Watched Star Wars episode VII on Netflix. They should stop making more of those. They…
Author: vrflash
Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. An engineer by training, he currently works as a medical interpreter. His fiction has appeared in Catapult, Witness, World Literature Today, Mississippi Review, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney’s, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel “My Life at First Try,” published by Counterpoint, and co-editor of immigration-themed anthologies published by Ooligan Press, Persea, and the University of Chester (UK). One of his short story collections from Livingstone Press received a starred review at Kirkus and another is currently a finalist of Forward Indies 2022 Award.
On Truman Capote
“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.” ― Truman Capote But you…
What is a mensch?
What is a mensch? Mensch (Yiddish) is a person who uses a question mark at…
War and Peace, a new adaptation
A very faithful adaptation. The actors are practically 19th century Russians. Pierre Bezukhov is an…
Love is all you need
Love is all you need, a short movie. This story is multi-dimensional; bullying is only…
A novel-in-stories
Can each chapter in a novel-in-stories, like “My Life at First Try,” stand alone? Like…