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From: Cynthia Whitney Hallett, Ph.D.
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000
Subject: Minimalism and the Short Story . . .

Hi,

Thanks for the book review -- the only "correction" that I'd like to make is that the initial manuscript of this book was finished in 1996 -- accepted for publication early 1998 -- revised and sent to press in 1999 and actually published November 1999

Tumble Home was not available until well into the final process of the manuscript.

-- Cynthia Hallett

From: John Bush
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000
Subject: Our Readers Sound Off

Dear Camille Renshaw and Editors,

Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate Pif and the keen eye you and the other editors have for superb writing. I use Pif regularly in my classroom as a resource for prose and poetry models.

Again, thanks!!

From: Raelib
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000
Subject: to billy collins

i am REALLY enjoying your work in PIF and was also at the recent dodge festival where your readings were absolutely impressive and inspiring

thank you for showing me where my own writing can take me

~Rae Hoffston

Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000
Subject: Strange Attractors by Richard Weems

i enjoyed "my dinner with weems" blake has always held the better part of reality. his atoms are my atoms too.

From: Dhiraj Bhandari
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000
Subject: Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri by Arun Aguiar

I am really glad to read this interview about Jhumpa lahiri. Actually I was looking to know more about her work after reading her winner. I really love her book, its given me some passion to the world of reading.

regards,
-dhiraj

From:  JanosHalma@aol.com
Date: September 7, 2000
Subject:  Lake Shore by Billy Collins

Works well. Surprising turns. The poet takes a risk to write exactly where profs and pros say NO; then Collins turns it into a wonderful close up of nature which itself turns imaginatively into a comment on our work-all-day-for-pay self-restricted lives.

Bravo.

John Horváth, Jr.

From: Patrick Cairns
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000
Subject: Strange Attractors by Richard Weems

What a magical piece of work. I myself am trying to find a means whereby we can 'escape logic', this idea that we need to make sense and that we need to know where we are going. We need to let go of this desire to know everything and rather learn to experience the present. Because that's all that really matters.

Richard - I'd love to read anything else you've written along these lines if any such work exists.

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