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The Education of a Plagiarist in Tobias Wolff’s Old School

by Forrest Anderson

…rnest Hemingway, and he’s aware of the long literary history of writers welcoming other writers: I knew that Maupassant, whose stories I loved, had been taken up when young by Flaubert and Turgenev; Faulkner by Sherwood Anderson; Hemingway by Fitzgerald and Pound and Gertrude Stein… It seemed to follow that you needed such a welcome, yet before this could happen you somehow, anyhow, had to meet the writer who was to welcome you. Meeting a writer a…


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Get Writing: Scene and Summary, Minimalist and Maximalist

by Charlotte Boulay

…ence until I try to put it into words. Having two representations can help test out how the truth of the moment comes through in both maximalist and minimalist form. Exercise: Write a summary of a specific experience. Then, write a scene of that same experience. Further reading: If you missed the first two installments of “Get Writing” this month, you can view them in our archives—and check back next Friday for our final installment. For more…


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In Defense of Comic Novels

by Celeste Ng

…ons’s Cold Comfort Farm, or Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle — stand the test of time is not because they are great comic novels: it’s because they are great novels, full stop. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22: comic novel or serious novel? Doesn’t matter. Brilliant novel. To support her case, Wagner lists her top 10 comic novels, including Deaf Sentence by David Lodge and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (“Yes, it’s about the Holocaust…


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Get Writing: Stolen-Form Stories

by Celeste Ng

…weather forecast… The less literary, the better. Here are some (published) examples: “Test” by G. A. Ingersoll, in Pindeldyboz “Pledge Drive” by Patricia Marx, in the New Yorker “In Webster’s” by Aaron Devine1, in Flashquake “The Night Watchman’s Ocurrence Book” by V. S. Naipaul, in his collection of the same name “To-Do” by Jennifer Egan, in The Guardian “Great Rock and Roll Pauses” by Jennifer Egan, from her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel-in-stori…


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Contents May Have Shifted, by Pam Houston

by Michael Byers

…nds of the men in her life. But the lack of narrative drive and absence of complexity in these characters combine to deliver the impression that this narrator has not so much been felled by grief as she has bumped into it inadvertently while boarding a plane. Further Links and Resources In the Iowa Review, read an excerpt from Contents May Have Shifted. On Flickr, check out the images that helped inspire the novel. Listen to an interview with Hous…


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Journal of the Week: PANK

by Michael Rudin

…From PANK’s nearly 5,000 devotees on Facebook, one quickly sees how such a commitment to community instantly builds one. Roxane was kind enough to share answers to our “Journal of the Week” questions over email: What is the role of PANK in today’s literary community, be it for readers or writers? We strive to be the kind of magazine that respects both readers and writers. How do you see PANK’s mission and tastes evolving in the next two years? Wil…


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"She is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing, too."

by Celeste Ng

…n any unkind way.” In response, the Guardian puts Naipaul (and you) to the test with a 10-question quiz. For example, can you tell whether this passage is by a man or a woman? “A tall, broad-shouldered man came to stand in the doorway, dressed in faded jeans and an untucked tan chamois shirt, his feet shod in moccasins. Maggie could hardly take him in. Brown curly hair, a light stubble of beard, piercing green eyes framed by laugh wrinkles. Cookie…


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the book isn't dead yet, but fiction "needs all the help it can get"

by Anne Stameshkin

…Back to the issue at hand: how can we get more readers excited about fiction, book-by-book and overall? Most people are excited in the abstract about movies, about food, about baseball. How can we instill that desire for novels and short stories in others? Probably not by teaching to the test in our schools (though many wonderful teachers continue to inspire new readers). Probably not merely by blogging into the yawn of cyberspace (though sometime…


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My Name is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira

by Helen W. Mallon

…Name is Mary Sutter (Viking, 2010) is the gutsy tale of a youthful Albany, New York, midwife who becomes a nurse to soldiers of the Union Army—men who were more likely to die from now-preventable infections than they were from gunshots. Above all, Mary is hell-bent on becoming a surgeon at a time when no woman in this country had been admitted to a medical school. The story begins with Mary’s thwarted attempt to apprentice herself to James Blevens…


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Researching the details in fiction

by Celeste Ng

…1;so you can avoid having a character named Jennifer before the 1930s, for example, when the name was practically non-existent The Social Security Administration’s name index, which gives you the most popular names in any given year The U.S. Naval Observatory website, which gives the phase of the moon and the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset on any day in history Okay, those are my secret research sites. Now it’s your turn: what det…




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