Category Archives: literature

Other Life Forms Release Party!

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Julie

Hey! I wrote a novel. And that novel is coming out this weekend! And you should come to the release party! There will be champagne and a zine-making table! You can win a free copy of the book! YAY. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Interview with Cynthia Dewi Oka

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Julie

Remember how, long, long ago, I was starting a small press? Well! Dinah Press is getting a slow start, but we’re getting ready to release our first two books–Other Life Forms, a novel by moi; and nomad of salt and … Continue reading →

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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Jeff Fecke

R.I.P., Mr. Sendak. You created one of the great anarchic works of literature, Where the Wild Things Are, which in its brevity is far deeper than most thousand-page novels. If you missed Sendak’s unbelievably amazing interview with Stephen Colbert, or … Continue reading →

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Review: THE EMPEROR’S KNIFE by Mazarkis Williams

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Mandolin

A few months ago, I had the privilege of being approached by Nightshade Books to blurb THE EMPEROR’S KNIFE by Mazarkis Williams. I blurbed it thus: Mazarkis Williams creates a world in which magic is written in an alphabet of … Continue reading →

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Responding to RonF’s Question about Reading, Plus, Just for the Hell of It, a Reading List

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

RonF, in my recent post on reading, Because Reading is Fundamental, asked if I could give an example of the kind of reading I was talking about when I wrote but it has been years since I have been able … Continue reading →

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Because Reading is Fundamental

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I miss reading. I really do. In a big, big way. And it has, especially over the past couple of days, been making me very, very sad. It started after I read Joshua Bodwell’s article in the most recent issue … Continue reading →

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An Edition of the Christian Bible Edited Entirely by Jews

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I confess that I am among those Jews about whom Professors Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler write in the introduction to their recently published The Jewish Annotated New Testament who tend to “believe that any annotated New Testament is … Continue reading →

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storySouth Million Writers Award 2011

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Mandolin

I just had the chance to read over the 10 finalists for the storySouth Million Writers Award. (By the way, this award is for stories that were first published online–of any genre–so people who usually avoid my recommendations because they … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Sheri Tepper’s 2008 Interview with Strange Horizons

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Mandolin

So, someone asked me what was so offensive about Tepper’s interview. After reading her comments, I’m convinced that it might actually be helpful to some people if I did a deconstruction. I don’t usually fisk things because it’s a format … Continue reading →

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From “My Adventures as a Social Poet,” by Langston Hughes

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Mark Nowak’s post on Harriet, “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of…”: On Wisconsin, Michigan, and the most famous question in the USA,” which is well worth reading in its own right, makes reference to the … Continue reading →

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