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This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey

por Steve Almond

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I liked the whole thing, but, honestly, I liked the first half - the flash fiction - more than the 2nd half - the "essays" about writing. Very enjoyable nonetheless. ( )
  ez_reader | Jul 7, 2019 |
This pocket-sized book contains very short fiction and essays. The stories are concise and clever. The essays are priceless, especially if you’ve heard Almond read them. And everything is very funny.

From the essays: On writer’s habitual borrowing from other writers” “We’re all basically thieves fencing our goods in broad daylight.” He refers to teaching as peddling his “stolen junk.” Along with the humor, Almond gives practical writing advice on subjects like suspense, style, plot and pacing. ( )
  Hagelstein | Apr 28, 2014 |
This short book of microstories and meditations on writing was printed on Harvard Bookstore's book printing machine. It's a pleasantly packaged self-published item. The only thing I still don't like about books produced this way is the lack of lamination on the covers. It often feels like the ink could rub off on your hands, and in my experience working with books produced on various generations of such short-run-printing machines, that does sometimes happen.

But apart from that, I enjoyed this little book very much. I liked the thirty observations on writing more than the thirty short stories, but that is in part because I think writing advice is best given in small doses. Stories are best given in larger doses. This is not to say that lengthy pieces of writing advice cannot be excellent. They can, but they are not apt to supply me with the handy tools I find most helpful. Perhaps some writers like an extended pep talk and desire dozens of examples for every bit of wisdom they're offered. But to me, good advice provides handy tools. The tools fit many circumstances, and to do so they need to be brief, incisive, easy to remember. The advice here is like that: Here's an overarching goal. Here are some modes of expressions to be avoided. Here is what may be happening when things are not adding up as you intend.

These things are easy to remember and easy to scan over again for a quick refresher. I am a fan of this format and of Almond's viewpoint and advice.

And then there are the stories. As I say, I think stories work better in larger doses. I do like very brief stories too, but they are like appetizers. They are for the moment, and they almost never stick with me. They don't create a sustained effect. They have too little happening for there to be a key resonant moment or a perfect, troubling detail to loom large. I liked most of Almond's stories. They are varied and interesting. They have curious viewpoints. They avoid repetition and encompass a wide collection of experiences. But they come and go quickly, and I found myself reading them over again just a week or so after my first run-through, and very few of them had stuck in my memory.

Of course, my memory is not what it once was, so bear that in mind. ( )
  phredfrancis | Feb 8, 2014 |
This is a tiny little printed book. Steve Almond was a guest on the Live Wire! radio show, and during the intermission they have books for sale by the authors who are on the show. Steve was selling this, and another small format book. I picked them both up. He inscribed this one with "Your job is to love hard!". Despite being less that 80 pages long, it is two books. Starting from one side, it's essays. When those finish, you flip it over, and start reading back towards the center and it's flash fiction. The shortest are probably about 200 words. The essays are similarly short, and are about writing.

He has self-published this. I assume it's intended as a sample, to give readers an inexpensive taste, so they'll come back for more. I love the flash fiction. I had read his book "Candy Freak", and liked it well enough, but had him pegged as someone who writes quirky but factual non-fiction. This did what (I assume) he intended, and sent me rushing to the bookstore to buy some of his fiction.
  mulliner | Jan 30, 2012 |
Almond wrote, designed, published, and distributes this book himself, and the concept is very cool. Read in one direction, there are a number of short essays about the writing craft -- nuggets of advice, really. Flip it over and read in the other direction, and it's a series of very short fiction on a variety of topics.

I love the writing advice. It's the kind of stuff that gets right into your brain and makes you think, "dammit! why have I been such an asshole all these years?" And you want to start writing cleaner, more direct, more purposeful prose right away. As for the stories... I'm less enamoured. I don't know why I fail to fall in love with Almond's fiction, maybe it's just taste. But the weird thing is, he seems to make the exact mistakes in his stories that he warns against in the essays: pretentions, needless obscurity, head-scratching metaphors... A few of them were cool, but for the most part I kept thinking... doctor, heal thyself?

(As for the physical book -- it's very cute, but doesn't hold up quite as well as a real book, I'm afraid. After a few months, the covers feel sticky and the colors are starting to run. I believe it was made using the Harvard Coop's espresso book machine.) ( )
  amydross | Jun 24, 2010 |
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