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“Muscles and sex” at the Frankfurt book fair
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October 13, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

The e-book seems to small a concept to me sometimes. My writer’s heart refuses to beat in the new pithy …
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Category: Commentary | Tags: editor, Frankfurt Book Fair, Mo Yen, Nobel, Richard Ford, Schwarzenegger, writer
The New Zealand Chronicles
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January 28, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’m going to change a few things with this post: I will (try to) adhere to proper capitalization. I will …
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Category: Carnival, Memoir | Tags: 2012, Aotearoa, Art Deco, Asimov, Auckland, Blogfest, Foundation, Frankfurt, Grey Lynn, Neptun, New Zealand, Odysseus, piano, Poseidon, Shell Centre, Shortland Street, Sparta, Strangers, Tuarangi Road, writer, writing
“What Is The Best Writing Advice You Actually Follow”
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September 12, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I keep picking the juiciest berries from online conversations elsewhere and lug them here. This stimulating question was asked by Kathryn …
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Category: Commentary, Goings-on | Tags: Collection, Flash Fiction, John Gardner, novel, Novelist, publishing, red lemonade, writer
«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
Falling Into Hugeness
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November 28, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Dear accidental reader, be careful now: this is strictly for writers. It’s not called ‘Falling Into Hugeness‘ for no reason …
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Category: Metafiction, Writerly Advice | Tags: Hugeness, Illumination, novel, Ozick, Reader, Riddle, writer, writing
A new beginning
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June 24, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I haven’t come round to writing blog posts yet since the whole point of retracting from the net was to …
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Category: Goings-on | Tags: absence, community, elvy, fiction, flash, Flawnt, interview, networking, novel, serious, Speh, stein, voices, writer, writing

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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.

New Sun Rising—Stories For Japan

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

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Marcus Speh

Marcus Speh

German storyteller

My short fiction collection "Thank You For Your Sperm" was published

in 2013 by MadHat Press. My mosaic novel "Gizella" is forthcoming

from Folded Word Press.

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