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... 
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 13, 2010 | reading, stories |
Last spring I was trying to find a way to thank readers who took the time to add to the conversation here. One Story, I thought. For one year, I would send the reader who posted the most comments for the month a one-year subscription to One Story, my favorite journal.... 
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 19, 2010 | craft of writing, shapes, stories, time |
15 stories in this slim volume from Amy Hempel published in 1985. Only 3 of the 15 written in third; the rest, in first. My clear favorite is the first-person story “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried.” It’s nicely developed and goes deeper...