Posted on November 26, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
If you’re thinking 2008 might be the year you finally get around to reading Norman Mailer‘s The Executioner’s Song, you might first like to take a look at this list of Eleven Things You Need to Know About Executioner’s Song from Critical Mass. Marc Weingarten rightly focuses much of the list on Larry Schiller, who [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but from what I understand, it follows the book quite closely. Here are two different reviews by two different movie critics, one literal-minded, the other literary-minded: Stephen Hunter: One argument could be made for the movie’s integrity by way of the arcane narrative theories it employs. I don’t buy [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
NYT’s list of 100 Notable Books of the Year. I’ve read 45 books so far this year. I have read not one of the Notables. Via Open Culture
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
It’s always fun to note the searches that bring people to your site. Notable today: “Cockroach.” I get at least one hit from cockroach every day. Very popular. I didn’t realize there were so many Kafka fans out there. “How can i Higher my vocabulary.” How indeed. “Charlottesville snobs.” You’ve come to the right place, [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The rest of the rejection slip story. Kudos to responsive and sensitive editors everywhere! Kudos, I say!
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
You can now see whether your favorite authors are members of LibraryThing. Check this list — I see some familiar names on there, how about you?
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Scott McClellan takes it all back! He didn’t mean that he believed and repeated a lie, he means that he believed and repeated a lie the President believed and repeated. Yeah, that’s the ticket, the President, yeah. From MSNBC: WASHINGTON – Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not believe President Bush lied to him [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Bill Nye’s fiancee tried to poison him! What kind of crazy woman would want to harm harmless and lovable Bill Nye?? Not be confused with harmless and lovable Bill Nighy, the actor. Bill Nye, the Science Guy, remember? Thanks, Cvillain, for bringing this story to light!
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Seven Hundred Penguins. More.
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Last night Mr. Glass and I watched Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game (pardonnez-moi pour ne messing pas avec diacriticals Francais). What a magician Renoir was! At the beginning of the restored version, Renoir gives an introduction to the film in which he tells how The Rules of the Game was received by French [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Great story from Erika at Practicing Writing: Not having received a response regarding a short story submission I mailed out in April, I finally e-mailed the journal’s editor earlier this month (as the guidelines directed me to do) to inquire. And boy, am I glad I did…. Click over the rest of the story, and [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Scott McClellan, Sock Puppet of Destiny. Scott McClellan: They Got Me to Lie Former White House press spokesman Scott McClellan will discuss in his forthcoming spring book WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and What’s Wrong with Washington how top officials got him to mislead the press. [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
All Proust, all the time: Madeleine Moments. From yesterday’s entry, “The Death of Marcel,” Today is the anniversary of Proust’s death in 1922. He was born on July 10, 1871 and so was 51 years old when he died. Not a very long life, but it lasted as long as he wanted it to- until [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Here’s a neat list of online book review sites from Robin Mizell’s Treated and Released. Look for Charlottesville Words under “Opinionated or Personality-Driven.” Hmm, sounds like Robin’s been talking to my therapist…
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Gee whiz, I was hoping for at least college- level (or equivalent life experience):
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