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MIND JAZZ WITH
JOHN
TIMPANE
In the first of a three-part
interview, John
Timpane talks freely about his lifelong love of ideas and
language. Timpane, who recently authored Poetry for Dummies, is an
award-winning journalist as fluent in multiple languages (German,
French, Latin, and Sanskrit, to name but a few) as he is conversant
in quantum mechanics. Timpane received one of the first fellowships
offered by the John Templeton Foundation for journalism in science
and religion, subjects about which he is both passionate and
knowledgeable.
THE SEXIEST GRANDMOM
YOU’VE EVER MET
Who says dating and good
sex should stop after the age of 60? Not Fran Metzman. After reading her
column, “The Age of Reasonable
Doubt,” chances are you’ll agree. Novelist,
mother, and widow, Metzman is looking for a sensitive, intelligent,
sexy soul mate, and she likens the search to going on an
archeological dig in the hinterlands. Funny and intelligent, you
might just find the dating advice you need here.
THE QUIET
MAVERICK
J. C.
Todd, poet and translator, grew up listening to
her mother recite Shakespeare’s sonnets. As Todd puts it, these were
her first lessons on how “the ear gives shape to the mind.” Wendy
Steginsky, Wild River
Review poetry editor, interviews
Todd, describing her “speech as deliberate, her
voice soft.” Todd reveals her many inspirations (napping is one!),
and readers will be fascinated to learn where poetry begins for the
accomplished poet. (It’s not where you might think.)
BEHIND THE
SCENES
What does it really take
to make a good movie? PROPS! Wild River Review columnist
and blogger (“I’m Not Yelling, I’m Cuban”) Raquel Pidal recently worked
behind the scenes handwriting in a journal for the latest M. Night
Shyamalan movie. In Pidal’s witty “Around the Block” column, “The Things I Do For
Money,” she lets readers in on the fun (but
thankfully not the carpal tunnel syndrome).
A WORK OF
ART
“The Michelangelo
Effect,” Jennifer Schelter’s short
story, begins “I’d never had an orgasm when I arrived in Florence,
Italy...” In this bold
exposé, Schelter chronicles the narrator’s sensual adventures while
taking art classes in Italy. She discovers that
Michelangelo’s work turns her on and crafts imaginary conversations
with him. In this edgy tale pulsing with Italian vitality,
Michelangelo becomes not only her muse but also her mentor.
ITCHING TO TELL
A GOOD
STORY?
Wild
River Review invites submissions to its annual Fake
Memoir Contest. The winner will receive a
consultation with a top literary agent. From first-person accounts
of surviving in the Himalayas
without shoes, to surviving life as a celebrity with the inevitable
stint in drug rehab, to the pitfalls of being born at all, Wild River Review is looking
for someone who has a good story to tell (or who knows how to tell a
good story!).
Fake memoirs will be
accepted until September 1, 2006. Contestants should follow
submission guidelines, which can be found in the “Contests” section
of the site.
Wild
River Review updates content throughout each
month. The publication continually searches for and offers
high-quality inventive voices, experimental themes, diverse
subjects, and riveting images from around the world. It is the
creation of a team of professional writers and artists known as the
Wild River Gang.
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