Archive for April, 2009

Pink Icing by Pamela Mordecai

April 30, 2009
By Nik Korpon
Pink Icing by Pamela Mordecai

One of Pamela Mordecai’s biggest strengths as a writer is her ability to disappear. So, you’re thinking, ‘Wow, that’s the most backhanded compliment I’ve read.’ But it’s true. She writes in the Caribbean dialect, which is challenging to read initially. Once you relax your eyes, though, and settle into her voice, the rhythm of her...
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Nik Jones’s 9987

April 29, 2009
By Nik Korpon
Nik Jones’s <em>9987</em>

‘The Queen’s face is spattered with blood. This is strange for a Wednesday.’ In 9987, the debut novel from Nik Jones, there’s the pervading sense of everything being slightly…off. We follow the unnamed narrator through his frequently meaningless life: from his Total Rental video store, to his cramped bedsit, to the house of his parents,...
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Not Your Bitch–Poetry Series #11

April 29, 2009
By Scot Young
Not Your Bitch–Poetry Series #11

Featuring Lyn Lifshin MAYBE VENUS DE MILO WASN’T HAPPY WITH HERS So with one gone, at least, she could pose not showing what was no longer what it was. Arms. Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
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The In Here by Connor Stratman

April 28, 2009
By OWCAdmin
The In Here by Connor Stratman

Don’t be in much of a rush, my friend. This is going to be a long and terrible journey. Nobody told you that you were leaving, but you don’t have much of a choice. But where are we going? I couldn’t say. Share: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and...
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Before Postmodernism and After (Part 2) by Raymond Federman

April 27, 2009
By OWCAdmin
Before Postmodernism and After (Part 2) by Raymond Federman

I started part 1 of this paper in the middle of a quotation,  I will start part 2 also in the middle of a quotation, and I will probably finish this presentation in the middle of another quotation.  For, as we know from having lived and studied Postmodernism, quotations were central and essential to...
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