Return to Standard Time by L.S.Bassen
L.S. Bassen has read that Earth will be fried by the Sun in fewer billion years than Bill Gates has spondoolicks, which puts into perspective her thoughts about age. She was a finalist in 2011 for the Flannery O’Connor Award and toils as a Fiction Editor for Prick of the Spindle. She was an original reader for Electric Literature and won the 2009 APP Drama Prize for THE END OF SHAKESPEARE & CO, a comedy about the closing of a NYC bookstore. Ditto a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship for a novel to be published in 2014 (Typhoon Media) about the successful assassination of Hitler. Her first play was published by http://www.samuelfrench.com/author/1158/lois-shapley-bassen. She writes book reviews and interviews for zines like Small Beer Press, The Brooklyner, The Rumpus. Apparently, she echoes Hamlet’s antic, “Words, words, words!” We know how well that worked out for him.
L.S. misses hometown NYC and LI environs now that she had expatriated with many-decade Husband (who always emphasizes, “in a row!”) to RI to be near their family. RI is an inspiration; its history justifies its tiny existence. She loves life near the River where the Industrial Revolution began in the US (native Sneechteconnet renamed the Blackstone).
You can hear her read two poems at http://www.2river.org/2RView/15_3/poems/bassen.html and a short story at http://brooklyner.org/2011/l-s-bassen-reads-time-and-tide/.
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I love this! Stopped me from my usual grousing about the time change.
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I am tremulous with admiration and appreciation and have been for one half
century.
Ellis Ratner
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