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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Writing & Publishing the Novel
Do you live in the Bay Area? Do you like helping children? Do you need a lil’ help with that novel you’ve been working on (ok, thinking about)? Then you should attend 826 Valencia’s next Adult Seminar, “Writing & Publishing…
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More Disch
“Disch’s take is that by living out the misery of our predecessors virtually, we can gain a bit more insight and compassion with regard to our misery and that of those around us. He’s probably right.” Yesterday we linked to…
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“A History of the Timeline”
“Cartographies of Time, published recently by Princeton Architectural Press, is an eye-popping record of the ways that mapmakers, chronologists, artists and others have tried to convey the passage of time visually.” The book wins Jennifer Schuessler’s vote for “most beautiful…
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“I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish’’’
“For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, Tinkers, sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody was interested.” The story of how Harding’s unpublished manuscript became…
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Forget “How-To” and Do
“My advice? Put the manuals and the how-to books away. Read the writers themselves, whose work and example are all you really need if you want to write.” Richard Bausch skewers the “How to Write a Book” industry, explaining why…
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Comics as Poetry
PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL creator Ian Huebert celebrates National Poetry Month Rumpus comics style: “Ordnung.”
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“There are many excellent stories that don’t interest me.”
“On Easter I signed up my first short story for the Paris Review. It’s by a young woman you’ve never heard of named April Ayers Lawson, and it’s an astonishment. All sex and brains and feeling. And it’s funny too.…
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The First Time Since 1981
“[Erika] Goldman is Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press, the tiny imprint behind Tinkers. To call it a surprise that Bellevue published a Pulitzer-winning novel — the first small press to do so since Louisiana State University Press published A…
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“More Than Poetry”
“Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power struggles between women and men, black and white. Brown’s position…
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Documenting Burroughs
“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness of control systems, the government, queer issues, drug control, and…