Monday, September 5, 2011

Literature and math--a flash fiction piece from jmww

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor were an equation? If you're answer is no, you're not alone because neither have I.

If you're answer is yes, you're not alone either. Gabriel Blackwell explores this interesting and somewhat unlikely scenario in his flash fiction piece, "Solve for x, where x is an integer such that x>0" in the online literary journal jmww. I think that this piece shows the possibilities that can open up for writers when we think of literature in terms of other, sometimes unlikely, forms.

Check out this piece. Read, and enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. Do you think this is BS or makes sense? I do like math, or at least I did in my young smart days, but it made my head hurt (or maybe that was the comp papers). SB

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  2. I don't know. I just liked how it made me think. Did I totally understand it all? I'm not sure, but it did kind of make me think about the story and the ways that writers can interact with literature. --Lori

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