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October Reading Club Selection: Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy Let’s dig into Tolstoy’s great masterpiece. Discussion begins October 6. If you’re already a registered member, click on the September discussion under “The Reading Club.” If you’re not a registered member of the BookBalloon community — why not? Registration is easy and free. BookBalloon Home.
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The Review Copy Helper "The Review Copy Helper makes it easier for magazine writers and book reviewers to request review copies of books from publishers — and for publishers to get their review copies into the hands of writers who will give them publicity." Quiz: Banned books | Books | guardian.co.uk "You scored 8 out [...]
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bookofjoe: Universal dictionary — English to any of 35 languages, all from one page Joe sez: You could look it up. Orange Crate Art: Couric and Palin and Orwell Did Orwell predict Palin? "You can shirk [the responsibility of thinking] by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They [...]
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Nailgun previews the Virginia Film Festival.
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YouTube – Banned Books Week: I’d Like To Find *BLEEP*. HT: Norton Fiction
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Fictionaut "Fictionaut is a literary community for adventurous readers and writers. …Now Fictionaut brings the possibilities of the social web to literary writing. Part self-selecting magazine, part community network, Fictionaut is a way for readers to discover new voices and for writers to share their art, gain recognition, and connect with their audience and each [...]
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How the States Got Their Shapes – Mark Stein – Very Short List "In How the States Got Their Shapes, Mark Stein — a playwright and screenwriter — has undertaken a deceptively simple task: to explain how the 50 states acquired their present shape." Voting America – University of Richmond – Very Short List "Brought [...]
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This is, like, my third-favorite Hamlet ever: pages turned: Cat Head Theatre Presents Hamlet.
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The Nested Float » Quotes » Writing Into Your Arc 'The inspiration you need to take away from this is the idea that every scene matters to some arc. Even the one minute with the drunk furniture assembly. Whether your given “scene” is in a screenplay, or an Excel spreadsheet, or the Tweet that you’re [...]
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Hey, I know this guy! And I think he’s got a terrific idea — a killer app for document critique: Cutting through the spin of political campaigns can make one’s head spin, but thanks to Albemarle resident Dan Doernberg, founder of Fairness.com, voters across the country will have a new tool just in time for [...]
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Origami artists use a little elbow crease – MIT News Office "The winning entries from the fourth annual juried Student Origami Competition." Click on the slideshow. Times Higher Education – cf. ibid., op. cit., MLA, APA et al. "…standards of documentation – undertaken for six purposes: acknowledgement; attribution; tracing; validation; protection against accusations of misconduct; [...]
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Mark Powell’s War on Error, page 1 – News – Seattle Weekly "Mark Powell finds mistakes everywhere he looks. National monuments, scholarly texts, museums, The Washington Post, The New York Times: All have drawn the attention of Powell's rabid, error-spotting eye. Powell will leave you seven-minute voicemails about these errors. When you call him back, [...]
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Time to Write: Are you reaching your writing goals? "In my Brainstorm e-bulletin I mentioned that we’re nearing the final quarter of the year—a good time to take stock of how you’re doing with any writing goals you set for yourself at the start of the year. Better to do it now and adjust your [...]
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Judge dismisses libel suit against John Grisham – Yahoo! News "OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder." Via Publishers Marketplace Perpetual Folly: Book Store Boom Three [...]
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