July Bonus Issue
Next year, The Drum will be on vacation in July and August. But this year, to keep things rolling, we're bringing you a Bonus Issue this month. Check back each week for features that embrace the spirit of travel. Even if you aren't leaving home this summer, The Drum can help you pretend you are.
Issue 3. July 2010
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STORIES ON THE STREET The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Who better to read aloud Kenneth Grahame's famous passage about the delight of "messing about in boats" than the rowers and staff at Boston's Community Rowing, Inc.? The Drum stopped by the boathouse early one morning last week and found a group of willing--and even enthusiastic--participants just coming off the water. Community Rowing is one of the largest public boat clubs in the United States, introducing people of all ages and all abilities to the sport of rowing. Visit their website for more info.
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Allison Williams is based in Kalamazoo, Michigan but lives mostly on the road as a professional street performer with Aerial Angels. Nonfiction includes Travelers' Tales Prague. Plays include Drop Dead, Juliet! and her solo show, TRUE STORY (Best of the London Fringe 2006). Suggestions for a country to live and write in this December gratefully received at allison@angelsintheair.com.
TAGS: flash fiction : under five minutes :
PREMIUM JONATHAN PAPERNICK Skin for Skin
Jonathan Papernick is the author of The Ascent of Eli Israel and Who by Fire, Who by Blood. His second collection of short stories There is No Other, from which the story "Skin for Skin" appears, will be available in bookstores this fall. Author Dara Horn wrote about There is No Other, "Every single story here delivers a knock-out punch that will leave you reeling long after you've put it down -- and revising your thinking on what life and love really mean." Papernick teaches fiction writing at Emerson College and the BIMA program at Brandeis University. To learn more, please visit www.jonpapernick.com or become a fan of Jonathan Papernick on Facebook.
TAGS: short fiction : under ten minutes :
Pete Michael Smith lives and writes in the hills of western Massachusetts. He hopes to someday be able to live off of his fictions, but for now, is happy to live in them. Currently, he is at work on a collection of stories each written in a different style of painting. He blogs irregularly at honeyedmagic.com.
TAGS: short fiction : under thirty minutes :
PREMIUM ADAM STUMACHER Local Appetites
Adam Stumacher's work has appeared in Best New American Voices, TriQuarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and The Sun, and was winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary's College, and he was the the Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He lives in Boston, where he teaches creative writing at Grub Street and MIT, and he is working on a short story collection and a novel.
TAGS: short fiction : under thirty minutes :
PREMIUM VESTAL MCINTYRE Tickle or Torture
Vestal McIntyre is the author of the story collection You Are Not the One and the novel Lake Overturn, which has just been released in paperback from Harper Perennial. Lake Overturn was named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review and a Best Book of 2009 by the Washington Post, and won the Grub Street National Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Vestal lives in London.
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PREMIUM TARA MASIH A Haunt of Memory
Tara L. Masih is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a ForeWord Book of the Year) and author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories. She has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (including Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, Red River Review, Night Train, and The Caribbean Writer), and several limited edition illustrated chapbooks featuring her flash fiction have been published by The Feral Press. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations. www.taramasih.com.
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