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Just in time for my trip to the UK, short story vending machines in London!
theguardian.com/books/2019/a… theguardian.com/books/2019/a…
"How can I justify luring guileless young people into squandering their passion and talents on a life of letters?"
humanparts.medium.com/why-we… humanparts.medium.com/why-we…
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell... youtube.com/watch?v=lv_4xmh_…
"Most writers are cobbling together various sources of income like teaching or speaking... electricliterature.com/the-d…
Merry Christmas. Tip your UPS person!
thehairpin.com/2014/04/adven… thehairpin.com/2014/04/adven…
Strategies to get you through the holiday season:
mcsweeneys.net/articles/lite… mcsweeneys.net/articles/lite…
A great loss to our journal-loving community, but wishing "Tin House" the best on its refocused artistic endeavors. facebook.com/StoryHouston/po…
'When the professor came to interview me she asked for the provenance, and I said, “The Queen Mother.” She stormed out yelling about the antiquities trade and the immigration and customs enforcement agency, a real mouthful.... All the... storyhouston.com/?page_id=27…
In the spirit of the holidays, a family reunion much more awkward than yours:
"After my eyes adjusted to the dim, purple and blue lighting, I found Maria on the dance floor....If she had bangs, I could’ve sworn she was the real... storyhouston.com/?page_id=27…
Make Christmas tolerable this year by telling ghost stories? Yes, please.
smithsonianmag.com/history/p… smithsonianmag.com/history/p…
'When the professor came to interview me she asked for the provenance, and I said, “The Queen Mother.” She stormed out yelling about the antiquities trade and the immigration and customs enforcement agency, a real mouthful.... All the... storyhouston.com/?page_id=27…
'“Now it’s too late. Why couldn’t I just do it?” His small face, which still held traces of the round baby he had been, was ravaged with regret. It had been impossible for him to imagine that Emma would one day cease to exist. It’s... storyhouston.com/?page_id=27…
First up in our Issue XI lineup, a piece by Robert Cremins, a professor at the University of Houston and author of the novels "A Sort of Homecoming" and "Send in the Devils."
Read his latest fiction below:
storyhouston.com/?page_id=27… storyhouston.com/?page_id=27…
This week Houston lost a great poet and teacher, Tony Hoagland.
nytimes.com/2018/10/24/obitu… nytimes.com/2018/10/24/obitu…
An excellent essay about a difficult topic, and even more reason for journals to pay their contributors.
lithub.com/going-hungry-at-t… lithub.com/going-hungry-at-t…
10 out of 10, would read again.
newyorker.com/books/page-tur… newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by,... facebook.com/StoryHouston/po…
Have a very Flannery Friday!
lithub.com/33-portraits-of-f… lithub.com/33-portraits-of-f…