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How to love your own book
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May 20, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Past. As I’m recording1 this blog post I realize that I really, really don’t like using this space to relate news, …
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Category: Goings-on, TYFYS | Tags: Amazon, berlin, book, facebook, Folded Word, google, MadHat Press, Marc Vincenz, MBA, Sperm, twitter, TYFYS
Net Worth
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March 24, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Readers of my posts or my fiction may think that I am all over the place mentally, emotionally, procedurally…nothing could …
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Category: Facebook, The Picture Goers, TYFYS, Writerly Advice | Tags: blog, Communication, creativity, facebook, forum, google, interview, marcusspeh, network, podcast, post, quote, readers, tumblr, twitter, TYFYS, value-add, writing
Summoning Stein — feel the love
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February 3, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

…a while back on Facebook, when a writer friend said she had difficulty reading Stein after which many other chimed …
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Category: Review, Writerly Advice | Tags: Carl Van Vechten, facebook, gertrude stein, Ida, Lesbian, Lynne Tillman, New York Times, Susan Gibb, William H Gass
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, novel, Sigmund Freud, writing, sebald, Stephen Hastings-King, Tyler Findlay, Gaston Bachelard, Rene Girard, outline, formalism, Plato, spiritual, political
What does it mean to be published now?
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September 16, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I can’t believe that I’m publishing yet another post on publishing. But when David Ackley asked the question last week …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Commentary, Writerly Advice | Tags: Alt Lit, Alt Lit Gossip, digital, facebook, fictionaut, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, publishing, Virginia Woolf
Recycling Facebook
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September 14, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Originally, I only wanted to share a few posts from Facebook over at my blog (a little like what I …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Facebook, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, Action, Aotearoa, beach sloth, cathedral, Christmas, Christopher Allen, Christopher Forsley, Darwin, Elephant, Ernst Jandl, Existentialism, facebook, Figure, frank hinton, Friederike Mayröcker, Friendship, Gizella, Ken Clarke, Lego, Lettau, Mexican Dude, New Zealand, PANK, Robots, Roxane Gay, S. Teri O'Type, Serenity, Susan Tepper, Tiny Hardcore Press, TYFYS, Vatican, Veszprem, wolves
halfway
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August 23, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

You may have noticed that I’ve been busy blogging since end of June as part of a 100 day project. …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Carnival, Goings-on | Tags: 100 days 2012, blogs, Dorothee Lang, facebook, reflection
the berlin summer sucks but beach sloth scores while an american grandmother blows up a beautiful buick
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July 23, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Beach Sloth said: «I really love your work. Will you ever do any readings here in America?» — i replied: «hi, …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Gastarbeiter, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, beach sloth, facebook, twitter
Subtle is the Lord — Te Nave Nave Fenua
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May 10, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I have [P]interests, too. Mostly, I pin things to my Litboard and write a few lines about them. Sometimes, these …
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Category: Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: Beachsloth, Cosmic Turtle, Dürer, Einstein, facebook, Gauguin, Pinterest, ScoopIt, Storify, WordPress
A Week On The Far Side Of The Moon
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February 5, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

For the past year, I thought I could beat Facebook as a place to make contacts and spread the word …
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Category: Facebook, Goings-on | Tags: A Baker's Dozen, Alt Lit Gossip, Dürer, facebook, Freud, ILK Journal, Jupiter, NASA, Orwell, Sultan, tumblr, Turtleneck Press

(Birkenkrahe) — Storyteller & Professor

I am German writer who lives in Berlin. My short fiction has been published in elimae, Mad Hatter's Review, kill author, PANK and elsewhere. First published in 2009 at Metazen, I've 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.