Confusing Guildlines from Prairie Schooner

"We prefer that fiction manuscripts be at least 150 pages long and poetry manuscripts at least 50 pages long. Stories and poems previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion. Novels are not considered; one novella along with stories will be considered (please don't send single novellas or a collection of novellas)"

Does this mean they want something over 150 pages that isn't a novel or a novella and that they're just asking for a short story that isn't SO short but is long enough not to be a novel or a novella but could be a novella (but not a collection of novellas...people write those?) so long as it has a collection of short stories (but not a collection of a collection) attached somewhere? Or somehow ? Or do they mean to say that previously published manuscripts which are novels or novellas are not considered while unpublished anything in particular is fine so long as it's at least 150 pages?

Or is it early? Or should I drink more coffee before going online?

Happy New Moon Holidays

Groop Holiday Party

Here we are. Where are you?

Books exchanged:

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados (given by Marika, received by Matt)

L'Amante Anglaise by Marguerite Duras (given by Jen, received by Jeremy)

Steppenwolfe by Herman Hesse and Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (given by Nick, received by Marika)

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell (given by Matt, received by Nick)

The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon and The Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif Shafak (given by Ella, received by Jen)

The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen (given by Jen, received by Marika, stolen by Ella)

As you can see, there was only one steal. Goes back to a groop evening long ago when Nick made one of his bookstore employees, the one with the accent, read the first page, over speakerphone.

Ella had to have it.

By the way, did you know that some people like having sex? Yeah. You missed out.

New Episode of AJ Episodes posted

Don't forget to read the latest entry in my ongoing serialized story of passion, betrayal, international intrigue and 'extreme vacation' travel. The tale advances a scintillating 250 words this month into the town of Belen, Nicaragua where I installed a basketball hoop as part of a 'sister cities' project when I was in high school.

Gawk This

From an interesting New York Magazine piece on the Gawker site and its raging bloggers:

Gould published a book last spring, and wasn’t sure if she should write another. “At the end of the day, your ideas in a book have less impact than if you had summed them up in two paragraphs on the most widely read blog at the most-read time of the day, so why’d you spend two years on it?”
And for fun, here is Emily Gould getting served by of all people, Jimmy Kimmel, whom I find dispiriting in every way. Here tho, he does the Lord's work. Just watch her face in action.