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pachydermini:

donate some money ($) to get a pdf of these stories for you to assemble into little books.

(Reblogged from pachydermini)
Why read? Are stories essential? Read the article “Do We Need Stories?” by Tim Parks, featured in the New York Review of Books to get some insight to many opinions on why. The Short Answer: The internet presents a deafening roar of LISTEN TO ME, and we listen. Why not listen, instead, for a small part of your day, to someone who took their time to craft something that you might learn from, instead of the constant yammering of those who postpostpost? The beauty is in the question here, though, not the answer. The Long Answer: Read the article!

Why read? Are stories essential? Read the article “Do We Need Stories?” by Tim Parks, featured in the New York Review of Books to get some insight to many opinions on why. The Short Answer: The internet presents a deafening roar of LISTEN TO ME, and we listen. Why not listen, instead, for a small part of your day, to someone who took their time to craft something that you might learn from, instead of the constant yammering of those who postpostpost? The beauty is in the question here, though, not the answer. The Long Answer: Read the article!

“B*tches in Bookshops”, based on Jay-Z/Kanye West’s “N*ggas in Paris” —

Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology

Wesley Scroggins on Banning Books from school Curriculums, including Slaughterhouse-Five

Like Huck Finn, since Slaughterhouse-Five has been published, it has been heralded as well as highly criticized, and even often times on a local level, banned. This is a brief editorial by a business school professor who is writing about how the school district in his Missouri town of Republic should ban certain books from their library and curriculum, SH5 included.. A British newspaper, The Guardian, wrote an article about Scroggins editorial here.

Mike Young reading at the DC Zoo this past February.

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I’ve been speculating about a sort of anti-video game… In lieu of your typical prostitutes, pistol whipping, etcetera, what I’d like to see invented is a game in which the player controls a desert. The sensitive ecosystem of a desert. The slow, imminent sand.
Principal Bernam from Mike Young’s short story “The World Doesn’t Smell Like You”

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MAY is SHORT STORY month. Celebrate.

Celebrate by reading short stories!

Some stories by MATT BELL, a new & emerging writer of short stories, are available for your Kindle/e-book reader for only $0.99! Try them out, love them, and then buy his whole book.

If you liked Tao Lin’s novella, check out his book of short stories, Bed. Then, review it on Amazon.

And finally, dig the great American writer Flannery O’Conner. Read her excellent short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, on the web! She’s a classic, twentieth century American writer who is worth every word/pixel on the page.