David Erlewine

Thanks for the wishes, David. I know you’re in the next issue which is very very cool.

thanks for the double comments on biology. i’m going to get started on reworking momentarily, unless i fall asleep first, then it’ll be this weekend.

Thanks David. Frankly, the fact that you remember it from last summer made my day:)

Hey David, such a good suggestion you made on Cactus - thanks for pointing that out to me, and thanks for the read, too.

Thanks, it’s nice to be here. This is a spiffy site.

“Victory” is nice? I’d say nasty! Just, kidding, David; thanks for the thumbs up.

i’m feeling it out.

Thank you very much for your comment on my workshoppy “poem”, I appreciate the read!

Thanks, David. This looks like a great community.

Dude, SDSU (my college) has some super dooper secret stash of Kafka’s writings. It’s one of the best in the world or something. I just found out about it. I’m gonna look into it, take photos and sell them online later day. If I can pull it off then I’ll hook you up for free.

thanks, glad you’re finding the comments helpful. I think we can all get more serious about editing— the actual writing, at least for me, is pretty much just letting loose with the inner ape and hurling my shit against the wall.

Haha, I guess you hadn’t heard that I’m a huge deal now. A kind article though, pretty cool. Backer is a swell dude.

I’m still in San Antonio actually. The Austin thing is an oversight/typo. There’s no medical school there, as cool as it might otherwise be.

David, Walk on Water WAS a great movie. Maybe I’ll take it out of blockbuster again!

Congrats on Staccato Fiction acceptance.

Thanks for the kind words, David. I think I came across “A & P” as well in my first & only college creative writing class (CW wasn’t a major where I went). We had to re-write the story from the POV of one of the other minor characters; I think I went with the butcher.

Thanks, David. You know, I don’t think A Farewell to Arms was a very good book. Or maybe I’m recalling the movie. I read it many years ago, too.

So funny that you bought HAPPY, I loved hearing that and about the baseball stats. You must’ve invaded my unconscious mind while I was writing the piece. Plz remember to give me a shout when Mike Czy interview is up! & HAPPY V-DAY

I first met Mike Czy & Karen at Housing Works Book Fair in NYC years ago. They would drive all night from Ohio to come to Housing Works weekend! They were intrepid! I once sent them a photo of my old dog (close to when he was dying) and Mike wrote to say they had tacked it on the wall of their office. I never forgot that. It showed me a deep humanity.

Thanks for the comment on Aching Hours.
God bless parents. Yeah, my mom has all those Campbell soup recipe books. My wife goes crazy (in a positive way) when we visit my folks; my mom still whips up something that calls for a can of cream of mushroom.

All the best,
Douglas

Wasn’t a quote, as on paper in a source, as what he said to me….or indicated.

Thanks for your comment on Party Line. Michael Kimball is one of my favorite writers, too. This was the first story I published in Taint and Michael and I worked quite a bit together on it. He is, as you say, a great editor as ell as a great writer.

I think Roger Angell said something similar about editing and leaving his own (very good) fiction behind.

Thank you, Dave, for saying nice things about The Line. Been a while since we talked. How DO you do all that you do? Teaching my classes is about all I can handle. You have the energy of Balzac.

Hi David, I still can’t figure out if i should be responding via wall or story commentary page (so I left a rambling message there as well) but thank you so much for your kind thoughts on Jew.

I see you’re a pro here so I really look forward to dipping into your work.

As for masochism, I guess we all need our kicks.

Thanks again.

Hope you took that “wavering” as a compliment, David. One of the hardest things for a writer is to project a voice for each story. But when one can produce that, and then allow it to show the doubts within it, well, that’s damn good writing.

Hi David, thanks so much for your comments on my story!!

Way to not recognize that micro award nod, Erlewine. I totally twitter mentioned you with a link. I could be offended, but we are both so awesome I won’t bother.

i used to think i wrote to get to know myself better. those were the same years i spent in therapy. i am more and better separated from my writing now - paradoxically my life now makes better feed for stories. it is as if the obsession with knowing myself blocked me from being with myself, if that makes any sense? your story: a wonderful key. hole.

