topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Pho Therapy”: Anna Huddleston’s simple, funny, big-hearted story portrays two friends (former college roommates) who are divided by geography (one is in Russia, the other in Belgium) but united by Skype, man […]
Winner of the PenTales Revolt Contest (Get to know Andrés better by going Behind the Story) “I’m taking some apples and a melon.” “That’s a lot, Madame police!” She took two plastic bags, filled them with some apples and pulled a melon. “Keep moving! Do you want another fine?” Bazizi spoke […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “TO CONNECT”: KL Frank imagines the gray inner life of an office drone who tunes out of the humans around him by day, and tunes into the avatars of Second Life at […]
topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, said of “brb g2g do stufs irl”: Quick peek into the mind of a rebellious 22-year old cyborg-cybergirl—that is, a woman who can’t stand being offline. When Anne’s mom sends her out on a date, Anne “missed […]
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 […]
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 […]
