I go for the 0.5’s. I like how they cut into the page.

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rjkoehler:

It’s like the Grand Canyon of Lotus Lanterns at Busan’s Samgwangsa Temple.

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theparisreview:

“I had never been a particularly good liar, having been blessed with a round moon of a face that registered every thought. But as I assimilated among the English, a people with whom I assumed I’d get along very well, being of clearly similar native-of-Boston stock and having a love of nineties Britpop, it was becoming clear to me that I had a more pressing social problem: I did not know how to tell a white lie.”

Elisabeth Donnelly on her semester abroad.

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The main lesson my chapbook has taught me about current projects is: find the format that fits your story, not the other way around. Just because many of us dream of publishing a book that provides a nice advance, not every story is suitable for the for-profit enterprise of commercial publishing. It’s a business. Some of our prose is too experimental for that outlet. Some of us write black sheep forms like the essay. I think of it the way I think of individual pieces. Some things you write are essays, some are articles, and some of the ones you thought were articles turn out to be short blog posts. The same goes for book projects. Some stories are chapbooks. Some are longform lit mag pieces. Others are books to send to trade publishers, and others are eBooks. Not every long narrative is a potential trade paperback to give your agent. Sometimes it’s best to go indie–not to be forced to, but to want to. Independent presses and relatively obscure literary magazines foster some of our country’s best writing, hands down, and writers should try to match our story to the venue.
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“Our environments have a large role to play in forming us. Our sense of space, of nature, of beauty, of other people.”

The good Tobias Carroll at Vol.1 Brooklyn interviewed Aaron Gilbreath, Courtney Maum, and me about traveling and writing about places. Story here.

Just ran up here to do some pull-ups, saw this

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