Posts Tagged “short stories”
Where are you, Amanda Briggs?
by Morgan on January 25, 2012
In the 2010 Fiction issue of The Atlantic, there was a story called The Landscape of Pleasure, by Amanda Briggs, and I loved it. I read it and loved it, and then I lost it. I’d bought the magazine right (…)
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Small town murder weekend
by Morgan on March 20, 2011
It’s Sunday morning. I’d planned to wake up early, head to Fix for a coffee, and then go down to Sunset to watch some of the marathon. But it was pouring rain and freezing when I woke up at 7:30. (…)
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Swamplandia! fail
by Morgan on March 5, 2011
People have been asking me what I think of Swamplandia!, as I may, possibly, have been the most excited person on the planet for its release. So here’s my official response: ehn. It’s okay. ‘Ava Wrestles the Alligator’ was pure (…)
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A word about Barry Hannah, please
by Morgan on January 17, 2011
Barry Hannah is consistently cited as the best writer out of the South since Faulkner, since O’Connor, a writer born of the territory they mapped; but I think he’s better than both. Faulkner invented Southern Gothic, but if we’re being (…)
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