I am excited and stunned to say that Narrative Magazine has awarded me its annual fiction prize for an emerging writer, for “When the Flock Changed.” The story is actually an excerpt from a novel I’ve been writing — and writing about writing — for an embarrassingly long time. Here’s how it opens: My mother was a preacher until the . . .
To discover his narrator’s voice, Nicholson Baker recorded & transcribed 40 hours of himself lecturing. (Via.)
Bookslut’s Michael Schaub, funny man, and fellow Merwin fan, is now also writing for HTML Giant.
“What Polanski’s defense boils down to finally is what you might call the Ezra Pound Exception.” See also.
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona.” Jim Shepard quotes Oscar Wilde in a piece on using real life in fiction.