Short Short Contest:
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Sonora Review is given annually for a short short story. Joe Wenderoth will judge. Submit a story of up to 1,000 words with a $15 entry fee, which includes a copy of the Summer 2010 issue of Sonora Review, by March 15. Include a cover page with your full name and current address.
Send Submissions To:
Sonora Review. Short Short Story Contest
Department of English, University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
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Check out local poet, Richard Siken , reading some poems hosted by From the Fishhouse.
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Mixing beauty and intellectual discovery the constant critic.
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I was fumbling around the Hayden’s Ferry blog, our Arizona partners in literary finessness ((new word?) fitnazzness!)) and saw this amazing link:
literary quotes combined with television shots… success!
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We’re printing and will be shipping mid February, meaning all orders will be filled this month or i’ll eat my own hand and vomit handsauce all over my new green cotton sheets and all babies will cry etc… we’ll also be making the trip to awp with issue 55/56/57 and back issues. Basically, we’re lady gaga’s antithesis, all work with late production.
This is what I will look like if we don’t get it shipped (in the next week or so):
-Jake Levine
(image by A. Shuta, our blog designer and quality human being)
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An excellent review/takedown (reviewdown?) of James Wood’s How Fiction Works, a book that the instructors at the University of Arizona have, for lack of a better phrase, been shoving down our throats the past year or so. My feelings are that it’s a worthwhile book so long as you realize that its title is a complete misnomer. A useful rule of thumb to remember about critics is the only thing that separates them from you is they’ve read more books. James Wood’s read a lot of books, and he likes Saul Bellow. I’ve read a lot of books (admittedly probably one-hundredth of the number Wood has read) and I like John Hawkes. Wood’s definition of “how fiction works” is depressingly narrow, and would make me want to give up the venture entirely were it not for this: he’s incorrect. Fiction is not about–never about–one thing. That’s why it’s still here.
–Jonathon Walter
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1961 Time Magazine Cover of J.D. Salinger
With the recent passing of one of America’s most beloved (and vehemently despised, but nevertheless indisputably influential) authors – according to The Guardian’s Robert McCrum “the fall of a Giant Sequoia in the National Park of American letters” – I encourage readers of The Sonora Review to check out the below articles, some of the better articles that have surfaced in the past few years, as well as amongst the vast outpouring since January 27, 2010.
From The New York Review of Books, an extensive discussion in response to Salinger’s critics, published in 2001.
From The New York Times, a 2009 essay on the contemporary (ir)relevance of The Catcher in the Rye, & from the NYTimes blog, the voices of contemporary teenagers on the book.
From Slate.com, an article on The Catcher in the Rye, which, despite never having been officially made into a major motion picture, has, along with the fictional members of Salinger’s Glass family, influenced a variety of writers and directors (most notably, Wes Anderson) for decades.
From Denver Music Blog, a look at Salinger’s legacy in the music industry.
From the NYTimes, Salinger’s neighbors in Cornish, N.H., remember him.
Stephen Colbert on Salinger’s celebrity.
A close reading of Vickery’s portrait, now hanging in the Smithsonian.
-Whitney DeVos
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At Bad Eminence, a lengthy, well-written post on the somewhat contentious (but always respectful) argument between William Gass and John Gardner on the purpose of fiction. I am in Gass’ camp, myself, but it’s worthwhile to note that his fiction and his theories on same often contradict each other; just because Gass has doubts about the importance of such nebulous concepts as “character”, “plot” and “meaning” doesn’t mean that he eschews them in his own work. I in fact would argue that Gass’ work in the short story form is among the greatest that has been produced by an American in the second half of the last century, worthy of being ranked with Carver, O’Connor and other masters. His two novels are both, in their own way, practically without compare. Omensetter’s Luck is the closest thing we have to a Midwestern Faulkner and The Tunnel is such a tour-de-force of metaphor and peculiar linguistic construction that the OED itself might seem starved for words by comparison.
Gardner’s work has not aged as well. Grendel is clever and remains an excellent read, but October Light is one of the worst, most hideously didactic books I’ve ever read. On Moral Fiction, his infamous treatise on the aforementioned subject of fiction’s purpose, happens to be an excellently written argument–but nevertheless one I don’t agree with a single word of.
–Jonathon Walter
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