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).
Friday, February 28, 2025
On Roberto Arlt
"[B]ut the fact that [Roberto] Arlt wrote 'badly' is what made him important. Because Arlt’s style was no style at all—an abrasively 'bad' Spanish which Arlt blamed on the conditions in which he lived and wrote, the bedlam of the streets—his writing never became aesthetic, could never be placed in a museum."
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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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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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(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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