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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
two new literary ventures
Here are two new ventures you might find interesting:
1) Author Matthew M. Quick has set up a new blog about writing and publishing. It’s an interactive experience called Questioning Q. Please visit http://questioningq.blogspot.com and feel free to ask a question.
2) http://www.bearcreekfeed.com/ is a journal for full-length stories online. The first issue features the very fine work of Kim Chinquee, Happy Birthday To Me.
Labels: Kim Chinquee, Matthew M. Quick
posted by Myfanwy Collins at 5:10 AM 0 commentsFriday, May 16, 2008
wigleaf top 50 and other news
The excellent folks at wigleaf have announced their top 50 online stories. Nice foreword and introduction from the series and selecting editors.
The Kenyon Review announced KROnline described by David Lynn as:
"a lively and innovative bridge between the world of the very best print literature and the emerging potential of the electronic universe."A new issue of Narrative Magazine is live. Go on and read it.
Last, but definitely not least, check out this Quick Fiction Interview with Kim Chinquee
Labels: Kenyon Review, Kim Chinquee, Narrative Magazine, Quick Fiction, Wigleaf
posted by Myfanwy Collins at 10:00 AM 0 commentsTuesday, April 08, 2008
My Review of Kim Chinquee's Oh Baby
My review of Kim Chinquee's Oh Baby, a collection of flash fictions and prose poems, can be read at my website. Kim previously appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly with her stories Attic (Issue Five) and Holiday Inn (Issue Nineteen, and one of my favorite of her stories).
Labels: Kim Chinquee
posted by Matt Bell at 8:28 PM 0 commentsWednesday, April 02, 2008
Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years
Snow*vigate is publishing an anthology of online writing, edited by Doug Martin and Kim Chinquee. We just learned that Jeff Landon's Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub and Chad Simpson's Miracle are among the stories to be included. Doug Martin is periodically updating the list of authors on Snow*vigate's MySpace page. As of today, the list includes:
Brian Evenson, Michael Martone, Susan Henderson, Kim Chinquee, Noah Eli Gordon, Peter Conners, Mark Yakich, Jeff Landon, Norman Lock, Robyn Art, Mark Tursi, Joanna Howard, Lily Hoang, Brian Beatty, Bruce Covey, Brian Clements, Steve Davenport, Sheila Murphy, Kevin Sampsell, H. Tavel, Claudia Smith, George Looney, Corey Zeller, Jaya Savige, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Chad Simpson, Arielle Greenberg, Matt Hart, Max Winter, Daniel Grandbois, Anthony Tognazzini, Jamey Dunham, Pamela Miller, Megan R. Anderson Ham, Jessica Dyer, Christine Boyka Kluge, Christy Effinger, Matthew Brennan, David Baratier, Derek White, Carol Novack, Peter Markus, Sara Long, Rebecca Eggleston, Robert Lopez, John Bradley, Joshua Corey, Barbara Jacksha, Nicola Mason, Alexander Long, Sandra Beasley, Richard S. King, Cooper Esteban, Christopher Barnes, Kathy Fish, Ted Pelton, Theodore Worozbyt, Darla Crist, Girija Tropp, Jennifer Chapis, Gail Siegel, Liesl Jobson, Darby Larson, Erin Pringle, Davis Schneiderman, Victor Gischler, Jessica Newman, Jon Bonomo, and several more to select.
Labels: Chad Simpson, Doug Martin, Jeff Landon, Kim Chinquee, Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, Snow*vigate
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:37 PM 0 commentsTuesday, April 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for March 2008
John Leary jumps back into the top spot again, with a challenge from an old powerhouse. And a bunch of stories from the latest issue start getting much-deserved attention.1. (3) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
2. (8) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
3. (NR) The Cockroach by David Barringer (3/15/08)
4. (2) The Off-Season by Jami Attenberg (12/15/07)
5. (NR) Trestle by Matt Briggs (3/15/08)
6. (NR) Worried & Wondering by Aaron Burch (3/15/08)
7. (6) Holiday Inn by Kim Chinquee (12/15/07)
8. (NR) Dead Dog Rising by Kate Hill Cantrill (3/15/08)
9. (1) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
10. (NR) The Last Stop by Jenny Halper (3/15/08)
Labels: Aaron Burch, David Barringer, Elizabeth Ellen, Jami Attenberg, Jenny Halper, John Leary, Kate Hill Cantrill, Kim Chinquee, Matt Briggs, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 12:28 PM 0 commentsSaturday, March 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for February 2008
Not a lot of change this month. In fact, I had to check after writing up the first three to make sure I'd changed my stats view, since there's no change in the top three at all. Also, it's really cool to see Heidi Durrow's piece making an appearance here again.1. (1) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
2. (2) The Off-Season by Jami Attenberg (12/15/07)
3. (3) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
4. (8) A Company Function by Grant Bailie (12/15/07)
5. (NR) Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears by Heidi W. Durrow (9/15/07)
6. (7) Holiday Inn by Kim Chinquee (12/15/07)
7. (10) What Happened to My Purple Flip-Flops by Arwen Dewey (12/15/07)
8. (NR) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
9. (9) Killer Pair by Trinie Dalton (12/15/07)
10. (NR) Food Spectrum of the Rainbow Family by Melissa Bell (12/15/07)
Labels: Arwen Dewey, Elizabeth Ellen, Grant Bailie, Heidi W. Durrow, Jami Attenberg, John Leary, Kim Chinquee, Melissa Bell, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten, Trinie Dalton
posted by Dave Clapper at 12:21 PM 0 commentsThursday, February 28, 2008
Oh Baby, by Kim Chinquee
Be prepared: Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee's debut collection, will knock you on your ass.
