topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Deja Voodoo”: Who is Toby Heaton? This is great. This reads like “The Wire,”it reminds me of Richard Price. I love the dialogue here, the characters feel real. There’s a whole lot […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “From My Nigerian Connection”: Pauline Masurel has fun here riffing on the barrage of grammatically-challenged exhortatory missives so many of us discovered in our inboxes over the last decade, sent by enterprising […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Disconnected Pen”: This is a great subject, and a low-key but powerful demonstration of how 21st -century communication technologies are changing the way people live—and die— before any of us has had […]
Sometimes, I feel my life is quite uneventful when I hear stories like these! Imagine getting caught in a storm in Alaska while fishing! How much more thrilling can it get? Well, it does. In the PenTales pick for today (October 15) on On The Road, Sissi Babich dives into […]
At today’s PenTales pick (October 14), we watch a video from the NYC PenTales event on Travel and how sometimes going home is not the journey you’d imagine it to be. Going home is supposed to be comfortable, is it not? But Batsheva tells us how her trip home to […]
Here’s one quirky way to look at being robbed! Ben Pickard narrates cheerfully an experience we are allowed to laugh at!
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topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Timor Highway”: While this story doesn’t adhere to the theme of the contest—“Being Connected in the 21st Century”—as directly as the others, it shows that connections of love, duty and loyalty don’t […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Half a Toast”: I liked the way this story kept me guessing, even though it was short. And after reading it once, I read it again, with new appreciation for the author’s […]