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Ever wondered how a fox would sound if it could speak? – Fox 8 by George Saunders — SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES

Look, I found another blog post about George Saunders. I am still deep in the throws of infatuation. Half way through Pastoralia, which I will no doubt want to discuss. In the meantime, please enjoy someone else’s views on Fox 8. Fox 8 – A Story, by George Saunders (Hardcover: publisher: Random House; First Edition … Continue reading Ever wondered how a fox would sound if it could speak? – Fox 8 by George Saunders — SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES →

Campfires of the Dead – Peter Christopher

Came across a reference to Peter Christopher in Consider This by Palahnuik. Christopher taught Palahnuik to write in first person but ‘submerge the I.’  Sounds like great life advice, never mind writing.

Somehow Christopher’s slipped away, out of print. This link/reblog contains a Christopher short story called Flight. I would love to read more.

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This book is probably the best example of these unfairly forgotten books and of a great writer few knew and who is no longer with us to share his words and sentences.

Peter Christopher was a Lish student from the Columbia U days (along with Amy Hempel, Christopher Coe and Anderson Ferrell), whose collection,Campfires of the Dead (1989) is as fine a first volume of short stories as any of the best being released today via the Flannery O’Connor Award, the AWP Awards,  Drue Heinz, Juniper, Dzanc, or the Iowa Short Fiction Award.  The fifteen stories were developed in Lish’s class and published in either The Quarterly or a special issue of StoryQuarterly that Lish edited.  We remember well, in 1989, finding this book in a Los Angeles store and getting giddy when reading it. Where did this whacky gfeat fun stuff come from? They are quirky stories about…

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Let George Saunders read you a bedtime story about the true meaning of Christmas. — Literary Hub

https://www.youtube.com/embed/l0CedlPRsng?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent You may not know this, but George Saunders is a holiday writer: he writes about trying to bring joy to people you love and messing it up. In “My Flamboyant Grandson,” a grandfather risks governmental discipline to smuggle his grandson into the musical extravaganza “Babar Sings”; in the personal essay “Chicago Christmas, 1984,” a young…Let … Continue reading Let George Saunders read you a bedtime story about the true meaning of Christmas. — Literary Hub →

At what temperature do digital books burn? Asking for a friend.

I feel like a bad mum. I took my son’s phone away. He was reading fantasy books online and I didn’t like it. Wow. Hi my name’s Jackie and I’m a book denier. That doesn’t feel good at all. I learnt to read when I was three. No, really. At least, there was a book … Continue reading At what temperature do digital books burn? Asking for a friend. →