Self-Interview at The Nervous Breakdown
One day, I told myself. One day I’d get to do one of these bad boys. The TNB self-interview. Here it is. And an excerpt, too. After another blackout she came to with blood under her nails that she could…
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Dreadful Daughters, Nervous Breakdowns and storySouth Million Writers nom for ‘The Box.’
J.W. Wang, Zack Wentz, Cameron Pierce, John Joseph Adams, Seb Doubinsky, Deb Hoag... the list goes on and most of these people are award winning writers, poets, anthologists themselves, but they do that extra thing, they read. They lead by example. Without which this revolution, this whole movement, would not be happening.
My 20th Nervous Breakdown
Here is a new piece I wrote on my experiences at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. “The place was crawling with babeness. I mean aside from the instructors—I’m talking Aimee Bender here, people. Antonya Nelson. But the delegates glowed…
Art Edwards at The Nervous Breakdown
Interesting stuff from Art Edwards at The Nervous Breakdown “I’ve employed the path of self-publication twice over the past decade. I’ve made sales, read to captive audiences, received fan mail. My first novel was nominated for an award. My second…
Richard Blackie lives on The Nervous Breakdown.
…sometimes life falls at your feet so pre-stretched and warped that you don’t need to touch it. So broken and fragile that you fear too much handling will tear it apart. If you have the presence-of-mind to cup it in…
A new post up on The Nervous Breakdown…
One of my favorite rejections to date came from an editor who knocked back my submission but told me by way of consolation that one of my colleagues—an enviable Irish wunderkind—got in instead, and how proud I must be. The editor went on to say that my story (which has since been published elsewhere) was ‘a little too dry, a little airless.’
‘She talking about your story,’ said a supportive friend, ‘or her vag?’