Hi there, trying to "print" the Aimee bender short story OFF, and when I hit "printable version" and entirely different store appears.
--sg
05/27 |
Aimee I just happened upon your story and it is just wow!!!
--RMW
06/29 |
The excerpt left off the most important part, the end. Cutting it there made it another story entirely. I know you only have limited space, so I suggest people should read the whole thing.
--TB
05/16 |
Aimee:
I love the quote: "I wear perfume so expensive, it doesn't smell like anything but skin." If I can use this on my website, www.lmsparty.com (on the blog or the buy perfume page), I'd really appreciate it. I will give you credit for it and I will send you a free product of your choice.
MarieLynn Group--LMS Perfume Parties
--mlg
12/20 |
what a treat! Just read the review of your new book in the ny times, and was curious- and then here on nerve- one of the stories that was mentioned in the review. Life is good-and and the story was excellent.
--br
08/22 |
Aimee, if this gets to you, great story! It was really nice seeing your name again. I took a couple writing classes from you at UCLA extension, god, I don't know, five years ago. Coincidentally, I few weeks ago I took flammable skirt off the shelf and read a few of the stories.
All the best to you.
Bill Breslo
--bb
08/19 |
Hi Aimee, it looks like a fun story and all, but does your protagonist get it on with any african american men?
--BF
08/19 |
This is amazing. Can't wait for the book!
--bs
08/19 |
svb - being without an ear - even one - would make one earless. what would you suggest? without one ear? missing just one ear? half a pair of ears? the writing is effective; the writer creates a voice of a narrator and characters and people who say things like 'earless' in a story and it manages to make sense. it does van gogh no injustice.
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08/19 |
this is a really nice piece ... the kind of piece that reminds us that fiction remains a useful genre even as it disappears from more and more print magazines. you couldn't write this as memoir -- the reader would be too pissed off at the narrator -- but as a short story it works beautiful (not to suggest that this protagonist is the narrator, which may or may not be the case). this is one tough young angry bitch of a protagonist and yet there is just a thread of humanity there that feels as if it would unravel into a much larger quantity were it pulled. compelling writing, well done.
--ted
08/18 |
Just one note: The narrator refers to "dead, earless van Gogh," when in fact, the artist simply cut off one ear, so he was not "earless." I feel accuracy is the key to effective writing.
--SVB
08/18 |
Great job introducing the character! She obviously needs to grow up a little, and hopefully something will happen later on in the story to cause that. I'd love to see those paintings, though!
--JCF
08/18 |
this is the kind of writing that nerve should constantly aspire to present to its readers.
excellent!
--av
08/17 |
Hi Aimee - I heard you read "Feel This Girl" at the Edinburgh Pub in SF back in 2000, and I've been a fan ever since. I still love Girl in the Flammable Skirt. You're poetry and humor and wryness are such a great, unique combination...good luck with your new book!
--MO
08/17 |
Hi Aimee:
Loved the story--this is your old Milwaukee friend--you actually met my wife and son at Shwartz's book store but I was out of town--send me a note off line -yitz@abdata.com (I know this is a crazy putting my e-mail out there but lost yours so I hope this isn't a bone headed move)
Jerry
--jb
08/17 |
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