“One woman follows her gut, going from a small girl in a big city to a big girl in a small town. “Tegan spent a year living and working in the Marshall Islands, and her experience informs this beautiful story about an island’s healer who faces heartache when a plague comes to town. Interviews after the Salt Plague by Tegan Swanson This is Carrie Bradshaw meets Jerry Seinfeld-a story that could only happen in Los Angeles. “An attractive accountant meets a portly comedian in an L.A. Angelina has an unblinking gaze and a resonant style you won’t forget.” The desert is one of the vital characters in this stark story set east of L.A. “A sandy snapshot of a desert-dwelling family’s fated encounter with a rattlesnake. Get out your smartphone and start reading. We asked Susannah Luthi to recommend five stories that are available through Connu right now. We want to keep connecting people with the very best of what’s moving in fiction today.” Connu relocated to San Francisco recently as a new portfolio company under venture capital firm Matter-a position that came with a $60,000 check to develop the app further.įuture plans include a version for tablets, but Luthi says the literary mission will always come first. For a while she was living on friends’ couches between L.A. “They got us through the tough times in the beginning.” At one point, Luthi explains, she was working around the clock on the project and had to give up her day job and her apartment. “We’ve had a lot of support from the literary community,” Luthi says. We want to get away from the mentality that good fiction only exists in literary journals.” They emphasize the curating part of Connu, in which established authors such as Aimee Bender, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Sedaris recommend the work of emerging writers. Luthi and Perian wanted to create a platform to showcase emerging fiction writers, but the danger of becoming yet another voice in an ocean of internet noise forced them to get creative with the format. “We’re past the age of mass media and in the age of infinite media. “I had been thinking about the seismic changes in media,” Luthi says. Luthi came up with the idea for Connu with her partner Niree Perian (who’s now the company’s Editorial Director) while the two were students in USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. “The idea is, to meet people where they are with stories that speak to them,” says Luthi about Connu, which is pronounced “canoe” and means “known” in French. The idea is simple: download Connu onto your iPhone (or access it via web app) and discover short fiction by new literary voices while you’re riding the bus, walking on the treadmill, or waiting in line at Starbucks. I hope you are all knitting away the days in happy anticipation.“People who say they love the app are often people who haven’t read fiction since they had to in school,” says Susannah Luthi, CEO and founder of Connu, a smartphone app launched in November 2013 aiming to serve up emerging literary talent. There is a delay before your comment will appear on the blog. When leaving your comment please click on the submit button only one time. In your comment you can let me know what colorway you would choose for your kit if you'd like, I'd love to hear about it. To enter to win a Kermis kit, please leave one comment on the blog that includes your email address or your Ravelry username so we can get in touch if you win. Cate will work with you on the color and size selections if you win. Thanks to the generosity of Cate Carter of Infinite Twist I am able to offer one Kermis kit in the color of choice to a lucky winner today! The kit is valued starting at $110. All of the kits are gorgeous!Ĭheck out the kits here on Infinite Twist! The other kit colorways are called Sparrow (browns and creams) and Toffee Apple (pinks and purples) and the new Kay's Choice (that's Kay of Mason-Dixon Knitting, of course).
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