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C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Feb 19, 2018

Nothing You Do Will Have Any Effect On The Game

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

May 6, 2017

Love For The Long Poem

Organ Mountains by Caitlin Malings seem much about the enjoying of threat — the idea you might be struck by lightening…

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Mar 11, 2016

Years In Glitch: Procrastination As An Art Form

You don’t have to be an artist any more.

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Jun 1, 2018

Other Womaning

Lorrie Moore’s How to Be an Other Woman, from her collection Self-Help is a instructive-styled short story in which the protagonist struggles with becoming the role. While it seems that it is easy enough to do — fall in love with a stranger who seems in control of their world, discover afterwards that…

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Feb 16, 2018

Undone, I’ve Made Today Warm

Earlier this month I had to buy a specific issue of Poetry so that I could read You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I’ve Made Today Warm in it’s full fold-out glory. I originally heard Paige Lewis read it on the Poetry Magazine Podcast, where it is explained that the poem is laid out…

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Jul 19, 2019

Everyone Cried

Lydia Davis has a new piece in the New Yorker called Everyone Cried. Like a lot of Lydia’s work, the story picks at the little…

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C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Sep 30, 2018

That if it weren’t for the poems lifting you up

Rosebud Ben-Oni’s recent column in Kenyon Review uses the idea of a “conscious poem” — a poem that knows it exists to ask questions about how poetry comes into existence at all. When is a poem a poem? When you finish writing the last line, the…

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Feb 26, 2018

Much like god in the end.

This week, I have been reading Lynn Mitchell’s The Red Beach Hut as a kind of palate cleanser to last week’s Amygdalatropolis.

Last week’s novel did leave me kind of ruined by the absolute outpouring of filth that seemed deeply real — because everything/nothing is real/matters…

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Nov 11, 2017

Dustsceawung

Do you pick up stray books? If you saw a book unaccompanied on a bus, lonely, lost, would you take it home or would you hand it in?

C J Eggett in Etch To Their Own

Nov 23, 2017

This World Is Full Of Monsters, and We’re Fine Thanks

The biggest thing from this week is This World Is Full Of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer. It’s an abstract story of a metamorphosis forced upon our protagonist unwillingly. There is a story on the doorstep, abandoned, orphaned — that is…

These were the top 10 stories published by Etch To Their Own; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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