Would any fiction writer I know find good use in the expression "needs must," as in, "Well, if needs must then we'll do that horrid thing we don't want to do..."?


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The problem with Poetry (the magazine) is that I adore about one in ten to one in eight of the poems they run. Perhaps it's because I'm superficial and decadent and slanted and neurosthenic, but I'd rather paw through something I like half of then to go through an entire issue and find three poems I want to save forever and dozens I'm utterly ( Read more... )

I have been to hundreds and hundreds of readings of fiction or poetry, never as popular as the one in DC I just saw on CNN. To see a reading as well attended as Elizabeth Alexander's shows a gorgeous paradigm shift. To follow this newfound popularity, I recommend calling ( Read more... )