A while back, I wrote an essay as an attempt to speak to a relative who died before I was born.
Here it is, with thanks to the editors, in @redividermag
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redivider.emerson.edu/invocations-of…
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Andrew Cominelli
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Andrew Cominelli
@ajcomjr
Fiction writer
New Orleans, LA Katılım Mayıs 2021
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Our new spring issue is live! Full of many great pieces—learn some lessons in smoking, or maybe take a look at past and future exhibits at the mutter museum. Or, read about the house that’s taken over.
#WritingCommunity
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Andrew Cominelli retweetledi
It's a pleasure to feature this story by US author @ajcomjr in which a man at work researching the background of an old colonial home comes to confront a painful part of his past.
link: barcelonareview.com/111/e_ac.html
#TheBarcelonaReview #AndrewCominelli #AmericanShortFiction2025
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My short story “Preservation,” is in the new @BarcelonaReview. It’s about denial, two old houses, an obscure mural lost to time, & more:
barcelonareview.com/111/e_ac.html
Big thanks to eds. Jill Adams & Diggory Dunn for publishing it
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My review of the unmissable novel “American Abductions,” by Mauro Javier Cárdenas (@IneluctableQuak). Thanks to the editors @QuarterlyWest for including it🌻
quarterlywest.com/issue-113-comi…
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you gotta go see the incredible @sapphicspielbrg ‘s new film as soon as you possibly can
Jane Schoenbrun@sapphicspielbrg
I SAW THE TV GLOW is officially playing in theaters in NY and LA!!! I want to be frank with u, plz buy tickets and tell ur friends to do the same. i really want the movie to make a bunch of money bc it'll make it easier for me to convince cis ppl to keep letting me do this shit
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@RobertAllenPoet The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra
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I’m in the mood for a novella, something short. Something magical. Something full of surprises.
Any recommendations?
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@MrHWM The Lime Twig comes to mind. it’s tonally-focused to the extreme. nearly the whole plot is just… alluded to
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@MrHWM helpful language for a thing i spend lots of time thinking about. writing “events” often feels artificial: “okay, lemme inject some *drama* right… here.” i’m pondering ways to sort of embed needed “events” in the text - to weave them into a atmospheric/tonal fabric
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the failure of a lot of stories and novels that begin by moving tonally is that they fall into the trap of concluding outside of the tonal mode—plot in other words. the need to resolve the movement of the piece lends itself to having an "event." the wrong kind of clarity.
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@MrHWM & Steinbeck was contemporary to Faulkner/ Hemingway. the latter two are so present in convos, i’d say largely for being prose stylists. but Steinbeck, whom i see as more a pure storyteller, is overlooked. all 3 are great, but interesting to ponder reasons for the diff legacies
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@ajcomjr yup. ive never heard his name mentioned in any mfa or fellowship type situation. but non lit types fucking love him.
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fwiw this is part of the reason the lit world is generally condescending about steinbeck.
Morow Jävis Kærdenax@IneluctableQuak
Americans should stop teaching Catcher in the Rye & Slaughterhouse 5 in high school so when they read them as adults they can see they’re both fine novels.
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My short story "The Smoke of the Land Went Up" is in @GuernicaMag today. It's got sex, drugs, pedicabbing, a landscaping convention, and lots of dread.
Huge thanks to editors @autumn_watts, @adalva, and Ishita Marwah for getting this out into the world.
guernicamag.com/the-smoke-of-t…
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"The Smoke of the Land Went Up," by Andrew Cominelli, is dystopic, fast-paced, and sexually charged. It is the first story I've ever read about a New Orleans pedicab driver - which made sense when I found out that Andrew is a New Orleans pedicab driver! guernicamag.com/the-smoke-of-t…
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Our March issue of @GuernicaMag is here! I'm pleased to be publishing two dynamic stories. The great Itamar Vieira Junior's "Black Wing Dragging Across the Sand," in marvelous translation by Johnny Lorenz, is a dynamic, surprising Clarice Lispector homage guernicamag.com/black-wing-dra…
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@esfletcher it’s sad-dark-funny, but Frederick Exley’s “A Fan’s Notes” rules
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This is the downside of Goodreads dying! The 🇺🇸 Monolinguals are switching to Twitter 😂
“Even though poor Mauro Javier doesn’t use big words, he really thinks big feelings come from big words.” One star
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@DepartureJay recently stumbled across this gem in the "Bolaño smoking" genre. smoking begins at 3:15: youtube.com/watch?v=wQOSyU…
YouTube
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@IneluctableQuak @Dalkey_Archive @OneworldNews @willevans @DeepVellum I would love to read this and try to place a review of it somewhere!
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The time has come to firm up the galley list for
AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS
my 3rd novel
Out Feb / Mar 2024
via @Dalkey_Archive & @OneworldNews
If you would like to write about a surrealist oral history of Latin American deportees
Let me know 😊
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v excited to see my story “Go” in print, with a ton of other great work in the Fall 2022 issue of @RuminateMag
Ruminate Magazine@RuminateMag
Issue 63 is here! Our Fall 2022 issue features work by @musgraved @kfor24 @ito_sab @Kavetchnik @SaraMooreWagne1 @DanielEGalicia @littprofessor For the first time ever, you can read the issue both online and in print. 😃 More: bit.ly/3Elhe5R
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