Paul Strohm and the Art of the 100 Word Story
Paul Strohm, former Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, has written quite a few scholarly books, but he’s recently ventured into writing a memoir of 100 100 word stories. His stories have appeared in Eleven Eleven and served as the flash point for this...
Full-Length Mirror
By Paul StrohmClaire has been wanting a full-length mirror in our New York apartment. How come, I want to know. You can look at your top half in the bathroom and you see your feet any time in the shoestore.
Book Review: 420 Characters
By Paul StrohmFor those who didn't know his primary work, this volume's accompanying illustrations reveal Lou Beach as a collage-maker and graphic surrealist, an accomplished maestro of dream-like juxtapositions and mixed surface-depth relations.
Memoir as Collage: The Morphing, Absurd Self
Paul Strohm has taken a different approach to memoir. Instead of writing the confessional tell-all in a conventional narrative, he spins the tale of his life through 100 100-word stories.
Three Stories from Sportin’ Jack: The Divorce Years
By Paul StrohmThe affair ended both our marriages, but then she married some totally other guy. She liked the rigor and formality of his approach.
My Former Dog
By Paul StrohmMy former dog reproached me in a dream. She was named Katrina, a spayed dachshund with a fat tummy. I had wanted a beagle and my parents told me a dachshund was a beagle with shorter legs.
Sister’s Underwear Drawer
By Paul StrohmAt the committee meeting, someone suggested sneaking a look at an internal candidate’s teaching evaluations. No way, I said. Why not, they asked.
Uncle Earl
By Paul StrohmMy uncle Earl was a red-complected, hoarse-voiced, high-degree mason, a terror to my gentle Aunt Pauline in his wintertime alcoholic backslidings.
Sportin’ Jack: A Guarded, Laconic Jigsaw Puzzle of Memory
By Alex ZwerdlingA hundred hundred-worders? I was expecting something less ambitious in such a tightly restricted form.
