#mike meginnis

[fictionz]

I need a movie adaptation of Mike Meginnis's "Navigators" in the style of I Saw The TV Glow.

[bormgans]

DROWNING PRACTICE - Mike Meginnis (2022)

An important part of reading is reading about reading, and so I bought this book because of a glowing review on Speculiction. Drowning Practice is part slipstream, part near-future doom, part satire & part psychological study. The novel’s premise would be ideal for a movie or tv-series. Everybody on the planet dreams the same thing in the same night: in a few months there will be a flood and…

[areax]

tagged by @voynichs to post my top 9 reads of 2023!

the top three are my favorites if i had to choose three but the rest are in no particular order

too like the lightning by ada palmer

veniss underground by jeff vandermeer

she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

the water dancer by ta-nehisi coates

the crane husband by kelly barnhill

the membranes by chi ta-wei

one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcía márquez

the only good indians by stephen graham jones

drowning practice by mike meginnis

i tag... THEE

[talonpaw]

finished drowning practice by mike meginnis

…wow. this book is hard to recommend because of how dark it is, but i’m glad i decided to finish it. the pre-apocalypse is standard fare, but the true horror lies in the novel’s depiction of an abusive relationship. i skimmed others’ reviews of the book out of curiosity, and i can totally understand why they were turned off, especially by the characters. personally, i saw the complex and messy characters as one of the more compelling parts of the novel instead of a flaw. i was a bit skeptical about the final plot twist at first, but i think it came together nicely.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

FYI, the book being reviewed is Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis

i have not stopped thinking about this goodreads review for a MOMENT since i read it. it pingpongs in my head at all times. yesterday i walked into the kitchen and i realized i hadn't washed the pot from the night before, and said coldly, "the work of a sad little man who needs to see the ocean." unreal. i know i am changed.

[egipci]

how many youtube videos about mechanics would a person have to watch, give or take, before writing the j/d version of mike meginnis's "navigators"?

[jaxntp-poetry]

May 2019: Hobart Literary Magazine publishes 1 poem by Jax NTP

"my anxiety has a baby rattlesnake in it"

https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/my-anxiety-has-a-baby-rattlesnake-in-it

https://twitter.com/hobartpulp/status/1125448063080857606?s=20

ABOUT

Hobart was founded in 2001 by Aaron Burch. Initially, Hobart was a web journal, coedited by Mike McGowan. In 2002, Aaron expanded Hobart to include an annual print issue in addition to the website. In 2005, Elizabeth Ellen came on as a coeditor of the print journal. Web editors over the years have included Matt Bell, Jensen Beach, Elle Nash, Jac Jemc, Caleb Curtiss, Andrea Kneeland, Ben Gross, Brandi Wells, Matthew Simmons, and Elizabeth Ellen, among others.

Stories and essays from the website and print journal have frequently appeared in such compilations as O’Henry, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories, with Roxane Gay’s story “North Country” and Mike Meginnis’s story “Navigators” both from Hobart 12 featured in BASS in 2012.

Over the last fifteen years, Hobart has been a home for up and coming writers (and for some a first publication!) such as Stephany Aulenback, Lauren Groff, Blake Butler, Stephen Elliott, Mary Miller, Claire Vaye Watkins, Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter, Tao Lin, Maile Chapman, Matt Bell, Jac Jemc, Jeff Parker, Brian Allen Carr, Tod Goldberg, Paul Crenshaw, Melinda Moutzakis, and Lydia Conklin.

In 2006, Elizabeth Ellen founded the book division, Short Flight / Long Drive Books, which has published books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by Michelle Orange, Mary Miller, Adam Novy, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Jess Stoner, Chelsea Martin, Mira Gonzalez, Tao Lin, Uzodinma Okehi, Elizabeth Ellen and Chloe Caldwell. In 2018, SF/LD will publish a poetry collection by Jason Phoebe Rusch.

[otherpplnation]

764. Mike Meginnis

Mike Meginnis is the author of the novel Drowning Practice (Ecco Books). It is the official March pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.

Meginnis is also the author of the novel Fat Man and Little Boy. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2012, Unstuck, The Collagist, PANK, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many other outlets. He lives and works in Iowa City.

