#WednesdayMotivation #writ

Late last night, we also learned that Tyrese Maxey lit up Madison Square Garden, and Paul Auster moved on.

In OT, Auster will write books, no doubt.

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#writing life #writing #death

There's a nice film based on Paul Auster's The Music of Chance.

Deadline looming for The Bridport Prize. Have you got your story in?

Philip Gourevitch the king of coincidence #rip

. . . and then Paul Auster left . . .

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#writing life #writing #death #novel #invention #solitude #invisible

Rick Harsch YouTube In the video, amazing short story writer James Alan McPherson is praised as a helpful writing teacher.

#edchat #teaching #creative #writing #awp #mfa

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Rick Harsch YouTube 'Kanye . . . would be a perfect example of what  McPherson is talking about, people getting lost in a kind of American materialism and chase of money and that kind of Gatsby-esque glittery success that at the middle ends up being very hollow.'
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#writinglife

Rick Harsch YouTube McPherson's train short story is in here along with an amazing one from John Cheever, Edward P. Jones's 'The Store,' a bunch of others.
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The Branson, Missouri article in the new print Harper's Magazine is in the genre of long-form journalism I always wish I had more time to read.

#amreading #fridayreads #travel #writing #Americana

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THE IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP (OR PORKSHOW) and the Pakol Affair youtu.be/JphESElPsuk?si… via YouTube

Willie Nelson is 91 today. If you haven’t yet, it’s a good day to check out Cowboy Jamboree’s Willie Nelson incited antho of fiction, nonfiction & verse, RED HEADED WRITING: amazon.com/Red-Headed-Wri…

#MondayMorning #MondayVibes #MondayMotivation #writ

Got a new story over at Poverty House! It’s one of the weirder things I’ve written, thereby making it a favorite 🦉

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I wrote at least one significant novel, and I don't have an MFA. I was admitted to the same MA twice with subsistence-wage funding, one MFA without funding, and I was once waitlisted at a fully funded program. I'm not past applying again here, there, or elsewhere.

#writinglife

Ezra Pound's Imagist poem In a Station of the Metro was published in Poetry magazine in April 1913.

#sunday #poetry #rhyme

Very glad to see Brian K. Goodman's 'marvelous new book' get some deserved attention lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tran…

Fifteen hours left for free shipping on intense, absurd, bleak, and at times honking-through-your-nose weird, funny city novels.

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twenty-five hours of free shipping

#IndieBookstoreDay #indiepress #indiebound #mfa #awp #sundayreads

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