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State of the Book Presenter: Ariel Djanikian

by The Editors

…Ann Arbor on Saturday, September 28, in Rackham Auditorium. All events are free and open to the public. For a complete schedule or list of presenters, please check out the State of the Book Website. Thank you! Ariel Djanikian’s debut novel, The Office of Mercy, was published this February by Viking. Djanikian holds an MFA degree from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant. She’s also lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and I…


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NaNoWriMo Grab Bag: Robot Assistants and More

by Celeste Ng

…“a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts”–has a special NaNoWriMo trial version, as well as a discount on the full version of the program if you reach your word count. And Amazon’s print-on-demand site CreateSpace is offering writers a free (papreback) proof copy of their completed NaNoWriMo novels. Full disclosure: Fiction Writers Review does not endorse any of the above services or products and…


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by Anne Stameshkin

…y poetic liberties, too much “art.” And beyond that there were issues of privacy and the potential for libel. I feel I should add, by the way, that I don’t take the opposite view—that a work of fiction can or ever should be passed off as nonfiction. With fiction, you’re free to invent, but you’re also free to use facts and tell the truth; you can hardly avoid doing so. But with nonfiction you swear to tell the truth, mainly. Want to make sure you…


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A Relationship is Not an Economy

by Shawn Andrew Mitchell

…th coordinating conjunctions highlighted): She laughed with big red smudge-free lips and fed him and let him watch four sitcoms in a row, but before he fell asleep she was on him again and said he didn’t have to do anything at all but just be still and sleepy and she would complete all the movement. Polysyndeton is possibly the most consumerist of devices. It’s a tool well suited to characters who want the finest clothes and food and respect money…


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More With Less: Limited Settings in “A&P” and Last Night at the Lobster

by Alyson Mosquera Dutemple

…parts of speech keeps the stories moving so that the A&P and Red Lobster become places that the reader gladly commits to spending so much time in, though how the reader perceives the constraints of these surroundings is directly influenced by how the main characters see, not only their locations, but themselves. If fiction holds a mirror up to human nature, in “A&P” and Last Night at the Lobster, Updike and O’Nan also hold the mirror up to the cha…


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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Information Dump

by Peter Turchi

…These last two are developed in the novel as the commitment of lovers, and tests of those commitments, and the desire for family, or community.) Each of those is presented in the form of an illustrated list, and in the cases of her husbands and children, Whitehead tells us how many there were, then offers specifics. It’s a little like casting a line and reeling it in. “She took a husband three times,” the narrator tells us, jumping ahead; then he…


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Journal of the Week: One Story

by Michael Rudin

…-offer slots in its Summer Workshop for Emerging Writers. Details are forthcoming on their website. Subscription information, back issues, and much more can be found at the One Story website. For even more goodness, follow their Twitter feeds (both One Story and Hannah Tinti’s personal feed) or “like” them on Facebook. ~ As a special bonus to readers of Fiction Writers Review, we’ll be giving away three free subscriptions to One Story! If you’d li…


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Going Off-Grid: Why Fictionists Should Write Prose Poems

by Steven Wingate

…d and revel in language for its own sake, the way poetry does; I read them simply to feel the rush of their sentences and unplug myself from the need for sense. The world of prose poetry they led me into—Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Russell Edson, Mark Strand, etc.—always shook my tree and sent me back to fiction as a different (and more free) writer who was willing to risk more on the page, trying things that might be terrific or might be disasters. Natu…


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We Are the Friction: Illustration vs. Short Fiction (edited by Sing Statistics)

by Lee Thomas

…ring into a white void at the center of the page. Food for thought indeed. Free Donuts, by Pietari Posti Keeping with the baked-goods theme, Ryan Boudinot’s “Free Donuts” arrives like the love child of George Saunders and John Cassavetes. This time around, an illustration by Pietari Posti served as inspiration. In peach, sea foam green and fuchsia, a giant worm and bird appear Godzilla-sized atop a donut shop and restaurant, respectively. Within B…


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Four Days in Galle

by Preeta Samarasan

…r anyone else close us down, said Dobbs, and the irony was not lost on us: free speech must prevail in the end, against the NGO that claims to fight for press freedom. Doves credit: Flickr Further Links and Resources Jon Lee Anderson wrote about the current political climate in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war in the January 17th issue of the New Yorker (subscription required). Or, you can listen to Anderson discuss the article in this fr…




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