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3QR LIVE ON FRIDAY. The countdown begins. A few notes from authors: “Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe would have been perfect for a 3QR table of contents–if 3QR had existed when he wrote it.” – Mary Jo Salter. “Poetry, for me, is the most honest form of lying. It operates in the realm of three-quarters true.” –Elizabeth […]
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Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson, Editor, The Three Quarter Review, is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars and Advanced Academic Programs, a nonfiction essayist, and the author of Literature on Deadline (Celumbra/Pacific Isle 2007). Her literary essays have appeared in print or online at the literary journal, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Connecticut Review, Urbanite, and Utne Reader, as […]
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The Three Quarter Review: Poetry & Prose > 75 percent True is now accepting submissions for our next annual issue. Prose up to 3,000 words. Up to three poems. Submissions must be at least 75 percent factual. Short pieces welcome. Typed, prose double-spaced. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Be sure to include your email address.We review […]
THREE POEMS by Marilyn L. Taylor
On Learning, Late in Life, that Your Mother Was a Jew Methuselah something. Somethingsomething Ezekiel. —Albert Goldbarth So that explains it, you say to yourself. And for one split second, you confront the mirror like a Gestapo operative— narrow-eyed, looking for the telltale hint, the giveaway (jawline, profile, eyebrow)— something visible […]
3QR Author Note: STEPHEN DIXON
Some fiction I take almost whole from my life, some fiction I take almost whole from my imagination. My imagination is part of my life, of course, but the unlived part of it. So: whatever inspires a piece of fiction can come moments after I’ve finished experiencing it or can suddenly arise intact from my […]
3QR Author Bios
Jessica Anya Blau is the author of the highly praised novel, Drinking Closer to Home. Target stores featured Drinking Closer to Home in their Breakout Author series. Blau’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was selected as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, The New York Post and New York Magazine. […]
TWO ARNIE STORIES by Philip Sultz
SPAGHETTI RUN I’m living in Buffalo, going to art school. Arnie calls. He says, you ever been to New York? I tell him, not yet. He says I’m going tomorrow, do you want to go? I say sure. He picks me up and drives all night. We hit a few rest stops, and then on […]
SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD by Jennifer Holden Ward
My plane touched down late. I’d spent most of the flight scouring Lonely Planet, searching for Hostel Bekai in Costa Rica where I was to meet Nick, a pierced, truck-driving Englishman I’d met backpacking in Australia in 1999. We’d traveled together briefly Down Under, mostly short jaunts to scenic places or bus trips to the […]
DISSONANCE by Dario DiBattista
The bassist finds the pulse of the music and manages it like a pacemaker. I’ve seen him before—it seems his innate ability to stoke the groove and own it has made him a staple in whatever music scene exists in this Connecticut college town. The drummer is crisp and poppy in his performance. With his […]
3QR Author Note: CHARLES TALKOFF
Finding Fiction out of Fact: I do not remember where I read the line (or who said it though doubtless it was a smart writer of one kind or another) but apparently someone figured out you should be able to make an Odyssey out of your daily newspaper. True enough, I think, only I would […]
