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The Vonnegut Challenge
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April 11, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

At the writing community Fictionaut, Ramon Collins started in interesting debate on an old issue, a challenge for the modern writer thrown out …
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Category: Commentary, Philosophy, Question, Writerly Advice | Tags: anniversary, Bertrand Russell, D. H. Lawrence, David Shields, fictionaut, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Matt Robinson, Ramon Collins, Shakespeare, Watch and Ward, Yareah
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
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
Spring Things To Do
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March 18, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

This spring I will forsake all donations in the form of soft compliments. Those that I have received already I …
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Category: Memoir, Stories | Tags: fictionaut, the24project, Yareah
The Serious Writer Occupies Wall Street
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November 20, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

[listen while you read] When thinking of the commotion surrounding Wall Street, the serious writer gets very upset. But he …
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Category: Metafiction, Stories | Tags: Atticus Books, fictionaut, kaffe in katmandu, Occupy, Occupy Writers, Serious Writer, six degress
What makes good writing?
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October 22, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

…. is one of the question discussed at Fictionaut in a thread on the “Philosophy Of Writing“. There were many …
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Category: Commentary, Question, Writerly Advice | Tags: abyss, camus, China, creation, entertainment, fictionaut, Freud, Gardner, Ghaddafi, morality, Philosophy, writing
«The Writer as Recluse?»
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September 10, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Under this title, James Lloyd Davis recently asked a bunch of interesting questions in a post at Fictionaut, pointing out that …
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Category: Commentary, Writerly Advice | Tags: Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, fictionaut, J D Salinger, James Joyce, james lloyd davis, John Gardner, Recluse, Thomas Pynchon, writer, writing
Mother’s Day
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May 8, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

[listen to podcast while you read] After twenty years of marriage K. had given H. everything except children. It was …
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Category: Podcast, Stories | Tags: age, child, couple, elixir, fictionaut, kaffe in katmandu, mother, mother's day, pregnancy, Youth
A Poet’s Path…
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April 27, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

… doesn’t always lead to where he likes to go. This post is for a poet friend, Darryl Price, former …
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Category: Commentary, Writerly Advice | Tags: community, darryl price, fictionaut, journey, poet, poetry, Rilke, Strength, support, Youth
The Humbling
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March 3, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

i’ve been working on a longer piece for a while now & i thought it might be interesting to talk …
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Category: Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: Borges, carver, emotion, fictionaut, hat, insurance, IRS, jane birkin, kafka, kassandra, kierkegaard, marriage, mathematics, nietzsche, pain, purchase, pynchon, septic tank, serge gainsbourg, shallow, tax return, vonnegut, zaz

(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.