mnartists.org launches this season of miniStories with contest winner Jeffrey Burton's piece "Letters of Transit." Mr. Burton's story was selected as a 2010 miniStories finalist by an all-star panel of flash fiction judges -- Alexander Chee (The Queen of the Night, Edinburgh), Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket series, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs), Kevin … Continue reading Read "Letters of Transit" by Jeffrey Burton
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Feliz Cumpleaños, Julio
The Argentine writer Julio Cortazar was born on August 26, 1914. Following the rise to power of Juan Peron, Cortazor emigrated to Paris in 1951. There he produced his masterpieces Hopscotch, Blow-up and Other Stories (the titular short story formed the basis for Antonioni's movie of the same name), Around the Day in Eighty Worlds … Continue reading Feliz Cumpleaños, Julio
Barack and Helen–Fans of Freedom
Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freedom doesn't come out until next Tuesday, but it's already big, big news in the publishing world. Franzen's first novel The Corrections was a smash hit (and won the National Book Award for Fiction... and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award... and was picked as an American Library … Continue reading Barack and Helen–Fans of Freedom
Musings from Magers and Quinn 