He forgot to mention Savonarola

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

You knew it would happen eventually. Today Joseph Skibell equates cutting newspaper book review sections with Nazi book-burning at Critical Mass. The Nazis knew how important books were to a free and liberal society – and that’s why they burned them. The Soviets as well. Not only were books suppressed in Stalinist Russia, but writers [...]

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The Great Gatsby — Chapter VI

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Oh dear. I didn’t finish The Great Gatsby by April 30. That’s okay. There’s no expiration date on Gatsby. The book, I mean — Gatsby himself is about to expire, of course: Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities upon his past, had increased all summer [...]

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10 Mistakes Writers Don’t See

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

A classic column from Pat Holt of Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do). The list also could be called, “10 COMMON PROBLEMS THAT DISMISS YOU AS AN AMATEUR,” because these mistakes are obvious to literary agents and editors, who may start wording their decline letter by page [...]

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