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Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Seven Deadly Sins (VIDEO)

First Posted: 04/22/11 10:39 AM ET Updated: 06/22/11 06:12 AM ET

Narrative Magazine: Apathetic sex, the sloth of creative obsession, a poetic envy of Canada--in the video recorded during Narrative Magazine's event at San Francisco's Litquake festival, the Seven Deadly Sins receive a truly contemporary treatment by a group of generous and passionate writers. Charlie Haas gives us a character quietly affected by a tendency toward meaningless violence, Tom Barbash shows an adolescent struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother, Melanie Gideon probes the layers of family and cultural traditions, Matthew Zapruder inquires into the death of iambic pentameter and today's unemployment rates, and in her story Kara Levy creates a twisted sexual relationship that cinches all seven sins together into a single piece.

Introduction by Carol Edgarian:

Kara Levy reading from "Transplant":

Charlie Haas reading from "The Enthusiast":

Tom Barbash reading from "The Women":

Melanie Gideon reading "My Ah-ha Moment":

Matthew Zapruder reading poetry selections:

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Narrative Magazine: Apathetic sex, the sloth of creative obsession, a poetic envy of Canada--in the video recorded during Narrative Magazine's event at San Francisco's Litquake festival, the Seven Dea...
Narrative Magazine: Apathetic sex, the sloth of creative obsession, a poetic envy of Canada--in the video recorded during Narrative Magazine's event at San Francisco's Litquake festival, the Seven Dea...
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Soulfest
Going Far Means Returning (Lao Tzu)
06:49 PM on 04/22/2011
I don't understand how writers with MFA's cannot speak for one minute without an onslaught of "um, uh, um."

They need to retake Communication 101, public speaking, or stick to writing.
MyrtleJune
STOP negotiating! End the American hostage crisis!
02:27 PM on 04/22/2011
So I have to watch all these tubes to get the 7 deadly sins? Huh?

Lacks clarity..... now there's 8.
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LearnMe
Native NY-er, father of 2, husband to 1. I teach
11:20 AM on 04/22/2011
Come on people, I'm a bit disappointed, this is sin we're talking about here: spice it up! www.learnmeproject.com
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Lev Raphael
Author of "Book Lust!"
10:13 AM on 04/22/2011
When I saw the headline, I thought it would be something more like

Sloth: not writing even when you're under deadline
Envy: bitching about a friend's six-figure advance
Greed: Stealing an idea
Despair: checking your amazon sales rank every hour
Lust: Wanting more than one Pulitzer
Wrath: Firing your agent for telling you the truth
Pride: Resisting an editor's sound advice
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Skyhawk
When I write one it'll appear here.
07:34 PM on 04/24/2011
Fanned. You've summed it up quite nicely.