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In This Issue

FICTION

How We Remember by Miranda Train

Garden by Susan Tepper

NON-FICTION

Understanding My Kenya by Bitsy

Oriovac by Catherine Kanjer Kapphahn

POETRY

Firecrackers by S.G. Frazier

The Hello Girls by KC Trommer

INTERVIEWS

Matthew Cheney by Nita Noveno

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NYC | May 11, 2008

Please join us for a special Mother's Day Salon celebrating Issue Six of The Mom Egg! Raw and real, lively and lustful, The Mom Egg ...

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Chicago | April 27, 2008

You won't want to miss the literary talent in Chi-town this Sunday! The powerhouse lineup includes a renowned Iraqi novelist, a veteran crime writer, ...

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Nairobi | April 20, 2008

Nairobi glows incandescent with four more writers at this month's reading. The luminary literary lineup includes: an architect turned journalist, a travel writer from ...

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Poets & Poetry in Sunday Salon!

The literary gods sent four talented writers and poets to grace the stage and the audience at April's Sunday Salon! Relishing the prose of Paul Pines, Janice Erlbaum, Myla Jones, and Ed Pavlic, were celebrated poets, Yusuf Komunyakaa and Major ...

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Girls Write Now at The New School, March 8, 5-7pm

Every girl has a voice. Join us to ...

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Matt Cheney

INTERVIEWED BY NITA NOVENO

One of the most fascinating minds wrapped around science fiction today, Matt Cheney is a columnist for the online magazine Strange Horizons, series editor of Best American Fantasy from Prime Books, and has a few things to say about his beloved genre.

Nita Noveno: When did you first discover science fiction?

Matt Cheney: Most people for whom genre fiction becomes an obsession start out young, and I'm no exception to that rule. I was an awkward, nerdy kid who liked reading and writing, and I started with mysteries and horror stories, but then my mother's boss decided a kid like me should read something intellectually engaging and loaned me an issue ...

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So many good books to read these days. Where to start? Check out our latest reviews, books by alumni and tempting recommendations.

Ask the Dust

By René Georg Vasicek
Ask the Dust is a dangerous book. Arturo Bandini, the narrator, is a terrorist of the mind. He explodes reality and makes you believe in the urgency of now: "Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town."

I didn't think literature was possible in Los Angeles, and then I read Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante. At the time I thought I was finished with American novels, too busy devouring the Europeans: Knut Hamsun, Robert Musil, Bohumil Hrabal, Thomas Bernhard, W.G. Sebald. Then one day I was killing time ...

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