It's a book about love: mother for child; child for mother, for father; man for woman; woman for man and man and man. Love for running. Love for vodka.
It's a book about women: a runner, an artist, a nurse, a mother, a girlfriend, a wife, a daughter, a friend. A drawer of blood.
A woman who lives in England, in the midwest, in some nameless place.
A woman.
But mostly, it's a book about identity in which the author constantly scrutinizes these women to find out which one is the one. In "Purple" she asks: "Me, who was I?" and then never answers the question. And then in "Wig" she talks of buying a wig and says: "When I got back to the hotel, I put it on and thought I looked like Kim Chinquee."
And this is what we're all looking for: that time and place where we most feel like ourselves. When we are no longer pretending and donning our wigs. Do we ever find it?
Taken seperately, these stories will hurt you; taken together as one in this collection, they will clobber you and rob you of your breath.
Read it.
Labels: Kim Chinquee
posted by Myfanwy Collins at 6:14 AM 0 commentsFriday, February 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for January 2008
And Elizabeth Ellen takes the top spot back from John Leary, in what otherwise is a list dominated by recent stories.1. (2) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
2. (4) The Off-Season by Jami Attenberg (12/15/07)
3. (1) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
4. (7) How 9) Strange by Laird Hunt (12/15/07)
5. (9) Taco Foot by Jack Pendarvis (12/15/07)
6. (NR) Truth (ii) by Ben Ehrenreich (12/15/07)
7. (6) Holiday Inn by Kim Chinquee (12/15/07)
8. (10) A Company Function by Grant Bailie (12/15/07)
9. (NR) Killer Pair by Trinie Dalton (12/15/07)
10. (NR) What Happened to My Purple Flip-Flops by Arwen Dewey (12/15/07)
Labels: Arwen Dewey, Ben Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Ellen, Grant Bailie, Jack Pendarvis, Jami Attenberg, John Leary, Kim Chinquee, Laird Hunt, SmokeLong Quarterly, Top Ten, Trinie Dalton
posted by Dave Clapper at 12:14 PM 0 commentsWednesday, January 30, 2008
Books! Books! Books!
There are some exciting books coming out soon and I'm sure you'll want a copy of each:
I'm beyond delighted that I will soon have in my possession a copy of A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness! This collection of four chapbooks ( Laughter, Applause, Laughter, Music, Applause by Kathy Fish, Wanting by Amy L. Clark, Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix by Elizabeth Ellen, and The Sky Is a Well by Claudia Smith) is sure to please. Here's what the brilliant Pia Z. Ehrhardt has to say about it:
The four brilliant chapbooks that make up A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness are disarmingly, unabashedly intimate collections by women who know how to tell a story and aren’t afraid to drag the unspoken out into the light of day.
Kim Chinquee is not only a wonderful, supportive person, she's also a talented writer and I'm excited that I will soon own a copy of her forthcoming collection: Oh Baby. To tantalize you further, here's the blurb:
A wonderful debut collection of prose poems and flash fictions, short short stories of beautiful precisions and understated passions. While the bricks with which Chinquee constructs her fictions—failed or failing relationships, childhood friendships, the intricacies of family life—are not uncommon, the architecture she creates with them is rare indeed: stories now full of light, now somber, now opening the reader’s eyes to an utterly new space.
I'm a huge fan of Xujun Eberlin--not just of her writing, but of her person. She is an incredible human being who writes more beautifully and clearly in English than many native speakers. That being said, you will want a copy of her soon-to-be-released book APOLOGIES FORTHCOMING
Here is a blurb from Livingston Press: A totally illuminating collection of stories centered around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, which, as we learn, continues even today-with both sides still holding out, with "apologies forthcoming." Xujun Eberlein lived in China during that tumultuous period and now makes her home in America. This, her first story collection, is both disturbing and enthralling.
These books not only represent the fine work of some talented women writers, but also they exhibit the quality work put out by small presses. Go on and support 'em, why don't you?
Labels: Claudia Smith, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, Kim Chinquee, Xujun Eberlin
posted by Myfanwy Collins at 6:15 AM 2 commentsTuesday, January 01, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for December 2007
Another new number one in December! John Leary and Elizabeth Ellen trade places at 1 and 2. Lots of stuff from the latest issue here, too.1. (2) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
2. (1) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
3. (7) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
4. (NR) The Off-Season by Jami Attenberg (12/15/07)
5. (3) When the Toasts Stopped Being Funny by Steve Almond (9/15/07)
6. (NR) Holiday Inn by Kim Chinquee (12/15/07)
7. (NR) How 9) Strange by Laird Hunt (12/15/07)
8. (4) Raymond Carver by Dan Chaon (9/15/07)
9. (NR) Taco Foot by Jack Pendarvis (12/15/07)
10. (NR) A Company Function by Grant Bailie (12/15/07)
Labels: Dan Chaon, Elizabeth Ellen, Grant Bailie, Jack Pendarvis, Jami Attenberg, John Leary, Kim Chinquee, Laird Hunt, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 12:03 PM 0 commentsSunday, December 09, 2007
Kim Chinquee and Rusty Barnes
discuss flash fiction with Xujun Eberlein.
Labels: flash fiction, Kim Chinquee, Rusty Barnes, Xujun Eberlein
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