David
WCW’s stories are still in print. The title of the book that I have is Make Light of It. FYI, I once assigned my freshman students the task of writing a short story of their own, and one of them turned in “The Use of Force.” The only change she made was to substitute her name for the author’s. She was terribly embarrassed when I called her on it.

Yeah, you “got” it, ha. But it doesn’t feel finished. I need something to HAPPEN. Yeah? Yeah. I totally do. Blorf.

Filch away. I certainly am not using anything in my brain for writing. Meet Tia, one big pile of writer’s block. Take what you can, throw back the rest.

Thanks for always having a painfully kind comment, you.

“…envision another life, so effortlessly, one I the reader never think the narrator will inhabit, wanting her to against all hope.” You and me both, mister. I guess this is what we call ‘write what you know’ :)

David, thanks for commenting on my wall. I’m in awe of your continually expanding list of publications.

I live in Glen Burnie, also referred to affectionately as “Glen Burnout,” though I’ve lived in Baltimore (Hampden, where I grew up), Towson, Rosedale, and some other less desirable areas. Glen Burnie could also be referred to as “near Annapolis” but that seems a bit of a stretch.

Hey, there’s a wall here.

Hey David — thanks so much for your comments on my SLQ story. So glad you liked it.

Thanks, man. I still can’t believe I’m in there.

David, thanks for the wall post…in 3rd grade i was enterprising enough to put together a small theatrical troupe for the purpose of dramatizing the death moments of the assassinated presidents…so i had to read your story, to maybe finally get the answer i was in search of back then.

Thanks, glad you liked it. I take it you mean that one where I’m “wrestling” with Roland Barthes?

What’s >kill author?

My friend John Minichillo turned me on to this site way back when it first started and I’m just now exploring it. So sorry if I double post replies—still figuring all that out.

Yeah, Sam is great for putting that up. I think I saw some picture with Adam R in a Brewers cap, that’s it right?

Thanks David.

Was going to post this as a comment on “Almost Shaped”, then decided maybe it was more appropriate as a personal comment…

But you know what? I hate that I love so many of your stories.

I always read them out of friendship and/or morbid curiosity; but then a good eighty-five percent of the time, I adore them too much not to comment.

You make me sound like such a kiss-ass.

david, thanks so much! i didn’t even know elimae was up. i just checked it out and read you story too. great to be in good company… (ps i have just started blogging of sorts, take a look: www.bettyboopinspired.blogspot.com

David,

My body’s up in Gaithersburg, but my mind’s mostly in Brooklyn or Miami, sometimes Santa Cruz . . the memory threads of the past.

Walter

David, I didn’t merely like it … i loved it!

Yep, on FB as well … or, maybe it was because of the great pieces I just sent you. Nice interview with Roxanne. A bit, well very new to all of this, so please bear with me.

Hi! Still getting used to this place. Every website has its format that takes some time to make sense. I now know this is my wall

They were sincerely meant! And THANK YOU!!!! I am flattered, will join and so look forward to working and participating with the group.

Thanks for the (forever ago) invite. Once I get my bearings and can follow the flow, I’ll try to jump in!

Hey David,

Thanks for the props. You’ve lived in more Texas cities than I have — and I grew up here. Maybe I should get out more.

I actually used your FRIGG story as one of several examples last night for my class regarding list stories.

Hey David! Thanks for the invite to both the site and the workshop. I’m gonna take some time to look around and then give it a go. Looks great!

thanks to everyone earlier this year for their helpful edits to my “what i’d say to”/covert stutter story - it’s now up on FRiGG at http://www.friggmagazine.com/issuetwentysix/splashpages/DavidErlewine.htm

Nice interview on MSNBC - finally saw it. You’ve been on fire man! Nice!

Thank you for the kind words!

you have a lot of comments!

