Something always has to happen. In the story. It has to be real and convincing, like the sun rising or a gust of wind that picks up down the street and drags dead stiff leaves and animates plastic liquor store [...]
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By joshuacitrak, on July 12th, 2010 |
 I just received an invite to read at this July’s LitQuake/Instant City event, this Sunday in the Mission. I really have no other details other than when and where: Gypsy Honeymoon and Heart Wine Bar 1266 Valencia St SF CA Sunday, July 18 6-8 pm Stop by, say [...] By joshuacitrak, on May 10th, 2010 |
I’ve got a new piece I’m really proud of in the latest issue of Instant City. The issue comes out May 17th, and there’s a release party and reading happening that day. While I won’t be reading, Charles Gatewood, Amanda Davidson, Andrew Dugas, and Sherilyn Connelly [...] By joshuacitrak, on May 4th, 2010 |
a MFA-like piece of writing can contain any one of the following:
By joshuacitrak, on April 14th, 2010 |
according to PW Daily. Not sure if this is a good thing or what. While i certainly don’t side with the traditional Publisher-Author model, my reasons for it are mostly financial. The authors simply don’t get a big enough cut for their work. [...] By joshuacitrak, on April 5th, 2010 |
If you’re not an avid LH reader, then you need to question your [...] By joshuacitrak, on March 27th, 2010 |
This afternoon I snuck out of a real boring company lunch — the quality being somewhere between fast food and Chili’s — where the higher ups in the company went around to each table and butted into our conversations saying we should really go into the next room to view the “new company reel.” Fuck that. I took the elevator and went walking near the [...] By joshuacitrak, on February 26th, 2010 |
You’ve been waiting like what, two freaking years for this? Well, AITPL #13 is out [...] By joshuacitrak, on February 23rd, 2010 |
i love frequent Atlantic contributor Sandra Tsing Loh. She has the uncanny ability to nail, succinctly, the slices of the pie that make up our culture. This is from her “Classed Dismissed” [...] By joshuacitrak, on February 18th, 2010 |
We would hike up Telegraph Hill all the way to Coit Tower. We’d go past the parking lot to where you see the sweep of the Bay laid out and people clogging up the panorama posing for [...] |
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