Tag Archives: Steve Almond
An Act of Sustained Attention Implying Eventual Mercy
Today is theft day here at 317am, but it’ll be theft with a warm acknowledgement, so I make no apologies. When I was wrapping up my short-story class last month, Laura, who’s been a student and a friend for awhile, … Read more
Slaughterhouse-Five Revisited
My fiction book club recently read Kurt Vonnegut’s classic World War II novel Slaughterhouse-Five, a book I’d read and treasured when it appeared in 1969. I like rereading the books of my youth. You get a better, one might say triangulated sense of … Read more
Sweet Spots for Storytellers: Metaphors and Insider Expertise
Yesterday’s post probed Steve Almond’s short story “Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched” in hopes of uncovering what makes it work so well. I zeroed in on the pleasures for the reader of the competition between the passive-aggressive shrink/protagonist Dr. Oss … Read more
How To Write a Stay-Up-Late Story
The other night I picked up my copy of The Best American Short Stories, 2010, edited by Richard Russo and Heidi Pitlor, and rather idly opened it to the first story – “Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched” by Steve Almond. … Read more
TED THE CAT
Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kaze
Kaze is Washington DC area writing guru Steve Altman. The nickname is Japanese for “the wind.” Read more »
RasoirJ
Ras at Texas BBQ in DC, site of lunchtime chats with Kaze on the art and agony of writing. Ras is also known in some publishing circles as George Clack. Read more »