Thanks for furthering the legitimacy of Flash Fiction on MSNBC!

well, it took me ten minutes to scroll to the bottom of your wall here to post, but I wanted to say great interview with Joe and also, that news piece on hint fiction was very cool

it takes diagrams to chart the relations in terms made to your wall post. and it’ll be monday before justin returns to the internet to give us our assignments for the baltimore everday fiction juggernaut genius-ougt, or even tell us what it is, so well, until then i dunno, dave….

look forward to your questions! thanks, man!

“PERV! (ha!) and thanks for punking everyone last night on Twitter. I take back that you’re so cute! hee!”

hey david - thanks for the invite, appreciate the kind words - gotta look around, looks like a very interesting community

Thanks for the comments David!

Oh buddy. Look at this place. It’s all new to me.

thank YOU, dave erlewine. hey, i give you five stars on the profaneness of your mouth. you swear with excellent abandon.

Awesome. If I see the word stutter in my contest-entry spreadsheet, I’ll know who to blame. And don’t you dare ruin cereal or bagels, or I won’t be able to eat breakfast anymore. Ha.

good good, how about you?

What’s shakin’ Erlewine? I had a feeling you would be into this. Thanks for the invite to your group. Lemme get familiar with this thing and then I’ll jump in.
Cheers.

Thanks, man.
I hope people don’t think I’m all doom and gloom. There’s some lighter stories in MLKNG SCKLS and Falcons.
See you soon, sir.

Thanks for the e-vite. Exactly what I’ve been needing. See you there.

Yes, I finished it yesterday. Bloody HELL! I’m blown away.

DAVID! You are EVERYONE and doing EVERYTHING! I can’t keep up with you. Congrats on a stellar week, month, year. Keep it rolling…..and thanks for the BULL nudge. Story has been posted in the group. I’m off like a herd of turtles.

Sir David,

Yes, Eviscerator Heaven is a wicked name. Just wicked, I agree. I thought you might look up some shit on the Loretta story and you did, which pleases me. I do love to throw some history and fact in with my fiction. Seasoning and such. Thanks for the read and comments.

Onward.

Read on Twitter about your flash-fiction editor position, Congratulations!

No rejection letter this time, David!lol

that i could get fired from it or something, seems funny

jesus! take it easy on yourself

I’m not sure how it works exactly, if I should thank you here, or there, but thank you for your wonderful comments, both on my PANK stories, and Queen Isabella— so glad you appreciated them!

the heat is being brung, but in the form of getting submissions together. i forgot how much paper that requires….how’s all in your world?

Yeah, I’m waiting for the catch now! Surely it couldn’t be THAT easy?!

Hi Dave, the move went fairly well, sadly the cats are in quarantine for 6 months, which is the worst part. Just applied for a writer’s grant today, one of the main reasons we are in the UK, wish me luck!

Somehow I don’t think that’s your real birthday…

my vote for the next DE posting: “What I Would Like”

Hey David, how’s the writing going?

really? Can you just post anything? i.e. published things? I’m kind of scared to do it, to tell you the truth… (shy)

Thanks for the nice comments on my stories, David.

we have the same birthday!

Thanks for the nice comments, David!

David — thanks for the edits on “Arrivals”. I’m going to revise accordingly. I appreciate your thoughtful read.

david, thanks for the nod and the comments on my story. i really appreciate it!

goes well enough. i’ve been doing a lot of traveling this summer and haven’t had time for blog or fnauting. just finished a new story called “Three Days a Red Wolf,” though. how about you? oh, as for Meridian, i’m about to send it out to some places. we shall see.

Thanks for the note, David….And yes- gotta try to keep writing. Always right. Happy travels, my good man.

Excuse all the typos:)

Right back atcha David. That was, in my book, a lovely effed up bit of work….

Hey David - funny you left OH for DC — I did the opposite! We just moved to Akron about 2 months ago, after a while in Georgetown. I call Colorado home, mostly, since I spent 7 years there - and we plan to make our way west of the Mississippi in a few years…but for now, it’s all about exploring the Buckeye State. Recommendations? :-) How’d you end up in DC?

Believe you me, I am a lazy lazy writer. I put as little effort as possible into getting my work out there. Basically, if I can submit online, I’ll play. Only rarely will I print out a story and get an envelope and some stamps and send something out the old-fashioned way. That’s tiring. Duotrope is deceptive. Hee. But seriously. Thanks.

