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Another Loose Sally

Confessions of a Horizontal Writer

November 23, 2011

I’m writing this blog post the same way I write everything else: just doing it. I didn’t plan. I didn’t get in the mood, whatever that is (sober and awake?). I read, I discussed, and now I’m writing. One draft. Two drafts. You and me and the baby make three. Before I went to writer school, [...]

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Sally’s Picks Nov. 21

November 21, 2011

Another Loose Sally’s “best of the web.” * Holidays are supposed to be a time of laughter and goodwill, but sometimes family dysfunction gets in the way. If this is the case in your life, this list of literature for Thanksgiving (plus a playlist) may ease the tension. * Been rejected lately? From Gertrude Stein [...]

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The Pick-Up Artist

November 17, 2011

You’ve probably heard about the pick-up artist, about how he goes into a bar and hits on one lovely woman after another and endures rejection after rejection, and maybe you even feel bad for the guy and wonder how he has the self-confidence to continue to offer his integrity up on the altar of the barflies. [...]

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Sally’s Picks Nov. 14

November 14, 2011

Another Loose Sally’s “best of the web.” * Occupy Wall Street is one thing, but Occupy Poetry? A group called the Croatoan Poetic Cell protests at the Poetry Foundation headquarters based on the “common (and romantic) notion that wealth is at odds with artistic authenticity.” * Iceland, which has been near the top of my [...]

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Beyond Criticism

November 9, 2011

The November installment for our “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series comes from our Assistant Fiction Editor. Over the last two and a half years of reading stories submitted to Hunger Mountain, I’ve been impressed by the level of quality I see in our slush pile. Most of the submissions are about something important and worthy [...]

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Sally’s Picks Nov. 7

November 6, 2011

Another Loose Sally’s “best of the web.” * Karen Russell, author of the novel Swamplandia!, discusses the intersections between place and “the real to the fantastic” in fiction. * Calling all editors, style freaks, and grammar geeks! When it comes to publication, should the focus be on speed or correctness? The New York Times offers [...]

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Headless Horseman Rides Again

November 3, 2011

Thanks to my husband and Ichabod Crane, on Halloween the evening’s honeyed sentences outnumbered the tiny Butterfinger bars. I’m still trying to figure out what, if anything, Halloween should mean to me. My husband and I don’t have children, so all the excitement over trick-or-treating is lost to us. And we’re not big on parties, [...]

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