Category Archives: LITERATURE

WRITING & LITERATURE: Lit Journals and Getting Published

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Susan

Just spent an hour looking back through several websites looking for that one Precious Literary Journal Editorial Staff that just made my day.  What they noted in their submission guidelines was that no author would be published more than twice … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Art

Posted on March 3, 2007 by susan

It dawned on me what this book reminds me of:  Heronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.  I’ve always loved that piece because it fascinates, there is so much going on at once that one cannot take it all in in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Humor

Posted on March 1, 2007 by susan

Not really into this book; there’s a lot else going on so that I’m easily diverted.  It’s also a matter of the way this book is written.  It’s like reading several novels at once–which, of course, it is. But I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – Hard-hitting Story

Posted on February 25, 2007 by susan

Strange title–Night Slides Falling to Light–for this wonderfully written story by Thomas O’Malley.  Within six pages, two murders, setting that you can feel, characters that strike an immediate chord, and a story that is beautifully woven.  One of my favorites. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – Reader’s Rights

Posted on February 23, 2007 by susan

I’m getting old and losing patience with any waste of time.  I’ve overcome my innate need to finish what I start and so (with a bit of guilt) have learned that if a story is not enjoyable, read a bit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA, REALITY, LITERATURE, WRITING: Contemplation

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Susan

Pondering: Purpose, beyond being fruitful and multiplying.  Man’s place in living. Wherein lie my talents, skills?  Does anyone recognize them?  Do they exist beyond my mind?  Layered space, separated only by time. God.  Difficult to overcome learned faith, yet faith … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – I’m in there, sort of…

Posted on February 17, 2007 by susan

Unfortunately, not as a published author, but as a character: Lucille used to look on the pines, watch them turn black against the horizon as the earth turned away from the sun, one cigarette after another, coffee making her hands … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – The Deep, Meaningful Ones

Posted on February 17, 2007 by susan

The next two stories do have that in common; they are more literary in that one can relate to the more character, human event nature of the storylines. Although it’s one more "divorced father coping with raising a kid minus … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: At Swim-Two-Birds – Grounding Ideas

Posted on February 16, 2007 by susan

O’Brien separates the stories in this novel by prefacing them with the narrator/author’s notes: Further extract from my Manuscript on the subject of Mr. Trellis’s Manuscript on the subject of John Furrisky, his first steps in life and his first … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Pleasure of The Text – Some Thoughts

Posted on February 15, 2007 by susan

Obviously I read this a few paragraphs at a time, with days in between readings.  Also obvious, I’m sure, is that I don’t fully understand all the meanings as Barthes is presenting them.  But there are some things that just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – Story

Posted on February 14, 2007 by susan

Hmmph.  I just got done reading a 38-page story in this issue that made me reconsider some things I thought I knew and practiced in just the last couple of days. Creed of Whispers by Joseph Flanagan is, oddly enough, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Playing With Time Through Layers

Posted on February 11, 2007 by susan

Amazing to read; must have been near impossibly amazing to plan out, the beginning of the novel within the novel: Propped by pillows in his bed in the white light of an incandescent petrol lamp, Dermot Trellis adjusted the pimples … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: So Many Books, So Little Time…

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Susan

Every day I try to hold off on any personal (Reality?:) postings until after 4:52 p.m. when the sweeping hands of MetaxuCafe harvest member headlines.  I also try to post something literary just prior to that time in the hopes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Layers

Posted on February 10, 2007 by susan

O’Brien told us in the very first pages that this book would be like no other.  That it would be multi-layered with many beginnings and endings.  That its characters would be drawn from a well of personalities already established.  That … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #54 – Voice?

Posted on February 9, 2007 by susan

I thought it’d be a good idea to catch up on some of my short story reading backlog of lit journals, especially at a time when I myself am submitting and seeking that magic key. While I usually start in … Continue reading →

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