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:

 

The Lost Soul Boys

 

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.

The Snowstorm

Poetry by Ian Singleton

May 3rd, 2011

Here’s the first half of my blank verse story “The Villainy of Hamlet” about Hamlet’s sea journey, during which he arranges for the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Part I

Part II

Look around Knoxville

April 25th, 2011

Here’s something the people at Fringe took from me. Thank you to them.

Map of “Places That Verb Your World”

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

Sergei Dovlatov’s story of marriage and emigration, read by David Bezmozgis.

The link.

A great story and introduction to a new author for me.

Here’s the link.

Book Review by Ian Singleton

March 16th, 2011

Here’s the review. I hope it fulfills Charles Baxter’s two requirements.

Review of Charles Baxter’s Gryphon

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.