BTW, here is the first page of Jacob Appel's award-winning fiction for your consideration. What do you think? Is it better than your losing, rejected story? I think it's better than mine, if you like truck-driver fiction. Then again, who am I to judge? What do you guys think?
Friday, November 16, 2007
Winning Face--Not Yours II
BTW, here is the first page of Jacob Appel's award-winning fiction for your consideration. What do you think? Is it better than your losing, rejected story? I think it's better than mine, if you like truck-driver fiction. Then again, who am I to judge? What do you guys think?
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Seems he's got a good, Lish-like opening. Three sentences worth.
Then...cleverness. Rare bird taxonomy to dazzle the eye. I would read the rest of this story if available on line but, I wouldn't seek it out beyond that.
But the oiseaux are a nice hook.
Good Lord, his academic credentials are just as impressive as his writing awards. Dude is a PhD and a JD and a and a and a...
Brown did not do that much for my own "career."
More power to him.
He also won MO Review's 2007 short story contest with a very cute story.
I don't like it. It's got that fakey, I'm-a-just-a-working-class-fella kind of swagger.
This is fiction cut from a certain cloth, to mix my metaphors a bit. The MFA cloth, to be precise. And "icy as the day is hot"? That's just bad, right? Right?
Haven't we had enough of this kind of writing already? Haven't we? Who even reads this stuff?
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