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Missing Stephen
Renowned novelist Stephen Dixon, who contributed to this journal, has died. I can’t tell you how much he will be missed. He’s why we are here. “Stephen Dixon, a prolific novelist and short-story writer whose humorous, freewheeling fiction traced the shocks and jolts of romance, aging and everyday life, in an experimental but plain-spoken style […]
3QR News
Stay tuned for the print issue of 3QR: The Three Quarter Review, expected pub date now 2024. You’ll soon, hopefully, be able to hold 3QTrue in your hands, and to turn actual pages. Pandemic and life delays have stalled us a bit more, but we want to do a nice job. Getting close! This print issue […]
3QR DANIEL DEFOE CONTEST WINNERS / AUTHOR BIOS 2017-18
Our three winners of the 3QR Daniel Defoe Contest tapped into Defoe‘s eclectic heritage: political activist and economist; pioneer of the English novel; pamphleteer and political advisor; down-and-out debtor; modern myth-maker; and overall social rebel and rogue. These 21st century writers’ takes on Defoe’s life (1660-1731) are eclectic as well. See featured images and slide at the […]
The Godfather Speaks
I first met author Lee Gutkind at the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers’ Conference at Goucher College when I was a grad student in the mid-1990s. The conference brought together some of the greatest practitioners of a literary form of nonfiction breaking new ground: creative nonfiction. Featured were authors Tracy Kidder. Susan Orlean. Gay Talese. Mary […]
CRUSOE’S FOOTPRINT by Mary Jo Salter
At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and sets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before; and after this made all the signs to me of subjection, servitude, and submission imaginable, to let me know how he would serve me so long as […]
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