"That was Kathy's take too, also that it didn't really matter where you situated yourself since the centrifuge of history would eventually pluck you up and switch you round. It was the thing right now to take people from the outskirts, the wallflowers if you like, and try to look at events through their eyes. No one cared about Napoleon or Darwin, it was more interesting to be obscure, almost unheard of, a failure, a total creep."
~~ from Crudo by Olivia Laing
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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"Going to Hell," Russian trans. from Sergey Katukov, East West Literary Forum , Jan. 28, 2026 "A Separate Piece," Cityw...
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In theory, a book isn't alive unless it's snuggled comfortably in the reading bin in the bathroom at Oprah's or any sitting Pres...
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"Going to Hell," Russian trans. from Sergey Katukov, East West Literary Forum , Jan. 28, 2026 "A Separate Piece," Cityw...
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(For my favorite novels and short story collections, I limited myself to fiction but cheated so I could add Richard Wright's Black Boy a...
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I'm happy to announce that I'll be reading from " Frade Killed Ellen " or Auggie's Revenge at 3 p.m. as part of an ...
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And, finally, near the end of Journey , Celine arrives at his Slovak beauty, a far cry from the meth-infested psychotic " no-neck Slova...
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