If you must know, Paul Rogov is from Minsk, Belarus, lives in southern California, and will blog for you about war, art, and trauma. But he’s not giving up his biography. Not that it’s important. With narratives populated by men with Saussurean scars, failed fathers, and gawky boy soldiers disfigured by adrenaline, how much could any individual’s biography matter? [...]
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The Third Хорошо: Interview with Paul Rogov
Posted in Editorial, Interviews, The New Хорошо on October 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Second Хорошо: Interview with Alex Pruteanu
Posted in Editorial, Fiction, Interviews, The New Хорошо on September 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Alex Pruteanu is the author of Short Lean Cuts, a novella which, amongst other topics, explores the ever-escalating narratives offered for public consumption. Fittingly, my acquaintance with Pruteanu developed online and progressed via Facebook, the ultimate forum for constructed narratives of life and self. A native of Romania, familiar of Moldova, and American of thirty years, [...]
Хорошо 1.1: Chuvash Folk Songs
Posted in Editorial, Interviews, The New Хорошо on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
English version by Valery Petrovskiy after Russian translation by Alexei Prokopyev. Requiems (2) 1/ Eh, the miserable wide world – There is the only sun, and the only moon. There is at least some of the wide world around! Eh, the miserable other world— There are seven suns, and there are seven moons there, [...]
The First Хорошо: Interview with Valery Petrovskiy
Posted in Editorial, Fiction, Interviews, The New Хорошо on August 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Valery Petrovskiy is the author of numerous short stories—published both in English and in Russian—and IнтимNОе, a collection of short stories in Russian. I made Petrovskiy’s acquaintance online, after reading several of his short stories in English: struck by his symbolic language and compact narratives, I contacted him, and we soon developed a literary friendship. [...]
Please welcome T.M. De Vos and Alan Garvey
Posted in Editorial, News on May 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Uhm, what’s up, Doc? From the start Gloom Cupboard has grown and the moment has come this magazine can’t be run anymore by one person, that’s why I gladly announce two new editors-in-chief: T.M. De Vos and Alan Garvey! Us three will assist you with all general and sometimes more specific compliments, problems, questions and [...]
2010 in review some stats
Posted in Editorial, News on January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 38,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]
Where old and new converge …
Posted in Editorial, News on December 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A new year, a new era … the right moment for some announcements. As regular readers probably noticed, 2010 was a year of the symbiosis of old and new … new editors, old editors shifting place and, not less capable of their task, they brought it to a surprising result. Of course I want to [...]
From the Desk of the Poetry Editor
Posted in Editorial, Poetry on July 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Greetings all. My name is Joseph M. Gant. In addition to being Gloom Cupboard’s new poetry editor, I have been, and still am, Poet in Residence and Poetry Editor for Sex and Murder Magazine as well as a contributor for Outsider Writers Collective. In the coming weeks, I will be going through a large number [...]