'Cat' by Alice May Connolly
what is it: ~28 page A5 zine featuring some poems and short stories.
what i thought: this is one of the best zines i've read in a while. nice variety in content. i keep on picking it up and dipping in and out of it. one of my favourite poems is one about the Dalai Lama (and the Christchurch earthquakes (?)) near the middle. the second half of the zine kind of follows a format of v short poems on the left hand page and longer stuff on the right. one of the pages just says 'your topless is giving me an anxiety attack'. feel like i would like to read a 20-page "american short story"-type thing by alice and also a ~90 page poem collection. no pressure alice, just sayin.
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
what is it: ~200 page book on writing fiction.
what i thought: tbh i'm still very much in the middle of reading this atm. feel like i keep on having these revelations while reading this and have probably thought 'why didn't i read this three years ago?' about once every three pages. kinda wish i'd bought this instead of taking that creative writing class with all those middle-aged women where i didn't really learn anything and my tutor said my writing style was "like looking through a window without any curtains". anyway, i guess i'd recommend this book. maybe it depends on where you are as your 'development as a writer' idk. comment if you disagree. or don't. idc.
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