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I Spent Sixteen Months of My Childhood Locked in a Basement and No One will Publish My Memoir.
Yes, I forgive my mother for the trauma she put me through. That was part of the process of writing the book. Anger? Sure, I have anger, I hurt, but mostly I am upset at Harper Collins for saying they were going to publish the book and then dropping it six months later after those…
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Who We Are Here at Spat
Spat.online is a repository of writing that can’t seem to find a home elsewhere on the web. Partly because the authors are lazy, partly because the poor morals and blurry politics embodied in most of these pieces don’t make sense to the limited worldview of the wealthy, bored 20somethings who read slush piles for most…
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List of Essays
Losing the War- Lee Sandlin A Rough trade, Oktoberfest- Martin Amis DFW- most everything pre 2002 Whatever Happened to Greg LeMonde- Mike Magnuson- Bicycling Franzen- Coach, Farther Away, Caught, On Autobiographical Fiction Woven -Lidia Yucknavitch- Guernica Sliver of Sky- Barry Lopez Torch Song, – Charles Bowden Whaling Out West- Charles D’Ambrosio The Pain Tours, The…
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List of Stories
The Greatest Goddamn Thing- John McNally Do Not Go Gentle – Sherman Alexie The Pleasure of Her Company- Jane Smiley The Displaced Person- Flannery O’Connor Baader Meinhoof, Pafko at the Wall- Don Delillo Little Expressionless Animals, Good Old Neon- DFW Sleepy, Ward 6- Chekov The Swift Passage of the Animals- TC Boyle Fat, Chef’s House…