus Dean

by Jennifer Metsker

…lenger crew, the more I came to genuinely like them, and that made me more comfortable entering into a scene with them. Plus, the more I learned about what they experienced that day, especially in those minutes after the explosion, the more I thought that scene needed to be part of the book. I find myself so visually enticed by so many of the elements in the novel, from the mother’s hair to launch-side bleachers to the schoolyard. I feel like you…


Reviews |

Driftless, by David Rhodes

by Gregory Parker

…id Rhodes.” Poets & Writers Sept./Oct. 2008. Print. 4. Gardner, John. On Becoming a Novelist. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Print. 5. Rhodes, David. Driftless. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2008. Print. 6. Gardner, John. On Moral Fiction. New York: Basic Books, 1978. Print. Further Resources – You can read an excerpt from Driftless in the Wall Street Journal. – Listen to Alan Cheuse’s review of the novel on All Things Considered. – Preview John Gardner’s…


Reviews |

We’re Flying, by Peter Stamm

by Shawn Andrew Mitchell

…al blueprint at a time. “The other woman,” the lover, is plain, religious, comfortingly ambitionless, and completely devoted to the man. He compulsively returns to her again and again “like an addict,” kicking the columns out of his wife’s design one by one. You know everything is going wrong—or right? or neither? or both?—and you know the building is coming down, and you cannot avert your eyes. In the end you stand with the narrator, blinking in…


Interviews |

The Uncorrupted Truth: An Interview with Jack Driscoll

by Polly Stewart

…of time and change, and how the future, which I think of as white space, becomes the present, which becomes the past, and then the distant past. And how time is stereoscopic, composite, or simultaneous, how the past lives inside the present, and, as such, enlarges it, providing us a history and a blueprint of who we are, and how we’ve arrived in this particular place, at this time. Is it any wonder that the element of flashback is so crucial in my…


Interviews |

Knowledge is Irreversible: An Interview with Vanessa Blakeslee

by Barrett Bowlin

…ing the stories for this next manuscript, I’ll probably dive back into the new novel/new stories alternating pattern for another five years. That seems to be the way I work. When I’m promoting, I’ll take notes for stories, but I don’t write new fiction unless I have a certain amount of head space and energy for it. I don’t fear taking time off―even a year or two―from drafting new work. That’s absolutely brave as a writer. No joke. Okay, I’m dying…


Interviews |

Solitude and Possibility: An Interview with Nancy Reisman

by Carin Clevidence

…Award, and was working on her debut novel, The First Desire, which would become A New York Times Notable Book when it was published in 2004. The novel, whose narrative follows a Jewish family in Buffalo, New York, over the course of several decades, would receive the Goldberg Award and rave reviews. Her newest novel, Trompe l’Oeil, to be published by Tin House Books on May 12, takes us to a wholly different landscape, but the deep humanity with wh…


Reviews |

The Box: Tales from the Darkroom by Günter Grass

by Gregory Parker

…ith you, but in my thoughts was right there, holding your little hand that completely disappeared into mine. Mariechen knew our wishes, after all. That made it possible for me to be near you when you had dropped your house key or your pocket money again. I helped you look; it was a long way between home and school. Cold, I would say, warm, warmer, warmer, hot … And sometimes more turn up than had been lost. The pleasure we both took in found objec…




Literary Partners