by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 23, 2010 | novels, Pam Houston, stories |
I’m trying not to search for structure. I’m trying just to write. I wrote a few pages this morning. With the other things I’ve written, I’ve seen the structure from the very beginning. As I type these words, I realize: I’ve also seen the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 28, 2010 | place, stories |
I just finished the third wonderful debut collection in as many months. Which I think is truly remarkable. As are the ten connected stories in Tracy Winn’s Mrs. Somebody Somebody, published in 2009 by SMU Press with Random House recently publishing the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 26, 2010 | craft of writing, essays, memoir, poetry, reading, stories |
with new pages! #1: What’s in it for me? #2: What’s happening? #3: What’s in a cover? I’ve subscribed to One Story since 2004. Plus, I try to subscribe to 3-4 other literary journals. And I mix it up from year to year. If we don’t...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 14, 2010 | place, stories, time |
Nine stories make up New Orleans’ writer Barb Johnson’s wonderful debut collection of linked stories, More of This World or Maybe Another. In the first and title story, Delia is the narrator and we meet her boyfriend Calvin and his sister Charlene, who goes by...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 30, 2010 | stories |
When I heard that Robin Black was going to be the Sirenland Fellow for 2009 and that she had published a story in One Story, I moved quickly to my back issues and began to thumb through. I only save the stories I love and pass the others forward. Of course I’d...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 29, 2010 | catching moments, journeys, stories, the day |
Today is the birthday of an author of a book–Robin Black. Her last birthday she was not the author of a book. Just like that it can happen. And get your pencils out. You need to write this one down too: If I loved you, I would tell you this. Each of the 10...
