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A Small Boy
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March 14, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A couple of days ago the book “The novels of Henry James” by Edward Wagenknecht arrived at my door. My …
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Category: Guest Post, Podcast, The Picture Goers | Tags: art, audio, bathtub, brain, Edward Wagenknecht, Henry James, Painting, prose, Sargent, small boy
How to start a novel
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December 9, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

“The world is very big.” Writer and musician Stephen Hastings-King (SHK) said this in a recent discussion on Fictionaut titled “starting …
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Category: Commentary, Goings-on, Guest Post, Interview, Writerly Advice | Tags: facebook, fictionaut, flash, formalism, Gaston Bachelard, novel, outline, Plato, political, Rene Girard, sebald, Sigmund Freud, spiritual, Stephen Hastings-King, Tyler Findlay, writing
Caught in the Crossfire: Moments of Truth
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June 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

(Julie O’Yang is a writer and visual artist from Amsterdam. We recently met on the back of a virtual napkin for an hour of literary courting. The result was this cross-fire discussion ranging from Art to Amsterdam and from Butterfly (also the title of Julie’s last novel) to Bejing. …

Category: Carnival, Guest Post, Interview | Tags: Blake, butterfly, crossfire, DNA, duchamp, food, Gardner, interview, Julie O'Yang, Robots, writing
the second of anything is always a copy of something original but that doesn’t mean it’s better or worse
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August 13, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

i like what frank hinton writes on his blog about writing. i like frank’s honesty. i also like that frank is …
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Category: alt lit, Commentary, Goings-on, Guest Post | Tags: 1977, 2009, Agent, American Apparel, Bill Clegg, Hermann Hesse, Hipster, John Gardner, Michel Foucault, quote, Siddharta, tao lin
Blogging For Writers – A Grammar
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August 7, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

“A grammar has been called a list of what is to be done with it.” –Gertrude Stein, How To Write …
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Category: Guest Post, Writerly Advice | Tags: blog, facebook, gertrude stein, grammar, how to write, journalism, lascaux, process, social media, the view from here, tips, twitter, writing
Cathedral
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February 24, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

When our daughter is in school, my wife and I walk up and down our flat shouting “hard hard hard” …
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Category: Guest Post, Metafiction, Writerly Advice
Gastarbeiter: xTx
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February 11, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

In her guest post, xTx, our friendly anonymous gastarbeiter, talks about the Olsen Twins and her new collection “Normally Special” …
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Category: Gastarbeiter, Guest Post | Tags: Gastarbeit, Miley Cyrus, Normally Special, Olsen Twins, Tinkerbell, xTx
Gastarbeiter: Susan Gibb
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January 28, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Second in our new series of friendly gastarbeiters: enjoy “On a Successful Writing Year, or There Is Life After Rejection”, …
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Category: Gastarbeiter, Guest Post | Tags: development, life, rejection, Susan Gibb, writerly, writing
Gastarbeiter: Darryl Price
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January 14, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Nothing to Flawnt welcomes its first friendly Gastarbeiter: read “The End of My Journal And the Start of My Journey” …
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Category: Gastarbeiter, Guest Post | Tags: darryl price, gastarbeiter, god, journal, journey, lord, poet

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.

Now at Amazon as paperback and on Kindle. See also goodreads.

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Marcus Speh

(Birkenkrahe) — Storyteller & Professor

I am German writer who lives in Berlin. My short fiction has been published widely. My work has been nominated for a Micro Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two Best of the Net awards and two Million Writers Awards, and a novella of mine was longlisted for the Paris Literary Prize. My short fiction collection "Thank You For Your Sperm" is published in 2013 by MadHat Press. My mosaic novel "Gizella" is forthcoming from Folded Word Press. I have a lush web site at marcusspeh.com (English), I blog on Tumblr und Deutsch auf marcusspeh.de. Join me on Facebook, on Twitter, Pinterest or send me an email.