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New Yorker Fiction Can Be Good

I had a conversation with my good friend Jeff recently — not a wholly original conversation — about the inconsistent pleasures of reading fiction in “The New Yorker.” Just today, I cracked open my latest issue and read the story “Bad Neighbors” from Edward P. Jones.
It’s a good story.

Posted 07 August 2006 † gordon § Authors § Lessons § Reading § Writing § Writing craft ‡ Comments (1)

Confessions of an Unpublished Mind

Now that things are under way at After the MFA, it’s only fair to come clean about something.
Unless you count my high school literary journal — of which I happened to be editor-in-chief — I have never been published in a literary journal or magazine.
Wait. Before you drop your laptop on the ground and storm [...]

Posted 01 August 2006 † gordon § Publishing § Rants § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (7)