April 2011
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Please Get With It! Have A Clue! Submit To Dragnet... →
We want your stories by May 1. More details HERE. Hello Potential Contributors! Thanks for taking an interest in Dragnet Magazine. Here at Dragnet we, as a rule, believe very few things. Some of these things are: 1) That literary fiction (which is all we publish) should be as fun as it is well made. Although we’re not strictly a humour magazine, as frivolous people we enjoy work with a sense...
Apr 27th
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Listen to Dragnet Co-Editor Jeremy Read Part of a...
Listen to Dragnet co-editor Jeremy read an excerpt from The Delicious Fields, published by Apt 9 Press, at the launch at Raw Sugar Café in Ottawa last weekend. Edit: Also includes Cameron Anstee’s flattering introduction and Jeremy’s awkward banter.
Apr 23rd
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“As we live by the Muses, ‘tis but gratitude in us to encourage poetical...”
– John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Introduction.
Apr 22nd
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“Its features seemed suggestions only. It had roughly as much face as a whale...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (on a character’s audit group manager’s infant)
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
“I’ll buy you a pack of gum and show you how to chew it.”
– David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
Peter Travers DEMOLISHES the new Atlas Shrugged... →
Apr 18th
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David Foster Wallace (Age 7-9) vs. Dragnet...
Apr 18th
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“To make serious business of the playthings of childhood, is as absurd as for a...”
– Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry Last one, I promise. Minor romantic period literary figures with office jobs FTW!
Apr 17th
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“Mistaking the prominent novelty for the all-important totality, [they] seem to...”
– Thomas Love Peacock The Four Ages of Poetry TLP sez: Abandon poetry and do something useful with your lives! Read Nightmare Abbey, it’s really fantastic.
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
Super sad article about Karen Green and DFW. →
Apr 11th
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The Close-minded Post-Structuturalist: Music...
“Firstly both rhythm and tone are obviously capitalist constructs. Secondly if you haven’t discovered and then rejected the magic of the pentatonic scale already you don’t even belong in this conversation.”
Apr 10th
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“Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.”
– John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
Apr 7th
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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See guys, he wasn’t all opium and sadness!
Apr 6th
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Apr 4th
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