Last night I read Beanball by Ron Carlson. It was issue number 99/100 of One Story Magazine. The story struck me in several ways. It was beautifully written and full of characters with remorse about t… more →
It's a Mad House, a Mad House!!Mark Richardson wrote 4 weeks ago: I decided to shake things up and not read last week’s New Yorker short story. Instead, I read the mo … more →
Karl Richard wrote 1 month ago: In a world populated by meme machines… Meme machines who are a lot more susceptible to being i … more →
kristyn wrote 1 month ago: I don’t know how my experience compares, but the first weeks of motherhood just doesn’t … more →
Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 month ago: Un paio di settimane fa la notizia che Oprah avrebbe adottato per il suo book club Say You’re … more →
Eimear Ryan wrote 3 months ago: As Emerging Writer reported, the lovely Dermot Bolger is teaching a novel writing class at the Rathl … more →
Ted wrote 3 months ago: Novel Work Doing the final work on the rewrite of Part I. It’s taken since March to get to this poin … more →
kristyn wrote 4 months ago: Lydia Peelle, whose short story, “Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing,” appeared in … more →
litscribbler wrote 4 months ago: A word on numbering: A while back I had a post called Short Story News–followed up, later, by … more →
emofalltrades wrote 5 months ago: So I finished my “quick edit” on the book a week ago, after finishing it and not looking … more →
kristyn wrote 6 months ago: Take a look at what Laura van den Berg writes about publishing in literary magazines at The Review R … more →
cynthia wrote 6 months ago: Hey, do you remember in elementary school when there would be paper drives? You’d go around to your … more →
cynthia wrote 8 months ago: From Le Sirenuse, a hotel in Positano, Italy, that, in the dark green leather stationary folder, inc … more →
cynthia wrote 10 months ago: Well, you can only read one book at a time, right? Maybe not. There’s the book I’m rea … more →
gigdoggy wrote 10 months ago: [There's often more behind the discovery of an album than just the music. Here's S. Ziggy Zagami's … more →
rhibowman wrote 11 months ago: They say if you want to be a better writer you should read more. (They being successful writers.) Th … more →
kristyn wrote 11 months ago: The story “Blood” by Matthew Cheney deals with violence in a way far from the sensationa … more →
dylan555 wrote 1 year ago: Last night I read Beanball by Ron Carlson. It was issue number 99/100 of One Story Magazine. The sto … more →
cynthia wrote 1 year ago: My favorite journal is One Story. That’s what it is. One story. At a time. Brilliant. Eve … more →
litscribbler wrote 1 year ago: This Friday–October 10, 8pm, at the Beverly Hills Public Library–the New Short Fiction S … more →