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New Fiction on Guernica
I’m not sure how m
any fiction pieces I’ve edited at Guernica–maybe about 100 (an exhausting thing to contemplate).
This week, we have Leora Skolkin-Smith’s short story, “The Fragile Mistress,” which is an excerpt from the novel of the same name.
Provenance on this one is difficult: it’s an unpublished excerpt from a previously published novel (published by Grace Paley in 2005). That novel was called Edges.
The book has since been expanded to include other scenes that had been cut (you could call the newer version a writer’s cut, I suppose).
The novel was re-titled. Now it’s called The Fragile Mistress and will soon be published in the U.K.
Also, it will soon be a movie; it’s now in pre-production with Triboro Pictures and will be shot in the Middle East, along with New York and London.
What’s it about? Isreal and Jordan in 1963. A girl and her disappearance. Stuff of which great stories are made.
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Reading: Hosting Park-Lit in Union Sq
Park-Lit has a simple concept: writers read from their work, outside, in a public park. At 6:30 on the 21st, Guernica (in association with Park-Lit) will be having a reading in Union Square Park. (On the south side, right in the thick of things, near the Washington statue).
The readers:
Joshua Kors (nonfiction)
Terese Svoboda (poetry)
Alexander Chee (fiction)
More about the readers and who they are (they’re fabulous, by the way) at the Park-Lit site.
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PEN World Voices and Guernica: A recap
Novelist Claire Messud (who was guest-editor at Guernica recently) led a panel discussion on women, diversity, and literature. I’ll let another Guernica writer Lorraine Adams sum up the event. Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Messud, Guernica, guernicamag.com, Lorraine Adams, Pen World Voices, Public Reading
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Claire Messud in Guernica
It’s been busy at Guernica. I’ve been working on a Claire Messud guest-edited section. It’s fantastic and suggest you read. The comments section is burning up. . .
Women make up 80 percent of the fiction reading audience in this country. So why, guest fiction editor Claire Messud asks, are women authors so frequently left off the best-of lists, and left out of prestigious book prizes?
The Caine Prize, E.C., and Me
I wrote about the the recent Caine Prize for African Writing award for the Guernica blog.
Spoiler Alert (not really, it could hardly be a surprised, I’d imagine): I say that my favorite thing about the award is that the short story was unsolicited.
Read my essay about E.C. winning the Caine Prize for African Writing HERE
Read EC’s Guernica story HERE
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Tagged Guernica, guernicamag.com, writing
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