Robert Boucheron @rboucheron
Short stories and essays in Alabama Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Fiction International, Literary Heist, Saturday Evening Post. rivannareview.com Charlottesville, Virginia Joined August 2014-
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"Cousin Tony" visits the Clough family in Hapsburg each spring. In his seventies, frail and thin, he tells far-fetched stories and gives the two girls fabulous jewels. He says they were gifts to his grandmother as Queen of Mardi Gras. Story in Issue 11, rivannareview.com
Rivanna Review tapes Episode 23 today. You can stream any CPA-TV episode any time for free from Vimeo.com - Search for Rivanna Review.
Send your story or essay to Rivanna Review by May 1 for Issue 12. Guidelines at rivannareview.com
Rivanna Review, Issue 12 is open to submissions of stories, essays, and art (black and white) for two more weeks. Meanwhile, you can read Issue 11, visit rivannareview.com
"Literary Cafe" by Paul Verlaine sketches the Cafe Voltaire in Paris around 1885, in rivannareview.com
2nd Acts Books sold out Issue 11 of Rivanna Review! A fresh batch is on the way. You can get a copy by mail. Visit rivannareview.com
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Rivanna Review Episode 22 is live on CPA-TV. You can also see all episodes on Vimeo. Here is a link to the latest. vimeo.com/929556492
A review of The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell is in Rivanna Review, by Yvonne Surette, rivannareview.com
"Lovely Cruise" by Kristy Bell in Rivanna Review, on her passion for Jimmy Buffet, and how it mellowed over the years. Here is Buffet in 1980.
In "The Getaway Driver" by Charlie Newman-Johnson, an old woman steals her neighbor's car in upstate New York on a snowy winter morning and drives west on the Thruway. Where is she headed? rivannareview.com
Rivanna Review is a dual format magazine, print and cable TV. We read aloud from stories, essays, and book reviews, with illustrations. You can see all the TV episodes for free at Vimeo.com
Jonathan Russell Clark evokes a vanished bar in Boston, and the odd pleasure of getting drunk with strangers, in his essay "Fireside Chats" in rivannareview.com
"Opening Soon" by K. A. Kenny - after her lover dumps her, Kaylee takes shelter from a downpour in an empty theater, where a rehearsal draws her into a triumphant fantasy. rivannareview.com
Hop in the Ford F-250 with Rob Jiranek for a nerve-wracking drive in West Virginia, in rivannareview.com
Kristy Bell takes you to Waffle House for a bite with anthropologist Ty Matejowsky, in Issue 11 of rivannareview.com
"The Pickup Truck in the Alley" by Francois Bereaud - a high school principal in San Diego tracks down the hit-and-run who totaled her car, in rivannareview.com
A surprising turnout for the Rivanna Review party yesterday, despite pouring rain. Of course, you can always read the magazine or watch the CPA-TV show. rivannareview.com
Party at 2nd Act Books in Charlottesville for Rivanna Review today, 4 to 5 PM. Meet writers in Issue 11, drink some wine, be literary. 2ndactbooks.com
Issue 11 has stories by Francois Bereaud, Rob Jiranek, K. A. Kenny, and Charlie Newman-Johnson, essays by Jonathan Russell Clark and Kristy Bell, and more. rivannareview.com
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Spring is happening in southwest Georgia.
On trying to get my creative writing students to focus on the image, simplify their language, and trust the reader:
Embryos are not children. They are frozen clumps of cells you need a microscope to see. This is about controlling women's choices about how and when to have children. This is about controlling women.
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Sometimes, you’ve just got to face the discordant music and… rewrite the entire paragraph.
YOU GUYS!!!! I finally heard back on the submission I sent Virginia Quarterly Review THREE YEARS ago 🎉🎉🥳🥳🙌🙌😆😆 (It was a no 🤩)
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Just accidentally typed party time for part time and I’m into it
Discovering that it is indeed possible to be more disciplined with my reading, writing, and physical fitness and still manage to waste vast amounts of time raging about what strangers say on Twitter.
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Two days mostly away from writing and the computer. Nice times, but I did chew off my gel manicure.