bookslut.com - 16 days ago
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I'm as high as Lindberg, high as steam off a cold cow turd. I'm Liza Minnellied, fully-loaded, lit up like Main Street, lit up like the Commonwealth, lit up like the sky, lit up like Times Square, lit up...
litbites.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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litbites.blogspot.com —
Here's the short story I said I was
going to post. I entered it in a YA
Halloween writing contest on Absolute Write. Didn't win anything but it was fun to write. It's a pretty big deviation, stylistically, from what I normally write but it was still fun to experiment. So enjoy and I hope your ...
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Happy Halloween - A "Treater" for you all
therumpus.net - 19 days ago
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therumpus.net —
He knew what he wanted. He wanted some
money. He wanted a piece of ass. He wanted
a big dinner, with all the trimmings. He wanted a bottle of whiskey . A couple of years ago the memoirist and fiction writer Chris Offutt urged me to read Don ...
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On the Importance of Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling
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Chasing Ray —
... paragraph is a different trip to some other time or place. The essay is incredibly personal but through the words of others he makes it that much more reachable for readers -- he brings what he saw and what he did on the flight down to earth so that we may understand it a little bit and also understand him.
Somebody needs to give this guy a book deal; we're talking a 21st century James Salter when it comes to war writing for sure.
Also see Elizabeth Bachner's "Blowing Down Bleecker Street" in the new issue, which has made me rethink my relationship with ...
OMNIVORE: A literary sensation
bookforum.com —
... of The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism by Judith A. Allen. When we read fiction, we also can’t help “reading” the author at the same time. The final cut: Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway are both ...
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Chasing Ray —
... paragraph is a different trip to some other time or place. The essay is incredibly personal but through the words of others he makes it that much more reachable for readers -- he brings what he saw and what he did on the flight down to earth so that we may understand it a little bit and also understand him.
Somebody needs to give this guy a book deal; we're talking a 21st century James Salter when it comes to war writing for sure.
Also see Elizabeth Bachner's "Blowing Down Bleecker Street" in the new issue, which has made me rethink my relationship with ...
What Authors Have To Do With It
The Rumpus.net —
... or white or whether his father had been famous. I didn’t picture him in relation to me. I just read about Louis and Serena and Charlotte and Wilbur and Stuart Little, my friends, probably your friends too. … I thought there was a single god, and that he would look like the puppeteer Geppetto from Walt Disney’s Pinocchio. Yet I knew the difference between real and make-believe. I just hadn’t had to face up to the difference between real and fake, yet.”
— Elizabeth Bachner on judging books and authors and telling fake from make-believe. ...
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
OUPblog —
... we did this week on South Africa, in honor of Place of the Year!
Former OUP publicist Cassie Ammerman makes her Huff Po debut.
Cloud computing in plain English.
I’ve loved Chana Bloch’s translations for years, but here is the chance to read her original poetry.
Vaccine-Finding Map.
Paul Carr debates Jeff Jarvis about so-called citizen journalists.
On how we judge books.
It’s the heart of Fall so here is a fall poem from ...
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