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>11 with Roddy Doyle:

Renowned author Roddy Doyle has graciously agreed to judge this year’s Willesden Herald New Short Stories Competition (sponsored by Willesden Herald and Pretend Genius—fresh, sleek, healthy, bold, and good-looking-making).  Pretend Genius chatted with Roddy for its brand new interview series called “>11”—interviews that look trickily as if they are comprised of only 11 questions but are, in fact, infinite.

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volume 6, issue i, 1.14.2012:

Aamir Aziz         

Jackie Kabir

John Himmelheber

Chelsea Cargill

Larry Smith

Leo Madrid

Matt Cowper

Joey Zimmerman

Hannah Goldbaum

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mode: Slam Fiction!

Slam Fiction accepts prose-like work that consists of anywhere from 113 - 355 words.  you may send in work of less than 113 words if it is accompanied by a picture that you have taken and/or drawn.  the picture is worth the additional number of words needed for submission. 

if you have longer work you may submit it to big sister/brother over at writethis.com.  s/he also accepts shorter work but Slam Fiction accepts it better.  Slam Fiction is a "pretend genius broadsuction".

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At Cafe Hopeless

"never just one question.  sometimes a little less than a medium number of questions.  but we get the real story or a story representative of the real story.  cafe' hopeless is a pretend genius production.

a new formulative non-descriptive

• > 11 interview with author Roddy Doyle
  

• a review of "Nazi Literature in The Americas"
  

• writing to get published:  8 things
  

• does the internet make us gooder (better) writers?
  

• how it splinters us for the better (gooder)
  

• words that shall be banned from poetry (new! 108-112)
  

accepting reviews of books you have not read, movies you have not seen, places you have not been, music you have not listened to, etc...

it has been correctly stated by the most brilliant authors that these types of reviews are the most difficult to write.  they must be intelligent without becoming--what's the word?-- stupid.  we are now accepting such reviews.  it is dangerous territory and we encourage you to be more dangerous (than the territory).  dangerous territory

analysis:

fanfare:

hooplah:

conspiracy:

"I sensed that she felt in me a brief awakening to the image framed by the window.  She pulled the blinds further apart.  I thought what if we were out there together and someone not so unlike me watched from here.  This watcher would be evil and succumb to one of the many evils known to man.  Perhaps the evil of knifing and the slitting that is an integral part of it."

Irisa Jebbans