Monday, March 14, 2016

Book Review: DAVID BEZMOZGIS, "The Betrayers"

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BOOK REVIEW David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers (NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2014) The book begins with a Russian expression on a...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Samples of Quality Writing, ALETHEA BLACK, "You On a Good Day"

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ALETHEA BLACK “You On a Good Day,” by Alethea Black Published in “One Story,” #163, April 23, 2012 This is a story written t...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Russian Folk Ditty (Частушка) "Веселая"

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Russian folk ditty with English translation: Я веселая, веселая,  веселая всегда, Не болит мое сердечко Ни о ком и никогда....

ЧАСТУШКА: A Russian Folk Ditty, with Translation into English

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Russian folk ditties with translations: (частушки) Я бы вышла за Хрущева, Но боюсь я одного. Говорят, что вместо х... Кукуруза у него...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Bits and Pieces of Good Fiction Writing: GEORGE SAUNDERS

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Bits and Pieces of Good Writing: George Saunders The story is “Mother’s Day,” in The New Yorker , Feb. 8 and 15, 2016, p. 84-92. It’...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Book Review: Vladimir Nabokov, LETTERS TO VERA

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BOOK REVIEW Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 [Note: for ease in typing I have throughout omitted the...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Literary Sparks from Deirdre McNamer, "MY RUSSIAN"

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LITERARY SPARKS THAT FLARE UP INTO FLAMES: DEIRDRE MCNAMER You read something, the words flash at you; they spark creativity in your ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

CREATIVE SPARKS, FROM VLADIMIR NABOKOV

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MORE CREATIVE SPARKS, FROM VLADIMIR NABOKOV Sometimes when you’re reading a creative writer, just a few words set off the sparks in ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

PICKING UP CREATIVE SPARKS FROM HILLARY MANTEL

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PICKING UP SPARKS, THEN SPARKING NEW SPARKS A story by Hillary Mantel, “The Present Tense,” London Review of Books , Jan. 7, 2016 I...
Friday, December 18, 2015

FICTION WORKS PUBLISHED IN THE PAST YEAR, U.R. BOWIE

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За последний год я напечатал 4 произведения худ . прозы (over the past year I’ve published four works of creative literary fiction...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

"THE TALE OF THE BASTARD FEVERFEW," new novel by U.R. Bowie

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Novel published November, 2015, available at Amazon as paperback or e-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Bastard-Feverfew-Journey...

U.R. Bowie, Fiction Editor

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As of January 1, 2016, U.R. Bowie will be fiction editor of the literary journal, Bacopa.
Monday, October 26, 2015

Something in the Way of a Parricide (on Dostoevsky)

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Dobuzhinsky Illustration to "White Nights" This semi-fictional piece on Dostoevsky is included in my forthcoming book:  ...