Monday, April 06, 2009

There's a new story from Stephen Dixon up at Urbanite. It's called "Mr. Greene" and it appears to be many normal-people sized paragraphs instead of one Stephen Dixon sized paragraph. If I doubted I was going to read it sometime shortly after I finish this post, the opening paragraph would have put those doubts in a pipe and smoked them:

It was a beautiful day, clear and dry, the orchards soaked by the early-morning downpour and smelling of fallen fruit and fresh buds. Life fantastic, I thought, when something hard was shoved into my back and a voice said don’t turn around.


Also, looks like new book-format material is on the way:

Stephen Dixon has published twenty-seven books of fiction, fourteen novels, and thirteen collections of short stories. His next, a three-volume story collection called What Is All This?, is forthcoming from Fantagraphics Books.


Granted I still haven't read Meyer (though I will) nor have I read like 90 percent of what he's published, but, you know, still: exciting!

2 comments:

  1. Sure is, dawg. (Exciting.) Meyer sucked, but no matter.

    Did you see the Collected Stories of Lydia Davis news? Seven Hundred And Fifty Two Pages. Ohboyohboy

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  2. I remember you saying that. Which is I think why I want to read it. To see if it was bad or if it was a situational burnout thing. (I've been there.)

    I hadn't seen that news. Though I think I wasn't excited by what of hers I'd read. Maybe I'll have to look back into her.

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