April 2011
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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)
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“I’ll buy you a pack of gum and show you how to chew it.”
– David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
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Peter Travers DEMOLISHES the new Atlas Shrugged... →
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David Foster Wallace (Age 7-9) vs. Dragnet...
“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!
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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.
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Super sad article about Karen Green and DFW. →
