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Carver’s Ending of Cathedral: “It’s Really Something”
One of the things that I like best about asking fellow writers to write for my blog during these “A Week With…” posts is the variety of...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jan 25, 20133 min read
Carver’s Cathedral: Different Interpretations at Different Stages of Life
Heidi Moore writes wonderfully re-imagined modern stories based on Greek mythology, among other things. She is also a medical doctor and...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jan 24, 20133 min read
Naming the Voice: Prejudice and Change in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
Clifford Garstang wrote two of the best books I read last year (links at the end of this post) and I am happy to host his contribution to...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jan 23, 20134 min read
A Week With Raymond Carver’s Cathedral
Today marks the start of my third installment of the “A Week With…” series where I invite some of my favorite friends and writers to...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jan 21, 20132 min read
A Week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Dramatic Irony vs. Antithetical Discourse
Belinda Nicoll is the author of the memoir, Out of Sync, as well as a writing and life coach. (You can read an earlier interview I did...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Dec 18, 20123 min read
In case you missed it: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Earlier today I kicked off my December guest blog blizzard which will focus on Dorothy Parker’s short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. In...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Dec 17, 20121 min read
A Good Man…Beyond the Names We Know
Naming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Nov 21, 20123 min read
A Good Man…Good vs. Evil
I met Kelly Fordon while I was pursuing my MFA. She was working on a novel told from the point of view of a U.S. Congressman’s young...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Nov 20, 20124 min read
A Good Man…What’s in a Name?
As I announced yesterday, I am going to spend this week on the blog sharing some words of literary wisdom from some of my wonderful...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Nov 19, 20124 min read
Micro Review – What the Zhang Boys Know, by Clifford Garstang
Good fiction transports us into other worlds. Sometimes, this takes the form of the sweeping Civil War epic or the Deep Space...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Oct 1, 20122 min read
September Reading List
Here is the run-down of my reading list for September: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene – Greene’s masterpiece is both hauntingly...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Sep 30, 20121 min read
The Goodbye Child: An Interview With Dominique Traverse Locke
I was privileged to hear today’s guest, Dominique Traverse Locke, read from her graduating thesis. I remember very clearly that I was...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Sep 7, 20126 min read
Solomon’s Ditch – Short Fiction in Ozone Park Journal
Ozone Park Journal, the online literary magazine edited and designed by students in the MFA program at Queens College in New York (not...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Dec 19, 20111 min read
Too Bad, by Dorothy Parker
[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Aug 10, 20115 min read
Short Fiction Review: Dorothy Parker, Such a Pretty Little Picture
[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Aug 1, 20115 min read
Online fiction review: In Between by Megann Sept
Twelve Stories is an online literary journal that comes out every time the editors agree on twelve stories, unanimously. Sometimes that...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jul 27, 20112 min read
Wednesday blog: Online Fiction – The Collagist
Today’s fiction feature is the short story, Where Everyone is a Star, by Ashley Farmer, featured in the current online issue of The...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jul 20, 20112 min read
Wednesday Online Fiction: And the Rain Fell Through Her Fingers
There is some fine fiction (and poetry and non-fiction) at storySouth, and this week I’m highlighting the headliner short fiction story...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jul 13, 20113 min read
Online Read: The Cure, by Rahul Mehta
There are a number of really good places to find short fiction online, and Fifty-Two Stories is one of them. You should definitely...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jul 6, 20111 min read
Wednesday Morning: Online Fiction
Instead of just posting ONE story to read online (which will likely be what I do, most Wednesday mornings) I thought I would start with...

Eric Sheridan Wyatt
Jun 29, 20111 min read
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