Philly's own Serotonin is open for submissions and receptive to donations as well. Find the tip jar at the bottom of their page.
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).
Monday, November 16, 2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
The Man Without Talent
"We are, in other words, enamored with The Man Without Talent as one of the premier examples of the "I-novel" (shishosetsu) in comics form, referring to a genre of putatively autobiographical fiction, popular in Japan since the early twentieth century, that typically dwells on the writer/protagonist's struggles with poverty and artistic creation and their less-than-admirable interactions with the opposite sex."
~~ from "Where is Yoshiharu Tsuge" by Ryan Holmberg,
an essay included in the English translation of
Monday, November 9, 2020
The Partisan Crowd
Poet Ben Mazer posted a curious sales item in his Delmore Schwartz social-media group. It's a complete run of The Partisan Review from December 1937 to December 1959, and many of the issues are in excellent condition. "The Partisan crowd" also received good mention in Joseph Epstein's recent writing in Commentary Magazine. The essay concerns his early days among the New York Intellectuals when, as a subscriber, he'd avidly read Commentary, The Partisan Review, and Encounter.
Saturday, November 7, 2020
indiebound
Auggie's Revenge is currently available at a strong discount as a new trade paperback from you-know-who, and both Auggie's Revenge and the Classroom Edition of Fight for Your Long Day remain available wherever books are sold by independent bookstores.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
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We're still waiting on a time, but we've added The Ivy Bookshop to the famous 2012 Goodman-Kudera book tour. So this is what we know...
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If you, or anyone you know, becomes burdened with the gift of an electronic reading device this holiday season, you're welcome to take 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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My interview with Olga Gardner Galvin of ENC Press is available here: http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2009/06/22/interview-with-olga-gardner...
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Smashwords: http://www.short-fiction-ebooks.com/_/_/571510/turquoise-truck Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/turquoise-truck/id10...
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At the SEIU conference in Washington D.C. last November , one student group reported that they are fighting to make income-based repayment t...
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Debra Leigh Scott's "insightful article" on " How The American University was Killed in Five Easy Steps " flew aroun...
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"[B] ut the fact that [Roberto] Arlt wrote 'badly' is what made him important. Because Arlt’s style was no style at all—an abra...
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Meanwhile, over at the Author's Guild , Scott Turow reminds us of how hopeless it is for all but the chosen few of the publishing world ...
