November 28, 2014

feuilleton

Many of the things I write are short notes to anyone and everyone. It took me years to find they have their own bona fide category of writings — Feuilletons.

I share these feuilletons and other thoughts, with Malt ‘n Murder, my writing group of four.

Hey guys, I think this is what I’m doing.  I found it in the editor’s note in the American Scholar, a publication that’s full of short “look what I just wrote” pieces. 

Hey guys (again)– I noticed a review of Lydia Davis work in the summer 2014 edition of The Atlantic — she writes short pieces — mostly fiction, but sometimes “prose essays”.  I googled her and found this quote from an interview The Believer did with her:

Lydia Davis:

Robert Walser was described by one critic (rather diminishingly, I think) as a “feuilletonist.” He sometimes referred to his work simply as “short prose pieces”.

(more Lydia Davis)

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