Maureen Langloss

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Love in the Time of Brad Pitt’s First Marriage

March 5, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

When I lived in Santiago in my twenties, my roommate and I kept seeing a guy in our neighborhood who looked just like Brad Pitt. OK, maybe just a little bit like Brad Pitt. It was more about his attitude than his eyes. He had a cool leather jacket and slick (kind of greasy) hair … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Robins, Short Fiction, short story, The Journal

Interview with Ivelisse Rodriguez

February 15, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

I am in awe of the impact Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short-story collection Love War Stories had on me as a reader. Ivelisse got me laughing and crying and spitting mad. She also had me wanting to study her text for clues, connections, and themes like it was a university seminar. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories

Mother Heart

January 7, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

Presenting: Mother Heart, a brand new work of art by the talented Robert James Russell. I have fallen in love with Robert's quirky, attention-grabbing drawings and water colors. I am especially drawn to his use of color and to how he combines humor with pathos, humanity with wild … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: Art, Drawings, Mother Heart, Osprey, Robert James Russell

Top Ten Bits & Pieces of Ice

January 1, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

I was touched when Little Fiction asked me to write a 2018 top-ten list for their annual New Year's tradition. But I was also stumped. What to write? As I concentrated more on the task, images of ice kept popping into my head. Icebergs, blocks of ice, icicles. I kept shaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay Tagged With: Annie Dillard, Antarctica, Attaboy, cocktails, Dawn Wall, figure skating, Hannah Tinti, ice, Jakobshavn Glacier, Leni Zumas, Maria Semple, Red Clocks, Stephanie Burt, Stephanie Vaughn, Zaria Forman

The Vibration Before the Sound

November 14, 2018 By Maureen Langloss

My story, The Vibration Before the Sound, was published this month in Little Fiction's flash issue alongside some brilliant pieces by Lori Sambol Brody, Kate Gehan, DeMisty Bellinger, Anna Vangala Jones, and many more. I hope you get a chance to read the whole issue. As usual, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: flash fiction, Little Fiction, Short Fiction

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Grassy area of blithe wood on the Bard College Campus overlooking the Hudson River with a single adirondack chair in the distance and blue sky

Assembling Rabbit Hill

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper that we were still working […]

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A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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