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PANK Magazine has just launched its March 2010 issue, featuring several short pieces of mine. These are situated somewhere along the continuum of “flash fiction,” “microfiction,” “short-shorts,” and “prose poems”–all the ambiguous appellations of a booming sub-genre. Many an essay promotes or derides this form’s new-found popularity, and I can’t quite say how I feel about its ascendancy. Of course, my mixed feelings have done nothing to stop me from writing in it.
What say ye, readers? Is the sudden preponderance of unusually brief fiction a blessing, a curse, or merely an annoyance?
(PANK is also in the excellent habit of interviewing all its authors on its blog, so you can expect a bewildering Q&A with yours truly in weeks to come.)
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II.
Though he’s too shy to say it, HSG’s Alex Rose has an essay on directors’ cuts, “Auteurs Gone Wild,” in the latest issue of The American Scholar. Click here to read it.
Just kidding. It’s only in print. Go out and buy it.
