One Story - on line Literary Magazine

[Sitaram]

I just discovered this while searching on Stephen Dixon.

It is an interesting site to browse. There is a fee for subscribing, but there is much to see at this site that is free. It might give you some ideas.


http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=about_us

About the editors:

Maribeth Batcha, Publisher

Maribeth Batcha has worked in magazine circulation for over 12 years. In 1999 she received her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts. She is currently finishing up the novel she began there. When she is not writing or working on One Story she acts as a publishing consultant for other literary magazines and teaches creative writing to high school students in the South Bronx.

Hannah Tinti, Editor

Hannah Tinti developed her editorial skills working at literary agencies and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review and Washington Square. She earned her MA from New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she was the fiction editor of Washington Square literary magazine. Her own work has appeared in Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Index, Epoch, Sonora Review, Story Quarterly, Another Magazine and Best American Mystery Stories 2003. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, was recently published by The Dial Press. For more information, please visit www.hannahtinti.com.

 

[Sitaram]

I also found this interesting link during my Stephen Dixon search:

http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/literary_minded/index.html

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Crime fiction and more

For example, the above link points to the following link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4856046.stm


(excerpt)

V.S. Naipaul's getting cranky in print again, lambasting Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and "worst writer in the world" Henry James. Look, he might not be writing novels anymore, but when did he become such a curmudgeon?

Naipaul said Thomas Hardy was "an unbearable writer" who "doesn't know how to compose a paragraph".

And Ernest Hemingway "was so busy being an American" he "didn't know where he was", he told the Literary Review.

The Trinidad-born UK writer, who was knighted in 1990, said his own writings had been neglected in his home country.

"England has not appreciated or acknowledged the work I have done," he said.

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001 and is best known for A House for Mr Biswas and the Booker Prize-winning In A Free State.

"English writing is very much of England, for the people of England, and is not meant to travel too far," said the 73-year-old author.

James Joyce
Naipaul criticised James Joyce in a previous interview
The author slates Dickens for his "repetitiveness" and cites the experience of reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as a revelatory one.

"I thought halfway through the book, 'Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love life.'

"I said to myself, 'What am I doing with this material? This is for somebody else, really."

But the author is more complimentary towards HG Wells, Mark Twain and his friend Harold Pinter.

It is not the first time the Literary Review has provided a platform for the author's strong opinions.

In 2001, he accused EM Forster of being a sexual predator and described Irish author James Joyce as incomprehensible.

Born in Trinidad in 1932, Naipaul came to England on a scholarship in 1950 and spent four years at University College, Oxford.

Despite the controversy surrounding his work, he is one of the most successful of the generation of writers who left the Caribbean in the 1950s.

 

[Sitaram]

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind (link above) also point to this link on the dark side of Shel Silverstein

http://www.banned-width.com/shel.html

Silverstein wrote the moving children’s book The Giving Tree which is actually quite spiritual in nature. That book inspired the following symposium

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9501/articles/givingtree.html


http://www.banned-width.com/shel/works/giving.html

Silverstein said in an interview:

"I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me. I think that if you're creative person, you should just go about your business, do your work and not care about how its received. I never read reviews because if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones too. Not that I don't care about success. I do, but only because it lets me do what I want. I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure too.

I have an ego, I have ideas, I want to be articulate, to communicate but in my own way. People who say they create only for themselves and don't care if they are published...I hate to hear talk like that. If it's good, it's too good not to share. That's the way I feel about my work.

So I'll keep on communicating, but only my way. Lots of things I won't do. I won't go on television because who am I talking to? Johnny Carson? The camera? Twenty million people I can't see? Uh-uh. And I won't give any more interviews."

-- Shel Silverstein, From Publishers Weekly, February 24, 1974

 

[StillILearn]

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(nota bene: this is a joke*)

*joke Pronunciation (j^k) n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
b. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
v. joked, jok·ing, jokes
v.intr.
1. To tell or play jokes; jest.
2. To speak in fun; be facetious.
v.tr.
To make fun of; tease.
[Latin iocus; see yek- in Indo-European roots.]

 

[StillILearn]

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