July 14, 2011
by Magen Toole
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Photo by Melissa Dominic So I was out at a mall the other day. I’m not much of a shopper (I’d rather be at the movies or the zoo, or palms pressed against the glass at the aquarium) but I … Continue reading
July 14, 2011
by Magen Toole
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SESSION TWO: NOEL GAYLE, INTERVIEWED BY MELISSA DOMINIC. Recovering from a lack of time for writing (which he used as the focus of his blogging), Noel Gayle takes time out to discuss his influences and work, his history and goals, … Continue reading
July 13, 2011
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What is The Summer Sessions? The Summer Sessions is a project I organized in Summer 2010 with the help of Melissa Dominic, bringing authors, poets, photographers and artists together under a common theme: A desire to create. This year’s project … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
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I started losing weight philosophically in November 2010, at the start of the Great Unemployment Crisis. (Some of you may remember it. What a barrel of monkeys that was.) I did it by changing my habits and getting rid of … Continue reading
July 6, 2011
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Florida came and went in a flash, like a scatter of Polaroids on the kitchen floor. Airports, highways, palm trees. Damp air and sunshine and early morning tea, and quiet nights spent sleeping next to somebody I love very much. … Continue reading
June 28, 2011
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I’m not here right now. I’m in Florida with Melissa Dominic (pictured above). We’re going to the zoo and the aquarium and have a picnic and eat sushi and maybe even go bowling. I hear I’m also supposed to sit … Continue reading
June 20, 2011
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Yury Shpakovski People keep telling me that a happy artist is a stagnant artist. A content writer is a writer with nothing important to say. I have no idea if happiness makes you lazy. I was born discontent. And … Continue reading
June 15, 2011
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Last summer, when I was still slugging through the first draft of Flesh Trap, I took a few weeks off to write about a guy named Jason. Jason had a business degree that landed him $30,000 in debt and a … Continue reading
June 13, 2011
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It’s nice to be other people for a change. When I was a kid, I used to change my accent to something else. A random accent, something I’d picked up from movies or television, or from people walking down the … Continue reading
June 12, 2011
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So I was sitting around pondering these stupid books I keep writing and thinking to myself, “Self, how would you go about making your second novel even more ridiculous than the first one?” Because the first book has psychedelic dream … Continue reading