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Pif Magazine
Pif Magazine |
<- CRAFT -> "If writing of merit involves both our emotions and our intellect, we can combine the first three items on the list — doesn't soothe or comfort, prescribe, or divert — to make the point that sentimentality is by its nature simplistic…" - - - - - - - - <- MEMOIR -> Anarchy in Small-Town Washington "Life in Seattle after the grunge rush is an interesting affair … the rise of rap-rock and the resurgence of the boy and girl bands’ bubblegum sound has rendered all that long hair, stubble, distortion pedals, and mumbled lyrics rather quaint. Even the thrift stores have stopped selling flannel…" - - - - - - - - <- ZINE-O-RAMA -> Do you demand the most from your literary zines? So do we - which is why this month we're telling you what we think of Dinomentia, Eye Dialect, and Poetry Daily. - - - - - - - - <- MUSIC & SONGWRITING ->
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<- POETRY -> "All This" - - - - - - - - <- MACRO-FICTION ->
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the Short Story - Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison "[Hallett] somehow fails to capture the delicate entanglements of humor, disappointment, and tenderness in both Hempel’s and Robison’s stories ... forgetting, despite her well-thought-out arguments, that the short story writer’s 'conscious codes of omission' were designed to make an audience feel more than they understood…" Past Forgetting:
My Memory Lost and Found "What gives these pages their extraordinary power is that, of course, the book is not a novel but a memoir. Past Forgetting tells the story of the author's slow recovery from amnesia and her struggles to come back into her own life with almost no memory of the preceding few decades…" Tapping the Source 
"With equal parts Endless Summer and Raymond Chandler, Tapping the Source is perhaps the ultimate beach read…" What To Read Two great sections — Web-based texts that deserve your attention and upcoming e-books, hypertexts, and print books. Discover the latest works from your favorite authors. - - - - - - - - <- TALKBACK -> Our readers spout off. Now's your chance to find out what some people really think of us.
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This month Curt takes a look at "song parts", those
magical 15 or so seconds of a song that can be listened to over, and over,
and over…
