Posted on February 29, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Upcoming seminars at WriterHouse: » On Friday, March 23, 9:30am-Noon, join us for Erika Dreifus’s seminar on freelance writing. This session will provide an overview of the varied opportunities that exist for writers to transform their own knowledge and interests into freelance bylines. Although we’ll use a shared pursuit–writing itself–as a starting-point, we’ll also discuss [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Melville House Books » Amazon to begin paying sales tax in Virginia “Add Virginia to the growing list of states where, finally, Amazon.com has been forced to abide by the law and collect sales taxes.” blog | Reviews index “Dmitri Nabokov, the only son of prominent writer Vladimir Nabokov and Vera Slonim, died in Switzerland [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Two New Nonfiction Contests, One Quite Brief « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Posted on February 22, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Shall I Drive This Writer Crazy? A Copy Editor Decides – Lingua Franca – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Ultimately, what is editing but an endless series of little switchblades against the neck?” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Posted on February 21, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Novelist Edits the Scientist – PageView – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Next month, W.W. Norton will release the paperback version of Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science, by Lawrence M. Krauss, a professor of physics and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. The book on Feynman, Krauss’s first foray [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
BIG READ March 2012 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya THE BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. Jefferson-Madison Regional Library has received a grant from the NEA to provide a BIG READ throughout central Virginia during March [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
How Negotiable is a Fact in Nonfiction? « BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog “Writers and readers are buzzing about John D’Agata’s back and forth with his fact-checker as excerpted in Harper’s, and also about yesterday’s response from Salon writer Laura Miller.” Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Posted on February 9, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Millions : Judging Books by Their Covers: U.S. Vs. U.K. “Book cover design never seems to garner much discussion in the literary world, but, as readers, we are undoubtedly swayed by the little billboard that is the cover of every book we read. Even in the age of the Kindle, we are clicking through [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
Melville House Books » Are we too stupid to read Dickens? “David Foster Wallace said it best back in 1993, in his essay ‘E unibus pluram: television and US fiction’: ‘There’s this well-known critical litany about television’s vapidity, shallowness, and irrealism. The litany is often far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about, [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Millions : Nothing if Not Consistent “Fans of Moby-Dick should read Nathaniel Philbrick’s outstanding historical account In the Heart of the Sea. The book, which tracks the fate of The Essex, a New England whaling vessel sunk by a humongous sperm whale in the South Pacific, is vivid and harrowing.” A lovely letter to [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Millions : Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs “By creating this list of my favorite “literary Tumblrs,” I hope to turn you on to some of the sites that make The Millions’ dashboard that much brighter.” PERPETUAL FOLLY: Perpetual Folly Pushcart Prize Rankings of Literary Magazines for 2012 “I have updated [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough
iConnect Photography Book Release & Opening Reception | Piedmont Council for the Arts “Please join us on Friday, February 3 from 5:00-7:00pm at the CitySpace Gallery for the book release party and exhibit opening of the iConnect Photography Program. Now in the its sixth year, the program is a collaboration between The Bridge PAI and [...]
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