Fiction by Ian Singleton
June 30th, 2011
The Lost Soul Boys in Prick of the Spindle.
I didn’t know this had already come out:
It’s in a journal from LA (Lower Alabama).
Spring 2011 Reading List
June 30th, 2011
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
“Desert Breakdown, 1968” by Tobias Wolff
“The Model” by Guy de Maupassant
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Going For a Beer” by Robert Coover
“Atria” by Ramona Ausubel
“The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill
“Noon Wine” by Katherine Anne Porter
“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter
“Old Mortality” by Katherine Anne Porter
“Snow” by Charles Baxter
“Cousins” by Charles Baxter
“The Five Forty-Eight” by John Cheever
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
“Catastrophes in the Air” by Joseph Brodsky
“Daumier” by Donald Barthelme
“For I’m the Boy” by Donald Barthelme
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter
“College Town, 1980” by Mary Gaitskill
“Folk Song” by Mary Gaitskill
Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Война и мир Льва Толстого
Котлован Андрея Платонова
«Третий сын» Андрея Платонова
Fiction by Ian Singleton
June 7th, 2011
This is a free translation I did of Aleksandr Pushkin’s story “Метель”. It’s published in a journal Midwestern Gothic.
Poetry by Ian Singleton
May 3rd, 2011
Look around Knoxville
April 25th, 2011
Here’s something the people at Fringe took from me. Thank you to them.
Winter 2011 Reading List
March 22nd, 2011
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Runaway by Alice Munro
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
“Errand” by Raymond Carver
“Compartment” by Raymond Carver
“The King of Norway” by Amos Oz
“A Tale of The Ragged Mountains” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe
Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek
Война и мир Льва Толстого
«Тамань» Михаила Лермонтова
«Предуведомление для тех, которые пожелали бы сыграть как следует ревизора» Николая Гоголя
Сергей Довлатов – Полковник говорит – люблю
March 16th, 2011
Sergei Dovlatov’s story of marriage and emigration, read by David Bezmozgis.
Tobias Wolff reading Stephanie Vaughn’s “Dog Heaven”
March 16th, 2011
A great story and introduction to a new author for me.
Book Review by Ian Singleton
March 16th, 2011
Here’s the review. I hope it fulfills Charles Baxter’s two requirements.
The Importance of Metaphors
February 25th, 2011
This is a new study showing how important the use of metaphors to describe can be in influencing one’s judgment of a situation.