Jun 9, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
I read something today that really surprised me. The brilliant Kris Rusch wrote that some writers cannot write on planes. This surprised me, because I’ve never been one of those writers who just writes in a certain location or a certain environment. Sure,...
Jun 6, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
Bumblebees Are Made of Ash Martha Silano (@marthasilano in Thrush Literary Journal) The day is a dragonfly hovering in the Timothy. It could rain for months before the sun goes down. An orange buoy bobs while a sparrow sings through a wall. The world smells of cedar,...
Jun 3, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
(received this for Christmas — a couple spoilers inline here) Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 re-creates the Marvel universe as it might have been if it wasn’t born in 1950s America, but instead in Elizabethan England. I found 1602 to embody all the...
May 28, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Last spring, I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Charif Shanahan at the AWP conference, when we were both invited readers for a reading sponsored by our publishers. I’m excited that his poem Ligament appeared in The New York Times Magazine in the...
May 22, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Next Chapter Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Next Chapter Booksellers is a wonderful little bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the mid-2000s, I was in Minnesota for graduate school and I worked on the Macalester College campus as a part-time job...
May 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing
Last week, I picked up a book that’s been on my shelf for a long time. This was Different Seasons by Stephen King. This book is a collection of four novellas, and was his first publication that reached outside of the horror genre. The book includes the novellas Apt...
