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Readings from Misplaced Alice

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Originally published on July 1, 2002

Listen to some short shorts from Matt Brigg’s new collection.

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What Happened to the Miracle

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Originally published on October 1, 2001

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And Venus is Blue

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Originally published on August 1, 2001

Unlike the stock detail of William Gay’s Provinces of Night, which wears its Southerness like a Confederate flag iron-on decal, And Venus Is Blue emanates The South as a region and a place where people live and things go on with or without a genuine short story writer to take it all down. The stories [...]

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The House Rules of the American Short Story

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Originally published on June 1, 2001

If you follow these rules, you are guaranteed to produce an American Short Story Masterpiece. Begin with both feet on the ground. Grab the reader by the throat and don’t let go until they are gasping for breath or pass out. Clearly identify in your own mind, “What is at stake for the protagonist?” (see [...]

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Honeymoon and Other Stories

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Originally published on June 1, 2001

Despite the odd fact that Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway have both been tagged with the term “realistic writer,” both write as if they are more concerned with style and form than any kind of fidelity to experience as actually lived by living, breathing people. The fact that they foregrounded technique in this way essentially [...]

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