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Flash Fiction Forward: it ain’t the length itself that bugs me, but there are some disturbing correlations…

By seanvansickel September 7, 2015Reading Journal

Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories by James Thomas (edt) I approached this critically acclaimed collection of flash fiction with as much honest impartiality as a true-born cynic such…

Reading Log: ‘Thrice Fiction No. 9’, Free Literature, and the Pleasures and Irritations of Finding the Cutting Edge

By seanvansickel April 9, 2015Reading Journal2 Comments

http://www.thricefiction.com/ Thrice Fiction is a free lit mag. They publish some damn good stories, most of which can be defined as short-shorts (...not those kind of short-shorts) or longer flash…

Reading Log: Tin House 57 (WILD)

By seanvansickel April 6, 2015Reading Journal

Tin House #15: Tin House: Wild, Volume 15, Number 1 by Win Mccormack (edt) I’m sold. A subscription to Tin house is definitely in my immediate future (as soon as…

Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors: a semi-cantankerous review

By seanvansickel November 8, 2014Uncategorized2 Comments

I was really disappointed by this book. Granted, I read it immediately following The Pugilist at Rest, and I feel like anything I read next would have seemed a bit…

Thom Jones’s The Pugilist at Rest

By seanvansickel November 3, 2014Uncategorized

This is my favorite book of the year, bar none. A few authors have left me disturbed after reading (Carver, Tobias Wolfe, John Darnielle) but Thom Jones literally brought tears…

Podcast Roundup Part 1: Stories

By seanvansickel October 20, 2014Uncategorized1 Comment

(I love podcasts. I listen around 2 or 3 hours a day, between my commute, time at the gym, and household chores. I’ll be going over my favorites in the…