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Kathy Fish
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Summer Retreats: Andalusia, Spain & Grand Lake, Colorado!
Nancy Stohlman is running two amazing flash fiction retreats this summer, both in gorgeous, inspiring venues, and she has asked me back to teach! Consider joining us. These spots are selling out quickly! Go HERE for more information! We’d love for you to join us.
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“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that is IT. And then you turn around and read Sterne, and you say, Man, that is IT. And then you wander across a century or so, and you run into Kafka, or Calvino, or Cortazar, and you say, well that is IT. And then you stroll through what Updike called the grottos of Ulysses, and after that you consort with Baldwin or Welty or Spencer, or Morrison, or Bellow or Fitzgerald and then back to W. Shakespeare, Esq; the champ, and all the time you feel the excitement of being in the presence of IT. And when you yourself spend the good time writing, you are not different in kind than any of these people, you are part of that miracle of human invention. So get to work. Get on with IT, no matter how difficult IT is. Every single gesture, every single stumble, every single uninspired-feeling hour, is worth IT." Richard Bausch”
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“A group of grandmothers is a tapestry. A group of toddlers, a jubilance (see also: a bewailing). A group of librarians is an enlightenment. A group of visual artists is a bioluminescence. A group of short story writers is a Flannery. A group of musicians is--a band.
A resplendence of poets.
A beacon of scientists.
A raft of social workers.
A group of first responders is a valiance. A group of peaceful protestors is a dream. A group of special education teachers is a transcendence. A group of neonatal ICU nurses is a divinity. A group of hospice workers, a grace.
Humans in the wild, gathered and feeling good, previously an exhilaration, now: a target.
A target of concert-goers.
A target of movie-goers.
A target of dancers.
A group of schoolchildren is a target.”
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A resplendence of poets.
A beacon of scientists.
A raft of social workers.
A group of first responders is a valiance. A group of peaceful protestors is a dream. A group of special education teachers is a transcendence. A group of neonatal ICU nurses is a divinity. A group of hospice workers, a grace.
Humans in the wild, gathered and feeling good, previously an exhilaration, now: a target.
A target of concert-goers.
A target of movie-goers.
A target of dancers.
A group of schoolchildren is a target.”
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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits.
(from the review of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners in The Guardian)”
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“We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.”
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It's great to have you as a friend KATHY.My memoir - TO LIVE OR MAYBE NOTis at Barnes and Noble
It includes details of my birth in Folrala, Alabama, youth in Niceville, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Bartow and Bonifay, Florida, high school-Holmes County High School, US Navy Service in San Diego, California, music business in Hollywood, Memphis, Nashville, my investigation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination, recording and releasing the single record of the song about the MLK assassination, THEY SLEW THE DREAMER and more.
Paperback and Nook Book
Links to more Jongleur books and book sellers.
hello kathy,Thanks for the add. I look forward to reading more of your reviews and checking you out as an author!
Best wishes
Ardeshir Moradi
Hi.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?PLZ Answer The Question In My Profile.
Hello Kathy,nice to meet you in Good reads..
o ya this month we have big festival for writers.. Ubud writers Festifal in Bali..do you know that?
please see in www.ubudwritersfestifal.com and please see in www.aumkar.org. thanks...
Hi, Kathy,Finally finished your book. Sorry, got sideswiped. Thoroughly enjoyed them. And prominently posted a review.
Best wishes, and here's to life! Yes?
Mary Louise Penaz
Thanks for the add. I look forward to reading more of your reviews and checking you out as an author!
Hello Kathy,Thank you very much for adding me (accepting my invitation).
Best wishes
Rowena Cherry
Thanks for adding my book to your list. I really appreciate it.
I'm glad you liked the quote, John. And what you say makes a lot of sense. I enjoy reading authors who challenge me, but I'm with you on Ulysses, ha.
Hi Kathy,I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed your quote from Flannery O'Conner. I've never come across it before. But it rings very true with me.
I have found that when I've put forth the effort to understand a work of art, it has really paid off. I haven't quite cracked Joyce's Ulysses...but in putting forth the effort to study and analzye, I have gained a real appreciation for Faulkner, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, O'Conner herself, and others.
--John
Kathy, I've added your book A Peculiar Feeling of Restlesstness: Four Chapbooks of Short, Short Fiction by Four Women to my to-read list.
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
Kathy, I also gave 5 stars to One flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.
Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats. -Jeremy :)
P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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Hi Kathy!Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.
-Jeremy :)
Nice to Know you, have a nice day.
Hmmm, I will have to think about that. What is your favorite book of all time? Happy weekend to you, too!
Hi Kathy!If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite book of all time?
Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.
-Jeremy :)
PS--I'm happy to see that you gave The God of Small Things five stars. That's one of my favorite novels of all time.
Thanks so much, Jesse! I appreciate it...
Kathy - I loved your flash at Smokelong! Just thought I'd drop you a line to let you know. Every time I read it, I love it more.
