The Unshakable Kayfabe of Tommy Rage

Third-Way Fiction

Karl and I are pleased to give New Pop Lit readers a special story today: The Unshakable Kayfabe of Tommy Rage, by Alaska-based writer Andrea Gregovich.

Ms Gregovich’s sharp story about amateur-wrestling fandom will brighten your Post-Labor-Day week and inject a healthy dose of pop lit into your Wednesday. Enjoy!

That was the night the heat war between Danny and Sergeant Smackdown culminated in a knockout barb from Smackdown. As Danny stood at the base of the ring, barking wicked old school chants through his hands in the form of a megaphone, Smackdown issued his knockout barb: “I should buy you a saddle for Christmas so you can ride my dick.” The poetics of the thing rendered us all speechless, blinking and mouths agape for a moment on the white plastic patio chairs as Smackdown stood in the ring in his tattered camo pants, basking in the yellowish glow of the crappy spotlights they had rigged up in there and the brilliance of the thing he’d said against the background of his death metal entrance music.

Creating the New

Opinion

At New Pop Lit we’re devoted to finding the next big thing in literature. We want to nurture writers who are taking their art to the public in a way that has never been done before.

To that end, we challenge our readers and contributors to create the new. What does that look like? Editor Karl Wenclas discusses Creating the New in our latest essay on the Opinion page… tell us what you think! Send us your new pop lit!

Attitude En Pointe

Announcement

Happy Saturday, New Pop Lit’ers!

Our offering today: Christina Murphy, winner of the 2011 Andre Dubus Award for Short Fiction, places her work Attitude En Pointe up for your criticism! Today’s ‘Rate This Story’ takes on the elegance of ballet and the wisdom of an old-souled feline… Thank you, Christina!

Attitude En Pointe, along with our previous ‘Rate This Story’ feature, how a story fails by Lance Manion, can be found at our Coffeehouse. All polls will remain open… let us hear from you!

Harry Pinker Does It Again!

Announcement

Huzzah! New Pop Lit is officially open TODAY!!

Starting today we will publish one new story or author interview a week, punctuated with editorials, gossip, debates, fine art, reader feedback… a cornucopia of smart entertainment!

Our celebratory story is by Memphis-based novelist Corey Mesler and is titled Harry Pinker Does It Again:

Harry Pinker, not normally a man given to obsessions, blamed his wife Jean for the one which largely destroyed him. Harry was an unsuccessful writer, who, thanks to his wife’s well-paying job as an OB-GYN, was able to spend every day at home, alone, writing. He had published a novel when he was younger. It was remaindered before he could get to the mailbox with his second manuscript. Since then, one slim volume of stories from After Howl Press.

But that is not all!

Check out the Coffee House for the first of our ‘Rate This Story’ surveys!

Lance Manion, a veteran author and blogger, has offered his short how a story fails for your critique. This story is waiting for your feedback now! Let us know what you think– you can also see how other readers rated the story and leave comments/questions.

Enjoy!

Classic Pop

Classic Pop

Hello, New Pop Lit Readers!

We’re getting geared up for our Aug 16th launch date and thought a taste of classic pop lit would tide folks over.

Karl and I have chosen Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Sire de Maletroit’s Door for your enjoyment. A dark story set during the Hundred Years’ War, it’s a great example of writing from storytelling’s golden age…

Denis de Beaulieu was not yet two-and-twenty, but he counted himself a grown man, and a very accomplished cavalier into the bargain. Lads were early formed in that rough, warfaring epoch; and when one has been in a pitched battle and a dozen raids, has killed one’s man in an honorable fashion, and knows a thing or two of strategy and mankind, a certain swagger in the gait is surely to be pardoned.

Read more here!

Official Launch Date August 16th!

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Greetings, fans of popular literature!

We hope you’re enjoying our first two stories, they are a taste of what’s to come… our official launch date is August 16th, just a couple weeks away.

We will kick things off with a handful of new stories, author interviews and lots from Karl and me about New Pop Lit: what it is; what it brings to readers; and how the movement can help authors. Watch this space!

Happy Reading,

Andrea + Karl.

Matt Murphy Private Eye

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Our first offering at New Pop Lit is here!

Matt Murphy is a private eye. When Matt investigates, cases get solved. Or shit gets real ugly. On good days he manages both.

Today he’s just got himself locked in a room by someone who shut the door behind him while he was exploring.  It’s a panic room so no windows… and the door is bullet proof.

Read the rest of Ian Lahey’s Matt Murphy Private Eye here.

Welcome

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You’ve found the home of new and popular literature. You can rely on us to bring smart entertainment to your computer, digital reader or phone.

A selection of our most recent stories is available through the ‘Featured Stories’ link above.

Check back often to see what’s new.

Thanks for dropping by!

Karl & Andrea