COVER REVEAL: Norman Conquest's WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM, OR HE TO HECUBA?, coming in September in our "Sagging Shorts" series of pocket books. Preorder at asterismbooks.com/product/whats-hecuba-to-...
Merrill Joan Gerber, happy with her recent books.
In @psychologytoday.com , Susan Perry talks with Merrill Joan Gerber about her life as a writer, her new collection SOMEONE SHOULD KNOW THIS STORY, small press publishing, and having her archives at Yale. https://is.gd/SD34dL
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Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign
TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE
John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown
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"If you can’t be sure that your dinner won’t escape, then you need to make sure they’re already dead—no ifs, ands, or buts."
Carnivorous fiction from Gina DeMartino. Subscribe today.
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"It becomes part of our individual geography: one that is moulded by the landscape of another’s mind."
@cclarklewes.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane's 'Inland'. Subscribe today.
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This is the correct headgear.
“It was not Nelle Harper dropping him, it was Truman going away from her.”
Kat Meads on Nelle Harper Lee, the real and the fictional. Exacting Clam 20. Digital-only subscriptions now available.
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"It's time for us to die."
Thomas Walton's thoughts are getting unsavoury-er. Exacting Clam 20. Subscribe for full online access to each issue. Digital-only subscriptions now available.
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Recommend @exactingclam.bsky.social's new issue (delighted it has my Murnane essay in it), not least for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social's essay on friendship and envying artists 👇🦋🐚
"It’s possible that we have to remain in the dark, ignorant, we have to stay dumb long enough to regenerate the species."
Thomas Walton's unsavory thoughts. issue 20, out now. Digital-only subscriptions now available.
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"The image of the grass having a simple call, like a bird, is straightforward, charming and distinctly inventive. Which is to say, typical Simic."
Kurt Luchs on Charles Simic. Issue 20.
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That’s me
"One envies other lives for the subterranean reason that makes all life so difficult: death."
@jgoldsmith.bsky.social on 'Envying Artists'. Issue 20, out now.
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Out now. Issue 20's magnificent cover is by Leigh Gore and Tyler C. Gore. Go to the website to choose your new, low-cost digital subscription or an enhanced print subscription (that now includes digital). Full access to entire issues online!
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here's a glimpse of my short story Artemis at the venerable @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Big news! Not only is Issue 20 out today, but from here on in you can create your own account on the website, where all issues will soon be available in their entirety. Some already are. Plus digital-only subscriptions at a much, much lower price!
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Wherein, at the invitation of @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, I write about twelve brilliant stories by twelve brilliant writers, some of whom are alive @egangoonsquad.bsky.social @theactualemma.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social.
Cover art by Leigh Gore, design by Tyler C.Gore: collage including corn field, thatched barn in a tree with a staircase in the trunk , butterflies, flowers, folk from black and white photos, musical instruments, cats of course
A first sign of Spring from @exactingclam.bsky.social
My minor obsession with medieval saints continues with A Meeting in the Groves of Assisi, out now in the brilliant @exactingclam.bsky.social. St Francis, a man of mood swings, meets St Clare amongst the olive trees. Romance? To order Issue 20 follow this link www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
It's always a good day when the Clam arrives.
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Read a review in @exactingclam.bsky.social of @margoberdeshevsky.bsky.social's IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
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Read BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH - one of our annual Sukenick Contest winners! fc2.org/authors/berd...
One of four new Nightjars coming in March.
Painting of Keats House in London by Wend Rend. Exacting Clam magazine. Essay titled Envying Artists by Jake Goldsmith
My essay 'Envying Artists' is available now in Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
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You can now read "Eulalio Salmantino, 1921-2000" in the spring issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Very grateful to Guillermo and Jacob.
Huge thanks to @exactingclam.bsky.social for publishing my essay 'Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland'
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My story in the latest @exactingclam.bsky.social issue is constructed around a sleep cycle. Each paragraph's length and character is dictated by a corresponding sleep stage, and each contains one object from "The Pea Test" aka "The Princess and the Pea" www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
My essay on art, artists, and friendship is out now via @exactingclam.bsky.social
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And of course, Tributaries grew out of a column in Exacting Clam — long may it continue!
