Tag: writing
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On ‘The Deadest Man in the Underworld’
My short story The Deadest Man in the Underworld has been published in RIC Journal. What should and shouldn’t I say about this piece? Wrote it in a frenzy. Or put the pieces together in a frenzy. Maybe it shows, maybe that’s a good thing, I don’t know. Been wanting to contribute to RIC again Read.
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On Georg Trakl’s Sebastian Dreaming
I reviewed Sebastian Dreaming by Georg Trakl, translated by James Reidel and published by Seagull Books, for the Summer 2017 issue of the great Asymptote. My first proper poetry review. Read the collection and wrote the review in a frenzy back in Feb. I think Trakl was just what I needed. Big, big thanks to Read.
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On ‘Vanitas’
My short story Vanitas is in issue ten of Birds Piled Loosely. Hope you like. Thx to BPL. Read.
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On ‘Good Luck with the Arseholes’
Visual Verse does this thing where on the first day of every month they post an image. They then ask for responses to the image – either poetry or prose, up to 500 words, written in an hour. Way back in March of 2014 I wrote What the Sheep Thinks of the Sky in response Read.
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On 2016
My reading year in review, in which I lament this awful year, is up now at 3:AM. I’ll be burning thigh bones for the rest of December in the hope of an improved 2017. Read.
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On ‘Two Memories’
My short piece Two Memories has been published in issue two of RIC Journal. Two memories which I hope it makes sense to pull together. Took some time to get the tenses right – or if not right then at least more correct. Memory, it seems to me, is experienced in the present, even when the Read.
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On ‘Obsessions of the Lonely’
My experimental essay/reading of Zero K, Don DeLillo’s latest novel, is now up at 3:AM Magazine. Yeah, yeah – more fragmentary writing. It couldn’t be avoided, I promise (and more is on the way). This is me having another try at what I attempted with my reading diary for The Scofield‘s Kay Boyle issue. Big thanks Read.
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On ‘Then god…’
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On ‘Eight questions for Yuri Herrera’
I was fortunate enough to put eight questions to Yuri Herrera about his writing, translation and the spaces his stories occupy for 3:AM Magazine. Yuri is the author of Trabajos del reino, Signs Preceding the End of the World – winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award – and The Transmigration of Bodies, which is due from Read.
Tristan Foster 