The Lustbader Inheritance

You may have seen this New York Times article about the continuation of Robert Ludlum’s corpus of work by Eric van Lustbader and others. But did you know that Mr. Lustbader will be at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond? No, I think you did not know that, which is why I mention it [...]

A different perspective on Bergman

Who knew? Bergman was not one of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history, an influence on all who followed him — he was tedious and overrated. This is a point of view I simply had not considered. Now I’m going to have to rethink my ideas about James Joyce and and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Maybe what [...]

UVa Med School’s “Hospital Drive” posts first issue

A friend forwarded this announcement: Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am writing to ask your help spreading the word regarding Hospital Drive, a new on-line journal of written and visual work concerned with health and illness.  Our first issue was posted July 30, 2007.  The website is http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu.  We plan to publish two issues a [...]

Great advice

This tip from The Renegade refers to freelancing, but it can be true for fiction writing as well: 8. Rejection: If you’re a freelance writer, you will be rejected. The biggest reason for freelance failure is not an inability to write, report, or market — it’s an inability to get past failure. A rejection doesn’t [...]

And that’s all I have to say about that

No comment. The author and her agent can speak for themselves: The pitch intrigued the publishing world: “Forrest Gump wins Powerball.” And with that, Patricia Wood’s new novel, Lottery, was launched into a bidding war that nabbed the first-time writer a six-figure deal. Lottery (Putnam, 310 pp, $24.95), in bookstores this week, is the story [...]

“Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program…”

Open Culture brings us another gem: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast. Listen to it, and see if you don’t get a chill. At 23, Orson Welles made the cover of Time Magazine for his radio and theater work. This was well before he made the classic Citizen Kane.

We have a winner!

Faithful reader Silvia of Po Moyemu is the winner of my review copy of Water for Elephants. May you read it in good health, Silvia, and please report back here when you’re finished and let us know whether you liked it.

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