Unrelieved Responsibility & Permanent Distraction


The Writing of Danny Goodman

“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form." ~ Raymond Carver

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√ Riverbed, forthcoming in Connotation Press

√ Union Square, forthcoming in Gris-Gris

Angles of Response to Your Angles, or Brief Reflections on Tennis, Sharks, and the Loss of David Foster Wallace (Nonfiction), in Specter Literary Magazine

Based on True Events, in Mixer

It Was the Light, in Metazen

Girl With Crescent Smile, in Pure Slush

Forest Hills, in jmww

Cloisters, in Mixer

Don’t Forget You Love Me, in Used Furniture Review

Greenpoint, in Paper Darts

Somehow There Was More Here, in Found Press

A Map Is Made of Paper and Measured Lines Both, in Ramshackle Review

Violoncello, in TrainWrite

We’re Grownups, After All, in Assisi

Sometimes When I Talk, It’s Like You’re Not Even There, in Up The Staircase Quarterly

Duplex, in Brevity

What About Sushi?, in Wufniks

Late Night, Local Stops Here, in TrainWrite

√ It’s Warm and Sometimes Not on the N Train, in Pure Slush

√ Superman Comes to Dinner, in Ducts