Monthly Archives: October 2009

Last Few Excerpts from The Brothers Karamazov

“I am telling it. If I tell the whole truth just as it hap­pened I shan’t spare myself. My first idea was a—Karamazov one. Once I was bit­ten by a cen­tipede, brother, and laid up a fort­night with fever from it. Well, I felt a cen­tipede bit­ing at my heart then—a nox­ious insect, you under­stand? …

October 27, 2009 – 11:46 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Comments (6)

The Man with the Knives by Heinrich Boll

One of my favorite short story writ­ers, Hein­rich Böll was a Ger­man writer awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Lit­er­a­ture. The fol­low­ing story is from The Sto­ries of Hein­rich Böll and was trans­lated by Leila Vennewitz:

The Man With the Knives
Jupp held the knife by the tip of the blade, let­ting it jog­gle idly up and …

October 15, 2009 – 1:14 am | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Heinrich Boll | Comments (0)

The Onion, a Fable from The Brothers Karamazov

“You see, Alyosha,” Grushenka turned to him with a ner­vous laugh. “I was boast­ing when I told Rak­itin I had given away an onion, but it’s not to boast I tell you about it. It’s only a story, but it’s a nice story. I used to hear it when I was a child from Matry­ona, …

October 12, 2009 – 10:35 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Comments (4)

Haruki Murakami: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning

This short story is by Haruki Murakami. I copied it from this web­site.
On See­ing the 100% Per­fect Girl One Beau­ti­ful April Morn­ing.
One beau­ti­ful April morn­ing, on a nar­row side street in Tokyo’s fash­ion­able Haru­juku neigh­bor­hood, I walked past the 100% per­fect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any …

October 10, 2009 – 5:56 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami | Comments (2)

All Praise Duotrope, the online, searchable database for writers

Duotrope, a search­able data­base list­ing over 2,000 plus pub­li­ca­tions, is an invalu­able resource for writ­ers like me who need help find­ing a home for their work. That last book or arti­cle you read and were telling every­one about may not have ever been pub­lished if the writer didn’t know what pub­lisher to sub­mit to. Duotrope …

October 3, 2009 – 1:08 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in writers resource | Comments (0)