Quick Hits for October 6, 2009
Here are the links to the Universe...
The Man Booker Prize: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall wins the prestigious prize.
City Lights and Beauty Salon: Just got his via email from the good folks over at City Lights.
The City Lights No Contest
In a recent interview with PRI's World Books, Beauty Salon author Mario
Bellatin described a writing technique called the "No Method": "For
years I tried to create for myself a method of writing that would be my
own. I called it the No Method, not because it was influenced by the
Japanese theatrical form of that name, but rather because it was about
appending a 'no' to all the elements that supposedly make up literary
texts. No adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience,
no names, and so on and so forth, until I had compiled a long list of
noes. It was in that way, restricted all the way down to the most
minimal aspects, that I began to see that, in a certain sense, things
could be named anew."
Our challenge to you: use Bellatin's No Method--no adjectives, no
dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names--to write a short
piece of fiction (under 200 words), and send your entry to
contest@citylights.com under the subject line "No Contest." The person
with the best entry will receive a free copy of Beauty Salon and a
choice of four other books from our City Lights Publishers Literature
in Translation list. Submissions are due no later than October 15,
2009.
The winner will be announced in our November newsletter.
City Lights and Beauty Salon: Just got his via email from the good folks over at City Lights.
The City Lights No Contest
In a recent interview with PRI's World Books, Beauty Salon author Mario
Bellatin described a writing technique called the "No Method": "For
years I tried to create for myself a method of writing that would be my
own. I called it the No Method, not because it was influenced by the
Japanese theatrical form of that name, but rather because it was about
appending a 'no' to all the elements that supposedly make up literary
texts. No adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience,
no names, and so on and so forth, until I had compiled a long list of
noes. It was in that way, restricted all the way down to the most
minimal aspects, that I began to see that, in a certain sense, things
could be named anew."
Our challenge to you: use Bellatin's No Method--no adjectives, no
dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names--to write a short
piece of fiction (under 200 words), and send your entry to
contest@citylights.com under the subject line "No Contest." The person
with the best entry will receive a free copy of Beauty Salon and a
choice of four other books from our City Lights Publishers Literature
in Translation list. Submissions are due no later than October 15,
2009.
The winner will be announced in our November newsletter.
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