Author Archives: Andrew Roe

Scrolling Headlines and What They Us About Us

Find out here (it’s a new story of mine that’s in A-Minor Magazine, and it’s one of those he/she stories that I seem to be so fond of).

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Growing into Novelhood

“I was a semiconscious writer in the beginning. Just sat and wrote something, or read the newspaper, or went to the movies. Over time I began to understand, one, that I was lucky to be doing this work, and, two, … Continue reading

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The Mental Illness of Persistence

From an article about New Yorker editor David Remnick (by Nicholson Baker): “Remnick is modest about these writing successes, which he attributes chiefly to ‘sitzfleisch’ – the capacity to sit in a chair until the work is done. ‘A lot … Continue reading

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Pear Noir! Number Six

Today I received my contributor copies of the latest issue of Pear Noir!It looks purty. Lots of good folks in this issue, including Amelia Gray, Jessica Anthony, Mark Strand, Ryan Ridge, Salvatore Pane and many others. Also included is my … Continue reading

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Don’t Write What You Know

That’s advice from Bret Anthony Johnston in the Atlantic’s annual fiction issue. I guess this issue has been on my mind lately (see posts below). Here’s a quote from the Johnston’s article:“I don’t know the origin of the ‘write what … Continue reading

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