September 2015 – Page 2 – Michigan Quarterly Review

September 2015

Unsolved Histories: A Giant Turtle, A Stubborn Man, and Dredging Up a Myth

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In March of 1949 the town of Churubusco, Indiana (population 1,200) made national headlines as a result of a turtle sighting in the murky waters surrounding Fulk Lake. This wasn’t just any turtle, but a turtle of monstrous proportions—400 or so pounds of skin and shell, as big as a car, or close.

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In March of 1949 the town of Churubusco, Indiana (population 1,200) made national headlines as a result of a turtle sighting in the murky waters surrounding Fulk Lake. This wasn’t just any turtle, but a turtle of monstrous proportions—400 or so pounds of skin and shell, as big as a car, or close.

The Hidden Objective Narrator in Andrea Barrett’s “The Littoral Zone”

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The uninflected prose of an objective narrator has seemingly declined in contemporary literature in favor of the “voicier” POVs such as first person, second person, or third person close. We are told that reflecting characters’ personalities in the language—such as by collapsing the distance between the way they speak and the way the story is narrated—is a good thing.

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The uninflected prose of an objective narrator has seemingly declined in contemporary literature in favor of the “voicier” POVs such as first person, second person, or third person close. We are told that reflecting characters’ personalities in the language—such as by collapsing the distance between the way they speak and the way the story is narrated—is a good thing.

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Brevity I Can Do: Win Tickets to See Anne Carson’s “Antigone”

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In the spirit of finding inspiration in the interdisciplinary, we’re giving away two tickets to Antigone to one lucky fan of Michigan Quarterly Review.

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In the spirit of finding inspiration in the interdisciplinary, we’re giving away two tickets to Antigone to one lucky fan of Michigan Quarterly Review.

Come to the Kerrytown Bookfest

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Going to be in the Ann Arbor area this weekend? Come see us Sunday at the Kerrytown Bookfest–we’ll be at Table 43, handing out free magnets and selling (cheap!) back issues of the journal.

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Going to be in the Ann Arbor area this weekend? Come see us Sunday at the Kerrytown Bookfest–we’ll be at Table 43, handing out free magnets and selling (cheap!) back issues of the journal.

Writing the Dead

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By now, I have been a teacher of creative writing much longer than I was a pool lifeguard. I have come to believe that one of the main jobs of literature is to see the present moment—whatever that moment may be, in the context of the text—with focus and clarity. Good writing doesn’t constantly look back or look ahead. Each word is a world, and a good writer puts that world in front of you when you read.

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By now, I have been a teacher of creative writing much longer than I was a pool lifeguard. I have come to believe that one of the main jobs of literature is to see the present moment—whatever that moment may be, in the context of the text—with focus and clarity. Good writing doesn’t constantly look back or look ahead. Each word is a world, and a good writer puts that world in front of you when you read.

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