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Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man [UPDATED] “Kurt Vonnegut finally got his first major biography recently, and so far everybody who’s reviewed it has been shocked by one thing: just how bitter Vonnegut was, in his last years. Biographer Charles Shields spent a lot of time with Vonnegut while working on And So It Goes: [...]
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Has book blogging hit the wall? William Morrow’s blogger notice – latimes.com ‘Has book blogging hit the wall? A marketing department email sent to bloggers on Thursday by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, indicates some kind of horizon is in sight. What’s on that horizon? The end of the flow of free books, which [...]
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How Shakespeare got me through unemployment – Salon.com “But here I was, in a roomful of everyday people, reading in their everyday voices, and as the lines flew by and the pages turned, I saw — or, rather, heard — a whole world opening up to me. Shakespeare no longer seemed impenetrable. And I had [...]
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PERPETUAL FOLLY: Guest Blogger: How I Read a Poetry Manuscript Submission, by Tom Lombardo “As poetry series editor for Press 53, I’ve developed a three tier reading style. In the first reading, I’m looking specifically at three keys: Diction, syntax, metaphor. If the submission lacks excitement in those three key areas, then I reject the [...]
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Margaret Bourke-White, FDR, & the Casual Rituals of Race – John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History ‘The photographs in “At Warm Springs President Roosevelt Carves Up a Turkey Instead of a Map” [Life, 5 December 1938] showed a modern medical facility full of patients who demonstrated humor and resiliency in the face of a [...]
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Reading and Book Signing at New Dominion Bookshop with Janisse Ray April 20 at 12:15 PM A House of Branches Poems by Janisse Ray “Before she became the acclaimed author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt and Pinhook, Janisse Ray was a poet, a calling she has never abandoned. Nor has it [...]
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Coming SOON to WriterHouse: Thursday, October 21, 7pm, Publishing Fiction Against the Grain with Dylan Landis Dylan Landis’s novel-in-stories, “Normal People Don’t Live Like This,” was hailed by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout as a “wonderful, intriguing, and original debut,” yet 17 publishers initially rejected it. Join us to discuss Normal People Don’t [...]
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Introducing Re:Tweet | The Big Money The Big Money is starting a blog about Twitter. And thus, like the Ouroboros, we come full circle. You can shut off the Internet now.
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VQR is the Smartest Magazine on the Planet and Has Embraced the Future of Magazines 'But what makes VQR really smart these days is that they have seen the future of magazines, and that future is “EPUB.” EPUB is the current standard for ebooks, or more precisely, the “format for reflowable digital books and publications.”' [...]
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Creative Nonfiction seeks illustrators "Creative Nonfiction is currently seeking medical/biological illustrators for #40: Animals. This is an excellent opportunity for illustrators (student or professional) to have their work prominently featured in a literary magazine with an international audience and a circulation of over 7,000….Interested artists should email three low-resolution jpeg samples of their best work [...]
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NPR Seeks News-Savvy Books Editor – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "Have you dreamed of working for National Public Radio? Well here's your chance. The public broadcasting leader is in search of a books editor who will edit and produce arts coverage for NPR.org from their Washington, D.C. office. The ideal candidate will need to have daily news [...]
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Guide to Literary Agents – 5 Lies Unpublished Writers Tell Themselves (and the Truths That Can Get Them Published) "5. I'M A BETTER WRITER THAT MOST PUBLISHED AUTHORS. "If you're like me, you love picking up a book from the "Top 10" rack, flipping it open and cringing at the terrible prose. But this author [...]
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On Tuesday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m., Gina Welch will discuss the undercover journey that produced her book In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church. Born in Cleveland, OH, Gina grew up in beautiful Oakland and Berkeley, CA. She was a Henry Hoyns fellow at the [...]
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I received a pleasant surprise in the mail yesterday: a copy of Notable Quotable Cryptograms, from Stephen P. Ryder and the good folks at Cryptogram.org. I’ve posted about the Puzzle Baron before and spent many happy hours with his on-line games. Now I’ve got a handy volume to slip into my bag for those long [...]
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protagonize: about protagonize '"So," you're asking yourself. "What exactly is Protagonize all about?" 'Protagonize is an online community originally dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Recently, the site has been expanded to support the creation of linear stories, as well. We [...]
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