Charlotte Lit’s Blog

Welcome to Charlotte Lit’s literary arts blog. What you’ll find here: craft essays, book reviews, previews of literary arts events, and anything else that catches our attention.

Lisa Zerkle

Five Questions for 4X4CLT Featured Writer Beth Ann Fennelly

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How did your foray into micro-memoir evolve—did these pieces begin as prose poems or were they their own specific beast from the start? Before I published this book, my husband and I wrote a collaborative novel. Called The Tilted World (HarperCollins, 2013), it was set in the flood of the Mississippi River in 1927, and […]

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Lisa Rubenson

Interview: 4X4CLT Artist Scott Partridge

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Artist Scott Partridge and I sit at Amélie’s getting acquainted. A nearby print of the Mona Lisa, retrofitted with mirrored sunglasses, reflects a Kardashian self-awareness that could be straight out of da Vinci’s Instagram. Though not one of Scott’s pieces, it seems an appropriate backdrop for our conversation. I learn that he once created a […]

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Lisa Zerkle

Review: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling

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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs Beth Ann Fennelly W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 978-0-393-60947-9 111 pages | Memoir | $22.95 Short forms are all the rage, lately, with the profusion of prose poems and flash fiction staking (small) claims on the pages of literary journals. Add to this genre-fluidity the “micro-memoir,” another short form employed virtuosically by […]

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