The Last Two Days
I started yesterday slowly. Too little sleep, a mind that did not want to go to work. I did get out before 2 pm and home before 3, after a stop at McClure's. I stayed here for about an hour before going out for groceries. Just a few things to tide me over. Then back here around 5:30. I ate dinner, then got on the computer.
I went looking for a place to submit "Road Tripping" and gave up around 9 pm. I read about Marlowe until I could not keep my eyes open.
This morning I slept through the alarm and crawled out around 7. More hunting for places to send my novella. Joined Duotrope.
No going to church this weekend. I decided not to force myself on my driver, and he did not write me.
I ate the last of my beans and chicken around 10. "The Rational Actor" was submitted to three palces (see below). I am out of caffeine, almost out of smokes. A new belt is needed. I am taking off from here soon for Dollar General and The Attic Window.
Cleaning the living quarters and reading some books are the plans tonight.
Just Poking Around
Georgia On My Mind - Jerry Lee Lewis (France 1981)
Richard Posner - he still lives, but a sad decline. Another day this would have been taken by me as proving the futility of life.
So you want to be a writer? Read these books. From Cool Beans Lit. Having read three of the books listed, I think it is a good list. I always suggest John Irving's The World According to Garp. It had a great influence on me back in 2010 when it was being proposed to me that I should get back to writing, and I was seeking a purpose for living after giving up on suicide. Another, I recommend is Joyce Carol Oates' Faith of A Writer.
Nora with an H from Mary Morrissy's blog, about her novel that should be out today.
The novel from Banshee Press is about Norah Barnacle. Just her. Not James Joyce, but as you can see from the cover, it’s impossible to escape his presence in the novel. It’s impossible to escape his presence, full stop! Even so, Penelope Unbound is a speculative fiction which imagines a life for Norah Barnacle without James Joyce.
It’s a “what” if tale. In it, I play the Goddess and split the pair up just after they arrive in Trieste in 1904. Joyce left Norah at the railway station when he went off to scare up funds and accommodation leaving her to guard the luggage. She waited the best part of a day for him to come back. In real life, she waited, but in Penelope Unbound she doesn’t.
Washington Square Review, an award-winning journal of new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations, and interviews, is published biannually by the students and faculty of the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program.
I took a look at Tate Gieselmann' s review, “Does a satirical novel need heart?”: Andrew Lipstein’s “The Vegan”. Well-reasoned, a surprising admission from the reviewer, and an answer does come to the question of which, while probably predictable, stands as correct and fair.
The Tusculum Review (This one got "The Rational Actor".)
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)
Vision Statement:
OJAL Art Incorporated (OAI), publishing since 2017 as Open: Journal of Arts & Letters and its imprint Buttonhook Press is a 501c3 nonprofit organization supporting writers and artists worldwide. OAI offers a range of contemporary aesthetic experiences made available through its several media platforms.
On behalf of OAI, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters and its imprint Buttonhook Press have as their primary ambitions to gather, publish, and popularize notable contemporary writing and other fine arts and to promote the work of its contributors to a varied and discerning audience in the English-speaking world and beyond.
On behalf of OAI, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters and its imprint Buttonhook Press offer its audience the opportunity to sample an array of artistic expressions presented by both emerging and established contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and videographers from around the world.
They have a YouTube page with authors reading their work. I this one "The Rational Actor".
New LettersMISSION
The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. We publish and serve readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters has won a National Magazine Award, the industry’s highest honor, plus multiple Pushcart Prizes, and is reprinted often in the Best American anthology series.
HISTORY
In the winter of 1934, the small, private University of Kansas City began publishing The University Review. The name was changed in 1944 to The University of Kansas City Review. With the Spring issue in 1938, the late Alexander P. Cappon became its editor. He remained editor of The Review for the next 33 years. During that time, America fought three wars and inaugurated six presidents, we entered the Atomic Age and watched a man walk on the moon, the University became part of the larger University of Missouri system and many of today’s authors were born. But The Review’s high standards and stated mission didn’t change.
On the publication’s first masthead, the editors announced their hope was “to reflect the cultural life of this section of the United States by providing a medium for the publication of the finest writing obtainable here.” They welcomed all manuscripts, “the sole test of acceptance being that of literary quality.”
I sent "The Rational Actor" here, which might be an overestimation of its quality.
Collateral: A journal for which I cannot imagine have anything for submission, but which seems likely to have far more interesting things to read:
Publishing literary and visual art concerned with violent conflict beyond the combat zone.
An example of its fiction:
What We Have Now
by Jerome Gold
The hospital scenes were particularly hard for Ruth. Small sounds of denial issued from her throat during these and other scenes depicting the degradation of the human body.
For Harry, the hardest parts were the combat scenes—the hyperreal speed with which everything happened, the uncertainty about what actually was happening, the abrupt head and limb movements of the actors, the staccato voices. Toward the end, the scenes of solidarity and renewal were hard, too. Some of those scenes were perhaps the hardest.
Whoa.
Who’s Next : Life House (Super Deluxe)
...Everlasting quibbles like these may shed some light on why Townshend still considers Who’s Next to have been a “compromise album,” compared to his original concept. And with this massive investigation into the project, you get the sense that he could finally quell his endless devotion to revisiting it—but don’t bet on it.
From JSTOR: Halloween Stories and “Tell Me about a Complicated Man”: A Homer Reading List (introductory reading list)
Stone tools and camel tooth suggest people were in the Pacific Northwest more than 18,000 years ago
And that takes me up to publishing this post.
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