Comments for Susan McCarty

Comment on Read Out by Angus

Angus — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:41:34 +0000

Know what else causes people to make all kinds of connections, all over the place? Tripping acid. Just a thought.

Comment on Reviewed by admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:42:51 +0000

Wow, thanks Danielle!

Comment on Reviewed by Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:25:58 +0000

Hi Susan,
Wanted to let you know I received Parcel this week and your story enticed me to read on. I loved “The Escape Artist.” So beautifully done.
All the best to you.
Danielle

Comment on Urban Arias by admin

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:34:17 +0000

Hey, I’m really glad and I hope things get better. (fucking grad school).

Comment on Urban Arias by Idler King

Idler King — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:35:39 +0000

This may come too late, too strange, and too anonymously, but this evening I sat in Harvard Yard under eerie dark of summer cloud cover, 3089 miles from the base of my failing grad school career, anxiously passing time before what I was sure would be another excruciating session of group therapy, and was immensely comforted by your story “City/Body: Fragments” in this issue. Thank you for seeing and for writing.

Comment on This Again by Some scattered thoughts on the MFA writing degrees | Matt Kirkpatrick

Some scattered thoughts on the MFA writing degrees | Matt Kirkpatrick — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:25:09 +0000

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Comment on The new Utne Reader… by admin

admin — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:37:28 +0000

Paul and Gary, thank you so much! Thanks for reading the essay in the first place and for taking the time to come here and comment. It really means a lot to me.

Gary: I agree–writing about work is important. It’s where we spend all our time. Making it interesting is another challenge completely. I’m working on other essays about work and that’s the biggest challenge for me. But I think work is inherently strange if we can step out of it enough to look at it somewhat objectively. Still, the time I spent temping at an insurance agency is going to be hard to write about!

Comment on The new Utne Reader… by Gary Presley

Gary Presley — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:04:45 +0000

Good morning … I’m a long-time member of an on-line writer critique group, The Internet Writing Workshop. One sub-group discusses creative nonfiction, and this week we all read “Services Pending.” There’s about 30 of us who actively participate in that portion of the workshop, and I don’t think there has been one negative comment about the essay. Many in the group have been published in prominent venues, which may be of no real import other than the essay was closely read, analyzed, and appreciated for its craft.

One of the older (in age) members of the group, a man well-published, was especially thrilled because he thinks writing about “work” is an important step for a writer.

I’ve tried it myself, writing about the job I did the longest, but the essay has ballooned into a creative nonfiction mini-novella, a bloated 7,000 words.

All the best. I thought you might like to know a couple of dozen people read your work on-line and appreciated it.

And that makes me think about an essay of T C Boyle’s we read in the NYTIMES. I was so curious about his use of the word “sanguine” that I found a forum where he participated and asked him about which meaning of the word he meant to apply. “Blood red, blooky?” Or “optimistic and cheerful?”

His reply was, “Yes.”

Gary

Comment on The new Utne Reader… by paul pekin

paul pekin — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:57:19 +0000

Susan, we read your “Services Pending,” on our discussion group, so far everyone liked it. A lot! Congratulations on such good work.

Comment on The new Iowa Review by admin

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:51:55 +0000

Hey, thanks B.E.!