The Great Gatsby – Chapter III

We meet the great man at last, in one of the most memorable chapters of The Great Gatsby — the party scene. The chapter opens with images of machinery and transformation: motor-boats, aquaplanes, electric juicers, and cars, cars, cars. The Gatsby estate is a Circe’s island of transformation where oranges are changed into pulp with [...]

Movies about authors and writing

Saw The Hoax Sunday afternoon with a friend. It’s about Clifford Irving, who came thiiis close to pulling off a scam “autobiography” of Howard Hughes. Richard Gere, Hope Davis, and Marcia Gay Harden were very good in it, but I thought Alfred Molina stole the show as Irving’s researcher-fixer-sidekick, Richard Suskind. On the way home [...]

Emerging Writers Short Story Contest

Perpetual Folly picked this one up: The Emerging Writers Network has announced its second annual short fiction contest. Take a look at the rules; entry fee is $15; prize money is doubled from last year; winner will be published in Storyglossia; “emerging writers” means entrants must have published 3 books or fewer. Heck, I’ve published [...]

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