What happens when you about double the character count in a Twister? I don’t know. That sounds like nuclear physics. In the writing sense, however, you get a “matchbook story” – and apparently that’s what I’ve done. However, I don’t see any matchbook. Publishing a short story on a matchbook cover? That’s cool. Or it [...]
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Matchbook Stories
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Twitter on the Radio
I recently did an interview with CKUT here in Montreal. You can link to the interview here. I appear at the 43 minute mark (approximately). The interview runs for about 12 minutes. I talk about Twitter, about writing and social media, about the changes in writing and The Writer brought about by the immediacy of [...]
New Short Story at Joylandmagazine.com
Joyland is a great online fiction magazine that edits regionally. What does that mean? Different cities have different editors and they all publish stories to create the magazine. Anyhow, I have a new short story up, published today (link here). This is the story that was a finalist for the Sidney Prize, though it’s been [...]
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Come to A Virtual Reading
Yes. This is an invitation. I told you recently that a short story I had written had been a finalist for the Sidney Prize. Well, I didn’t win. But that’s not the point of this. Shindig is a new kind of website that wants to become, well, a lot of things – in the manner [...]
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I Make an Appearance in an Indian Magazine
There’s a whole lot of Bollywood stuff here. And then some people who sound smart. And then there’s me. Oh well, someone’s got to bell curve smart things. Now, I want to know who all the ladies in these graphs are. And, frankly, what the graphs mean. Someone enlighten me.
The International TwistOff
I had almost forgotten about this and I’m glad it was brought to my attention. Last fall, Rahul Khanna, someone I’ve never met but have “met” on Twitter, suggested we collaborate on a story on Twitter, a kind of international “twistoff” (I can’t remember who came up with that but like everything else on Twitter, [...]
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“His tweets cannot possibly work as stories”
Or so says this review in some new online magazine about “underground Canadian art.” And it’s named after a fish. I wish them well.
The Casual (but awesome) Mention in the New Yorker
I met Blake Eskin last year during a convention in Minneapolis. His talk was about how he puts the New Yorker’s website together, about real time reporting, stuff like that. I wanted to meet him. And then he came up to me and told me he loved my Twitter feed. Well, I was a bit [...]
