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Apr.20.2012
I’m damn tickled there was no Pulitzer awarded for fiction this year. Most of the time I find the winner to be unworthy anyway, so the fact the Pulitzer board couldn’t pick a winner from the three finalists let’s me, for once, imagine the Prize might actually mean something. It lets me tell myself...
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Jul.01.2011
Hello, my name’s Jason. Will you be my agent?
I have a BA in Creative Writing from Kansas State University, and an MFA from Naropa University, and I have one published novel. The Evolution of Shadows, was released in 2009 by Unbridled Books. My book received a nice review from Publishers Weekly,...
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Jun.02.2011
“The demands of the publishing business are a fetish that must not be allowed to keep us from trying out new forms.”
- Italo Calvino "Six Memos for The Next Millennium"
Every time I write a post like Gestures at Something I get a comment from an old friend and self-avowed “cham-...
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May.30.2011
When I first arrived at Naropa University, I felt deeply out -of-place. One of the first lectures I attended during the Summer Writing Program was one by Thalia Field (I’d give you a link, but for all her avant-garde-ness she doesn’t seem to have her own web presence outside interviews on other...
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May.21.2011
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple aren’t the only game in town when it comes to getting your eBooks. If you’re local, independent bookstore is a member of the American Booksellers Association (search for your nearest indy bookstore here), chances are they’re selling Google eBooks, which can be...
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Mar.08.2011
I am in the middle of reading All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly. Normally, to say that the reading is going slowly would be a bad thing, but in this case it should be taken as a deep positive. It is one of...
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Mar.08.2011
I am in the middle of reading All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly. Normally, to say that the reading is going slowly would be a bad thing, but in this case it should be taken as a deep positive. It is one of...
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Jan.07.2011
Honestly, I don’t know where to start on this one.
Everyone, I’m sure, has heard about Alan Gribben at Auburn editing a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and removing every single instance of the word “nigger” (and the word “injun”) (If not, here) because use of the words, even within the limited...
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Dec.07.2010
I’ve been wrestling with the ending of my new story for perhaps the last four or five weeks.
Part of the problem, I think, is that I have in my head this image I want to get to. The image has been hanging around out there since I started the story, even as the intent of the story has...
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Nov.16.2010
I recommend "Good As Earthworms" by Stephen McClurg in Volume 4: Remix of The Project for A New Mythology. A very strange story on its own, but it's missing something. It's missing your remix.
The new issue of PFANM has been released online with all the stories carrying a...
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Nov.08.2010
Monday at work I was listening to the “Reality” episode of To The Best of Our Knowledge and heard an exchange between Jonathan Lethem and Jim Fleming that reminded me why, despite being published, I live in defiance of the observation that Brain Evenson once made during my first Summer Writing...
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Nov.08.2010
Monday at work I was listening to the “Reality” episode of To The Best of Our Knowledge and heard an exchange between Jonathan Lethem and Jim Fleming that reminded me why, despite being published, I live in defiance of the observation that Brain Evenson once made during my first Summer Writing...
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Oct.14.2010
Got the first remix of a story posted at the magazine. Check it out here.
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Oct.12.2010
So, lately I’ve been wanting to start up a workshop group of some sort. I am desperate to get some feedback on my new project, and equally desperate to exercise my own critical muscles. Of course the other thing I’d like to do is be able to sit down and talk with other serious prose writers on...
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Oct.07.2010
The new issue of The Project for A New Mythology is up.
Volume 4: Remix is waiting for your participation.
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About Jason
Jason Quinn Malott has a BA in Creative Writing from Kansas State University, and an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University (The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics). He has worked as a dishwasher, a short order cook, a barista, a newspaper...
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