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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Richard Weems
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Anything He Wants
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2006
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The Need for Character - flash fiction (Cheap Stories, #5)
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2004
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The Fine Art of Fletcherism and two more stories (Cheap Stories, #1)
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2011
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Paradigms and Curbside Boxes (Cheap Stories, #2)
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2011
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Apples and Self-Interview - two stories (Cheap Stories, #3)
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2011
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Mercy - three micro-fiction pieces (Cheap Stories, #7)
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Falling - avant-garde fiction (Cheap Stories, #4)
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Soup - three flash fiction pieces (Cheap Stories #6)
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Violence and Sitting Danny Rolling - two essays (Cheap Stories, #8)
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2011
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new story up at Aquifer
New story up at Aquifer, from The Florida Review: an afterlife of decapitated heads: The Beheaded.
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| There is the trope, especially in sci-fi it seems, of the budding writer turned success story, who spent their early days churning out tons of work, typing into the wee hours, maybe not sleeping while also carrying a full-time job, that has turned in ...more | |
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| I persisted with this one, as there were passages of writing and descriptions I enjoyed, and the premise of someone transporting a palace through the desert sounded interesting, but the comparisons on the jacket to Homer are quite thin and even a lit ...more | |
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“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
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“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”
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“This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.”
― Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems
― Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems
“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.”
― Letters on Cézanne
― Letters on Cézanne
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Dear Weems:I know this comment is not related to books or reading, but it is related to ridiculous Japanese movies, so I figured it was roughly equivalent.
I just heard of this movie, which you have probably seen-- "The Happiness of the Katakuris". It's by Takashi Miike (obviously, "Audition" and "Ichi the Killer"). The cover image I saw for it has a happy Japanese family on the center, and demented claymation figures eating people on the sides. Everytime I see something like this (e.g. "Jesus Christ Vampire Slayer", "Zombie Strippers", etc.) I feel compelled to mark the movie for potential viewing, and to tell you about it. Now I can rest easy knowing that I've mentioned all three (real) films to you. Hope you're doing well-- I haven't been in contact for a while, and this is more convenient than e-mail.
Best,
Amy
But its damn good to hear from you, Meng. All is well here, though hectic. Happiness in busyness, you could say.
Yours,
Weems