#CarlHiaasen #realwritersmarket … Skip Wiley had a well-known theory that the quality of life declined in direct proportion to the Asshole Quotient. According to Wiley’s reckoning, Miami had 134 total assholes per square mile, giving it the worst A.Q. in North America. In second place was Aspen, Colorado (101), with Malibu Beach, California, finishing third…
Aunt Lute Books Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Regional, Feminist auntlute.com auntlute.com/submissions books@auntlute.com submissions@auntlute.com Aunt Lute Books is a feminist press located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1982 by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss, the press actually got its beginnings in Iowa. Today, Aunt Lute continues to operate as an independent and…
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Please welcome the Godfather of Satire, Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal is his short masterpiece. Full title: A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick. Published anonymously by Swift in…
#themetamorphosis #kafka #franzkafka The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka about a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a giant, monstrous insect. The story explores themes of alienation, absurdity, and the burden of family, as Gregor’s family recoils from his new form, and he becomes…
by Murderously Philly… “Hi, my name is Ted” I say to everybody, “and I’m a serial killer.” “Hi, Ted,” says everybody. Everybody always says Hi. Welcome to Serial Killers Anonymous, a twelve-step program for rippers, rapers, stabbers, stranglers, axe murderers, chainsaw enthusiasts, and just about every type person who ever murdered over and over again,…
The following is an interview with bestselling author John Irving (The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, The Hotel New Hampshire), titled John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93, from the Paris Review. John Irving was interviewed in the cramped back room of his otherwise large and luxurious apartment in Manhattan. A…
Richard Cory by Edward Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said,…
Yes we know, this is a long-ass story. but we just love it so much. Diamond as Big as the Ritz, too! Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Jelly-Bean First published in 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age, the story follows Jim Powell, a lazy but likable young man in…
What’s that old saying? Oh yeah: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Here’s the thing. I just bought this house in Lexington, Mass., a small town about half an hour’s drive from where I live in Boston. And not just any house, but a two-story colonial that may very well…
You’re not going to find anyone who likes Dorothy Parker as much as we do. This is one of our favorite Dorothy Parker interviews, credit given to the Paris Review, the Art of Fiction No. 13, from way back in 1956. The interview starts at the very beginning INTERVIEWER: Your first job was on Vogue, wasn’t…
