Charlottesville Words

• Novelist Tim O'Brien Reflects on the 20th Anniversary of The Things They Carried – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
  "I try to preach to students tenacity and stubbornness–to be a kind of mule walking up the mountain, to keep plodding. Inspiration is important, but you're not going to get it on a bowling alley or on a golf course or all the other things you could be doing. If you're not sitting there inspiration is simply going to pass."

  I can be a mule. I can plod!

• Internet Review of Books: FORMS OF INTERCESSION by Jayne Pupek
  "Pupek’s poems never fail to move, to provoke, to inquire."

  Jayne Pupek is a poet from Richmond, Virginia. Nice review!

• Six Questions For Carter Jefferson, The Internet Review of Books
  Six Questions For Carter Jefferson, The Internet Review of Books — My editor at IRB. He always makes my work better.
• Sketchbook | Ward Sutton – As publishers run out of 19th-century classics to mash up with zombies and vampires, can these more contemporary titles be far behind? – NYTimes.com
  “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, captivated readers and unleashed a whole new genre. Grahame-Smith’s follow-up, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” hit bookstores this month, to be followed this spring by “Jane Slayre” and “Android Karenina.” As publishers run out of 19th-century classics to ransack, can these more contemporary titles be far behind?

  My favorite? Horton Hears a Howl. HT: DW

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