I have a story in here. You can pick it up from the Brink store or at your local Barnes & Noble. It’s a fairy tale retelling with some creative license taken :).
Very cool to have a story, Princes and Paupers, in the new edition of @f(r)iction. www.brinkstore.org/products/fri...
Last four reads A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr @nyrbclassics A Silent Language by Jon Fosse tr Searls @FitzcarraldoEds Norwood by Charles Portis A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai Tr Mulzet
I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.
Last four reads The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Tr Wilkins and Pike Leave by @shaynester Motherhood: A Ghost Story by Anna Brook @brokensleep The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel
Book mail A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East László Krasznahorkai Tr Mulzet
“Almost all we have nowadays is writers, and hardly anyone reads books anymore…Do you realize, General, how many books are printed annually? I think it’s over a hundred books a day published in Germany alone.” Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities Tr Wilkins and Pike
“Hardly anyone reads anymore today; everyone just uses the writer to work off his own excess on him, in some perverse fashion, whether by agreeing or disagreeing.” Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities Tr Wilkins
Last four reads The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Tr Teal Burn by Stephanie Austin Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Tr Ash A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Excited to have a piece in this @WWPHPress anthology, Capital Love.
Morning read The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Tr Thomas Teal
Such a beautiful story. I read it slowly to savour every word. ❤️ A well deserved place on the @wigleaf.bsky.social list. 👏👏👏
Andrew Bertaina@andrewbertaina.bsky.social · last mo.Awesome to see my story, The Shape of Things, in the @Wigleaf top 50! The story originally appeared in the Heavy Feather Review. And so great to see so many other writer friends on this list :)
Afternoon read Bonjour Tristesse By Francois Sagan Tr Irene Ash
Morning read The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Tr Sophie Wilkins
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Tr Sophie Wilkins “Even coldly calculating people do not succeed half so well in life as those properly blended temperaments who are capable of deep feeling for those persons and conditions that happen to serve their own interests.”
I have new fiction up @leonliterary today. It’s about not writing a novel. leonliteraryreview.com/issue-36-and...
Issue 36 | Andrew Bertaina – LEON Literary Review
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Awesome to see my story, The Shape of Things, in the @Wigleaf top 50! The story originally appeared in the Heavy Feather Review. And so great to see so many other writer friends on this list :)