Charlottesville Words

• When Literary and Prosecutorial License Collide – New York Times
  …“much the same entertainment value you get from watching monkeys fling scat at one another in a zoo.” HT: Dan!
• Ralph Ellison, Truman Capote, and the difference between writer’s block and procrastination. – By Jessica Winter – Slate Magazine
  “Ellison and Capote were both the beneficiaries and the sufferers of perfectionism … which just happens to be a syndrome that correlates with both procrastination and writer’s block.”
• The Blog of Wistar Watts Murray » 10 tips for dating a writer
  2. Would you interrupt a supercomputer when it’s cracking a code? Would you interrupt a jumbo jet when it’s refueling? Then don’t interrupt a writer when she or he is napping.
• 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library | The Art of Manliness
  “From a seemingly infinite list of books of anecdotal or literal merit, we have narrowed down the top 100 books that have shaped the lives of individual men while also helping define broader cultural ideas of what it means to be a man.”
• cvilleMUSE » Relaunch of Livearts.org
  “Live Arts just did a major redesign of their website….”
• The New York Review of Magazines

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