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[revolution-john]

"His heart was like a dying dog curled up inside his chest." from "Fat Man and Little Boy" by Mike Meginnis

[mttbll]

I think that part of being a writer is just accepting the risk that you aren't any good and you can't see it. Because that's true of most writers. If you know a lot of writers, you mostly know people that you would, in your least generous moments, describe exactly that way. So I asked myself a long time ago if I still wanted to write books, even if it was possible—maybe likely—that I was that person. If I couldn't handle that risk, I had to stop. And apparently I can. Because I haven't stopped.

Mike Meginnis

[talonpaw]

the current reading list (a.k.a. the handful of books that i happen to have on hand currently):

gideon the ninth + Hattie the ninth - tamsyn muir

drowning practice - mike meginnis

circe - madeline miler

stardust - neil gaiman

gleanings - neal shusterman (short story compilation based on the 'arc of a scythe' series)

thoughts/feelings/strong opinions?

[waytobeafuckhead]

An empty thing can be so ominous.

Fat Man and Little Boy - Mike Meginnis

[fritfilter]

I think that writing fiction is often just an advanced form of worrying. You worry about a person or a number of people in an imaginary situation. You worry about what would happen to them if they were real, if their situation were real. You worry about how sad they would be, how much they would worry. You worry about dying. You worry them until they die.

I will miss you. | HTMLGIANT

[millionsmillions]

"Fat Man and Little Boy is what it would sound like if Dylan Thomas wrote about the atomic bomb." Our own Nick Ripatrazone reviews Mike Meginnis's debut novel.

[electricliterature]

"The Ten-Century Man" by Mike Meginnis

Recommended by Lazy Fascist Review

Issue No. 104

My brother used his knife to make a cross in the dirt beneath the weeping willow tree to mark the spot where we would dig the hole to hide our father’s body. He asked me, “Do you remember this willow?”

I said I surely did.

Read the full story here!

About the Author

Mike Meginnis is the author of Fat Man and Little Boy (Black Balloon Publishing, 2014). His writing is published or forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Unstuck, Hobart, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Collagist, The Lifted Brow, and many others. He operates Uncanny Valley Press with his wife, Tracy Rae Bowling.

About the Guest Editor

Some people say we’re living in a golden age of independent literature, and what with Two Dollar Radio, Dzanc, Short Flight/Long Drive, Future Tense, Black Balloon, Civil Coping Mechanisms, Broken River Books, and countless other presses regularly releasing excellent books, it’s hard to argue the point. Despite the increased popularity and marketplace visibility of indie books, literary journals have not fared as well. A few are thriving, but many are closing or migrating to digital-only formats. Even fewer pay for fiction and poetry. The aim of Lazy Fascist Review is to prove that literary journals can still be successful and sustainable, while paying for short fiction and reaching readers. We model ourselves after the great craft breweries—if you ask for our influences, we’ll name Gigantic and Stone in the same breath as Grove Press—for their dedication to creating an excellent product, their willingness to experiment, their unique voices and visual aesthetics, and their commitment to bringing people together. In every issue of Lazy Fascist Review, you’ll find recommended beer pairings for each short story and poem, along with beer reviews, book reviews, interviews, and more.

About Electric Literature

Electric Literature is an independent publisher working to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction, accompanied by a Single Sentence Animation. Single Sentence Animations are creative collaborations: the author chooses a favorite sentence and we commission an artist to interpret it. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter (where you can win weekly prizes), Facebook, and Twitter, and find previous Electric Literature picks in the Recommended Reading archives.

“The Ten-Century Man” © Copyright Mike Meginnis 2014. All rights reserved by the author.

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[mttbll]

Choose several literary rivals. These should be people you know. They should be people you like, respect, and admire. They should be people who write at least a little bit like you do. They should be more talented and successful than you are. You probably already have some candidates in mind. You need to read each thing they publish, find their weaknesses, and make a plan to succeed where they fail. Find out what you can do that they can't; build on that. Support them, be their best readers, promote their work at every opportunity. Write them fan mail. Start friendly arguments. Most important, never tell them that you are their competitor. (If it’s working, they'll know what you're doing. They'll start doing it, too.) Work as hard as you can to supersede them, to write something so beautiful that they become unnecessary. Who are my rivals? They are my friends. They are the kindest people I know. Someday, I hope to destroy them. Or failing that, to write a book that makes them weep.

Mike Meginnis