"The Immensity of Existing Things" in 'MudRoom'
A city of clouds, of sloping streets. A fortified castle at the meeting of two rivers. A valley among wooded hills. Each day as the sun...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jun 25
- 1 min
"The Signifiers of Our Dissolution" in The Militant Grammarian
I'm happy to have my experimental flash fiction story "The Signifiers of Our Dissolution" published by a great new journal: The Militant...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Dec 18, 2021
- 1 min
A Pushcart Nomination!
I'm honored to have been nominated by Slippery Elm for a Pushcart Prize, for my short story "The New City." This is my third nomination...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
"This Is Not a Story" in 'Tilted House Review'
"This Is Not a Story" is not a story. Or is it? Find out here.
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Erik Harper Klass
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
"The New City" in 'Slippery Elm'
I'm happy to announce that my short story "The New City" has just come out in Slippery Elm. The new city exists in a liminal place,...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
"The Hand Remembers" in 'Tiny Molecules'
I'm happy to say that one of my flash fiction stories was just published in Tiny Molecules. I wrote "The Hand Remembers" last summer, in...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min
"The Eternal Bliss of Being an Object Among Objects"
I'm happy to announce that a short—I mean really short—story of mine was accepted to Complete Sentence (a magazine of single-sentence...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Dec 20, 2020
- 5 min
The Grammar Rule Only Copyeditors Know
This essay is 100% apolitical. I promise. (It’s about hyphens and dashes.) (This post was originally published, in slightly different...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
The Single Biggest Mistake Writers Make When Submitting to Literary Magazines
I just published the above-titled article at a lovely site called Inspired Writer. You can check it out here.
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Erik Harper Klass
- Aug 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Safest Book Store in America
My wife and I recently visited Ojai, California, kind of a test to see if vacations are still possible these days. We decided to keep...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jul 4, 2020
- 1 min
"Homecoming" in Expanded Field
I'm happy to announce that one of my stories was just published in an Amsterdam journal called Expanded Field. In "Homecoming," a man...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jun 20, 2020
- 1 min
History and Class Consciousness in the Time of Coronavirus (An Essay on Libraries)
I am writing an endless novel. It is one of those novels that requires a—let us say—extravagant use of my local libraries.
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Erik Harper Klass
- Feb 17, 2020
- 2 min
About Time
I am writing this post on February 17, 2020. Or, I could say, I am writing this post on 17 February 2020. Between the two datal formats...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jan 9, 2020
- 3 min
Miracle at a Thrift Store in the San Jacinto Mountains
Actually two miracles. Two thrift stores....
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Erik Harper Klass
- Jul 14, 2019
- 2 min
A defense of the Use of Stacks on a Bookshelf
The obvious use of a vertical stack of books as a bookend on an open bookshelf (that is, open on the sides), in place of, for example, a...
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Erik Harper Klass
- Dec 1, 2018
- 1 min
A Brief Hiatus
On page 234 of Middlemarch (Penguin Books, 2003) I came across the word aërial ("... an immeasurable depth of aërial perspective"). Why...
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