Terence Kuch has published fiction, humor, poetry, and non-fiction in numerous periodicals, including
Commonweal
Dissent
Dust
Grecourt Review
Journal of Irreproducible Results
Mademoiselle
New York magazine
North American Review
Poetry Motel
Slow Trains
The Realist
Thema
Timber Creek Review
Washington Post Book World
Worm-Runner’s Digest
with brief items and comment appearing in Computerworld, Dallas Morning News, New Yorker, Washington Post editorial page, and Science (AAAS), among others. His work has been anthologized in commercially published hardbacks from Random House and McGraw-Hill.
He has read his poetry and prose at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the International Monetary Fund Visitors’ Center, GRACE (Greater Reston Virginia Arts Center), The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary) Theatre in Dallas, and elsewhere, and has survived interviews by The New York Times and USA Today.
Just checking your explanation about how to use an -em dash in interrupted dialogue — thanks for the help! As for your advice about adding space around an em dash to help readers, I wanted to say that I was taught somewhere along the line (either in a desktop publishing or a graphic design course) that spaces shouldn’t be used when inserting the special symbol available in word processing programs. The only time spaces should be added are when the symbol is unavailable and the writer has to substitute two hyphens.
Printed books don’t use spacing before or after dashes, or before ellipses…. That I do is a matter of readability and aesthetics, with no particular authority to back me up.
Wow! So excited to peruse your prolific works!
i have been obsessively facebooking your content!