Doug Hoekstra

Performance Art

When I teach at Watkins, I throw some Lorrie Moore at my students, from “Self-Help.” She’s a brilliant writer; this book is all second person. So, I give them the option of freewriting in second person. It’s pretty difficult, really, and I never tried it myself, until…a friend’s zine was calling for submissions based (loosely) onContinueContinue reading “Performance Art”

Short Songs Long Lives

Casting ourselves back to early 2012, this one appeared in Canopic Jar #25, http://www.canopicpublishing.com/canopicjar/25/doug1.htm (fine zine, check it out) Short Songs, Long Lives (January 2012) She sent me a note about a song she’d just written, no instruments, “simple and sorta county.” “I love my little tune,” she added. Don’t know why, but this remindedContinueContinue reading “Short Songs Long Lives”

Speaking of Hitchcock (Following up on the Last Post)

Speaking of Hitchcock (3/10/2013) Recently, the Becourt Theater held an Alfred Hitchcock fest, 24 films in 23 days from the Master of Suspense. Jude had seen a couple of favorites at home, but he’d never viewed any on the big screen. So, I had to take him. Our busy schedule allowed for “Vertigo,” “Spellbound, “ContinueContinue reading “Speaking of Hitchcock (Following up on the Last Post)”

Stars

Back in Sepember, a great zine called Twenty 20 published a short story of mine titled, “Stars,” in their Magic Realism issue. You can check out the whole issue here: here: http://issuu.com/fourxfour/docs/twenty20_magical_realism . I’m a big Magic Realism fan, so I was chuffed. My tale is on page x (ten). The catch on this journal is youContinueContinue reading “Stars”

Luck Be a Lady

Dear Readers: So, I’m going to use this blog to keep myself writing, short and long, on a regular basis. But, part of it is also about sharing published and unpublished “works” from the catalogue. Eventually I’ll post a piece or two from my past story collection (“Bothering the Coffee Drinkers”) and preview a piece or two from my upcomingContinueContinue reading “Luck Be a Lady”