Winn Collier’s Holy Curiosity at New Dominion Bookshop

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Reposted from Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Winn Collier read from his latest book, Holy Curiosity, on Thursday, October 16, 2008, at the New Dominion Bookshop in downtown Charlottesville. In this, Collier’s third book, he wrestles with the intriguing, disturbing questions asked by Jesus in the Gospels. Collier read from Holy Curiosity and took questions from the [...]

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Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson on the war abroad and at home

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

From Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Award-winning photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson showed images from his coverage of the Iraq War and described the war’s toll on the homefront to a meeting of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on October 10, 2008. This presentation was jointly sponsored by the Jefferson Society and the Virginia Quarterly Review to mark [...]

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It’s better to burn slowly than blaze away

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

I’m agreeing with GalleyCat — this New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell is “one of the best pieces about the realities of the writer’s life.”  Meaning, it’s one of the few I’ve read that didn’t leave me with a knot in the pit of my stomach. If you’re a writer of a … certain age [...]

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links for 2008-10-17

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Mygazines Folds – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com "Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and Forbes, among others—had sued Mygazines.com, which lists its address as a post office box on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and its [...]

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But what about the ladies?

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Amy Mercer at The Writer Mama calls attention today to an article from Bitch Magazine that calls for women to own their ambition for their writing careers, to stop apologizing for their writing or for being writers, and to stop accepting dismissive excuses for being overlooked. The author of the article, Anna Clark, cites an [...]

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