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"The Rain God" by Arturo Islas
Beautiful novel. It accomplishes so much in just 180 pages. It is able to tell the story of three generations of a family, but the way the telling of these stories is structured makes for very compac… more →
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"The Rain God" by Arturo Islas
cyesis wrote 4 months ago: Beautiful novel. It accomplishes so much in just 180 pages. It is able to tell the story of three g … more →
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
cyesis wrote 4 months ago: I’ve yet to know a winner lose. This memoir, by Oscar Zeta Acosta, is one of the best autobiog … more →
"My Antonia" and "Housekeeping"
cyesis wrote 5 months ago: I happened to read these two novels within two weeks of each other. Both stories are tied to a part … more →
"At Lake Scugog"
cyesis wrote 5 months ago: 1. Where what I see comes to rest, at the edge of the lake, against what I think I see and, up on th … more →
"The Five Wounds"
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cyesis wrote 5 months ago: I’m trying to understand this story by Kristin Valdez Quade published in this week’s New … more →
(long heavy sigh) twilight
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cyesis wrote 6 months ago: I was a girl before I was a feminist. Tuns out the girl is stronger. What could possibly bring me ou … more →
Two poems about looking at the same two rivers
cyesis wrote 1 year ago: Dominion by Eleanor Lerman We spent the night in Maryland, in an old house with stonr floors and sta … more →
You Mean What You Do
cyesis wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes a serendipitous juxtaposition of two otherwise random events seems to click them in place, … more →
On Authority / vol. 1
cyesis wrote 1 year ago: May 2, 2008 The phrase “Felicitations on your grand match,” sounds out in Kiera Knightley’s accent, … more →
Story about a story
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: 5 December 2007 When I started this story July 15, it started like this: The blue Chevy drove west t … more →
Is this what that means?
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: 4 December 2007 We were living in this apartment two months before I noticed the near-constant buzz … more →
Something to say
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: 3 December 2007 Would that the tab at the top of the screen that says “write” were truly … more →
Grad School, Redux
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: 23 October 2007 “There’s a primitive need for language that works as an instrument of di … more →
Pensacola, stories
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: 18 October 2007 Most of my unfinished stories that have the greatest amount of ‘energy’ … more →
Writing life 0, Inertia 47
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: One rejection for a pitch. 0 other inquiries, or inquiries into inquiries. I’m hastily printin … more →
I Am Charlotte Simmons
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: Everything I wish I could say about this book is already written here. … more →
That Proverbial Road-Not-Taken
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: September 8, 2007 When I started this blog, I thought I’d use it to chronicle how I’m sp … more →
Teaching idea: Writing toward analysis
cyesis wrote 2 years ago: It’s possible I may be teaching a college composition course (for advanced high school students) in … more →
Writing short stories, teaching literary analysis
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cyesis wrote 2 years ago: I’m obsessed these days with the goal of writing a collection of short stories. I haven’ … more →
