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My favorite photography site, Shutterglass, (not that I’m biased) features a new gallery: Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site, 90 miles SW of Phoenix. What were those paleolithic petroglyphers up to, I wonder? Enjoy the photos, and leave your comments if so moved.
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An intriguing item in this week’s C-ville Weekly: Better Than Television presents State of Siege. The 1972 film is based on the true events surrounding the Tupamaros guerilla movement’s kidnapping of an alleged American torturer in Uruguay in 1970. Roadkill Book Depot, 1302 Avon St. Roadkill Book Depot? Anyone know what that is? I must [...]
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Slate also has an interesting slide show on the history of the church sign — you know, those lighted marquee signs (“street pulpits“) that say “Seven days without prayer make one weak,” and so forth. Would you believe these signs originated in embroidered samplers? Nah, me neither, but it’s a thought. While you’re there, click [...]
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Lovely…. …and amazing: (HT: My friend Lois)
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Saw a full-page ad for the Festival of the Photograph in the new Aperture magazine. It’s coming right up — June 7-9.
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From Storyglossia: The Storyglossia Fiction Prize 2007 Contest offers $1000 and publication in Issue 23, October 2007 of Storyglossia to the winning story. All styles, subject matter, and forms of short stories in the literary fiction genre are welcome. Please submit only original and previously unpublished fiction up to 7500 words. Simultaneous submissions are accepted [...]
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Just a quick link to How to Write a Short Story at Perpetual Folly. I always get stuck on step #4, “Finish writing.” And #6, “Write the final draft.” Final draft? What’s that?
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Update: Mediabistro explains it this way: Media Predict is soliciting book proposals from agents and the public, and posting pages of them on the site. Traders, who are given $5,000 in fantasy cash, can buy shares based on their guess about whether a particular book proposal is likely to get a deal, or whether S&S [...]
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Roy Peter Clark gives some tips on endings in his Writing Tools column this week. Don’t click if you don’t already know the endings to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Grapes of Wrath, or The Great Gatsby!
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Poking around on the Glimmer Train site, I find a sterner than usual warning about simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are not okay, I’m sorry, especially in competitions. (It breaks our hearts to fall for a story we can’t publish.) I have heard writers occasionally complain that it breaks their hearts to submit stories and not [...]
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Do you share David McKie’s obsession? I do, to the point that I had to pause Bush’s Brain so I could zoom in on a frame in order to read the titles on a stack of books sitting next to one of the interviewees.
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