7/06/2007

twenty grand by rebecca curtis

i like this book, it is rebecca curtis' first book, a story-collection; you can read some of the stories online (big bear, california; the wolf at the door; twenty grand; the alpine slide; the witches)

some books if i haven't read them in a while i get urges to want to read them; the amount of time until i get urges is between like a few months, or less, and around a year, and i think continues at least five years and maybe something like forty years or until i die (some of the books below i think i like more each time i read them)

a complete list i think of story-collections which i feel this way about is taking care, escapes, and honored guest by joy williams; shiloh and other stories by bobbie ann mason; break it down by lydia davis; like life by lorrie moore; collected stories by richard yates; distortions by ann beattie; the task of this translator by todd hasak-lowy; twenty grand by rebecca curtis (also i feel like this about stories by me and individual other stories including ones listed here or posted here)

3/23/2007

gene morgan & other things

I am going to blog about Gene Morgan. Gene blogged about Ellen and I and Eeeee Eee Eeee. Gene's lung collapsed. I know three people whose lungs have collapsed. Gene, Nick, and me. Gene started Bear Parade one year ago.

Gene has never asked me to change my writing. I don't think I have ever asked Gene what he thinks about my writing. For a while I thought that Gene did not like my writing that much, but then gradually he started to say that he liked my writing. I think one time I took the bear poem out of my book and Gene was sad and then I put the bear poem back and Gene was happy. I'm not completely sure if it really happened like that.

I am going to blog about some other things now. I want to write more books. I want to write different books. I think my next novel is different. I also would like to edit a short-story anthology. I want to do that so I can have a book that has all the things I want to read inside of it. I want these stories to be in my short-story anthology.
Graveyard Day
by Bobbie Ann Mason

Raider Nation
by Todd Hasak-Lowy

1993-94
by Curtis Sittenfeld

Driver
by Frederick Barthelme

La Pena
by Deb Olin Unferth

The Wolf At The Door
by Rebecca Curtis

Shifting
by Ann Beattie

Bienvenido el Duende
by Trinie Dalton

With Hitler in New York
by Richard Grayson

You're Ugly, Too & Escape from the Invasion of the Love Killers
by Lorrie Moore

Five Signs of Disturbance
by Lydia Davis

China
by Charles Johnson

Train & Honored Guest & Charity
by Joy Williams
I liked making that list. I'm not sure. I think I would add more Joy Williams stories. I thought about it right now and there are not any short stories that are exactly what I want to read. I think maybe Curtis Sittenfeld's story might be close to what I exactly want to read, but I only want to read that kind of story sometimes, and less now than maybe two years ago. Todd Hasak-Lowy's story is a little like what I exactly want to read but I would change some things about it if I were writing it, but I'm not sure how I would change them. Joy Williams is close to exactly what I want to read but some things in her stories are things that are not exactly what I want to read. I want to write exactly what I want to read. It seems like that should be easy and not take any work except for the time it takes to type it, but I think it takes longer than that because what I want is something that will also surprise me because it is smarter than me. If I read something and it is exactly what I say I want to read I don't think it would actually be exactly what I want to read. I think I have written some things that are exactly what I want to read. But things become less powerful each time I read them.

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