Hi David - It’s my pleasure! It’s a great story.

Thanks for commenting, David.

Hey man! Long time no talk.

Thanks for your appreciate comments re Gimlet, Part I!

Hey, thanks for the (quick!) comments on my story. I appreciate it. And congrats on the first birthday of your daughter. :-)

Sorry, disappeared for a while. I haven’t written anything short for a while you see… Will be back on soon, hope your writing’s going well and look forward to reading your new stuff…

thanks, David, that’s good to hear!

thanks for checking out the blog, man. i need to post more on it, probably, who knows. also, need to get back into the f-naut. buried in papers.

Hi there to you, too! And thank you for the compliment. When I go on and on (and on…) about one sentence, I worry that the world is rolling its eyes. So that’s really nice to hear.
And I love that you just reread THE FLY! I was just talking Mansfield with somebody yesterday…One of my friends is reading E.M. Forster’s HOWARDS END (which is super fun, if you haven’t read it) but Katherine Mansfield totally panned it, in particular this bit about interpersonal relationships and an event concerning a forgotten umbrella (I don’t want to spoil it for everybody). But I just love her. You’ve inspired me to hunt through the stacks and dig out her stories. It’s my turn to reread THE FLY…and maybe BLISS, too.

Cheers.

Bee Season (the book) was amazing. I love the mom. Thanks again for telling me about this place.

Excuse my momness for a moment: Damn cute kid you got there.

Thanks for the comments, David!

ah, very good. where’s it going to be?

thanks, david! i’ll be looking for yours soon!

donald breckenridge has a novel from the ’90s about a bunch of characters living simultaneously in the same place, who never run into each other ever, without any spaces. it’s all one long paragraph, I’ll quote you quoting YESSSSS, “No spaces!”

Hi David,

Thanks for your comments on “Cracking Open.”

Thank you for the warm welcome! It’s always nice to find you’ve been greeted by a kindred soul. I look forward to reading more of your writing.

Hello! Thank you!! I’m looking forward to reading your work! :-) S

David, I really enjoyed reading your work!

Hi David, thanks for the compliments!

Thanks!

Enjoyed Essentially Cured at Black Heart…Got to check out this new one at elimae…

oh man, yours too on elimae. man, sad.

hello, david. i’ve been reading your stuff everywhere it seems. then i keep reading it because i like it so much. nice to meet you. thanks for the wall-note.

happy birthday, david!

You’re welcome, and thank YOU, and Happy Birthday.

Multifunctional wall post.

Thanks so much for your kind and punchy words about my story.
Severe and repaeted thanks.

thanks for all your thoughtful comments!

Aww…thanks, David!

Thanks again for reading and commenting on my work.

Thanks for the comment on Life Interrupted. I took a look at your blog and the link to elimae, very intriguing story there about a jar.

I agree with Crispin. I enjoyed your Tuesday Shorts piece as well. I was going to tell you this on your blog but it wouldn’t let me post my comment for some reason. So now i’m doing it here. There, i’ve done it. Short and powerful stuff. Real, real good.

hey
liked your piece in tuesday shorts
keep it up

Thanks for the comment on “Flicker.” Much appreciated.

i hear you on the flash… it’s great, but can be greedy and not share the creativity with your other stories that want to play. glad you got something out of my stuff (that’s understated, i really appreciate it), keep up the good work!

I know you everywhere now.

Hey, thanks for your comments about my piece, “Baby Love.” I think you’re right, that there’s some underbrush in there. I’d written it quickly and wasn’t sure about what I’d done, once I’d gotten to the end of it. Thanks!

Thanks so much, David. I dug your recent story in Dogzplot (big congrats on the new job by the way). And I just read your story at Pedestal - really, really excellent.

ah, DE you are a generous reader, and this is just what I needed to see after 8 hours in the car sandwiching 4 hours with the in-laws.

Thanks—the feeling is mutual :)

good to see you here, my man. take it easy.