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Only What Is: fiction and other writings from a blog |
Author: Richard Lawrence Cohen
Published: 2006-02-20 |
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 MUST READ
Richard Cohen's novels are completely lovely. His book of short stories, Pronoun Music, is terrific. In this collection of essays he originally wrote for his blog, he shows us just how smart he is: very. Every writer or aspiring writer, in particular, will learn from his essays about writing. Every reader, in general, will find here a sharp eye and discerning intelligence.--Kelly Cherry
Connections
Quite a long while ago, I happened upon Rich Cohen's blog. It was an accident, although as time has gone on there seem to be a hundred connections in things we've seen, other blogs we read. But this very first day, I read some post --- not even sure which one --- and thought "Wow, this guy can write." I sent it on to Roger Simon --- who agreed and linked Richard's post.
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br /Rich has made a book of some of the best posts from his blog, mostly small fictions, little scenes that seem to go nowhere until you take a second look. Like this:
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br /"He hocked his guitar for gasoline a hundred miles ago. Far from the first time he'd had to do that. It used to bother him a lot--he's loved every guitar he's ever held--but now he thinks of it as like sending his kids off to college. Some local boy will pick up a Guild twelve-string he couldn't otherwise afford and play it for pretty girls on the lawn of a dorm building."
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br /That's picked randomly, on a bet with myself that anywhere I opened the book I'd see a paragraph that I wanted to bring out and highlight. I won the bet.
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br /This guy can write.
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