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Jul.15.2011
I am very grateful to be able to announce that I received my Doctorate in English (English Letters) this morning. I am also grateful (and astonished) to announce that it was awarded the highest level of acceptance: "Accepted as Submitted with No Changes". Profound thanks to all who made...
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Apr.21.2011
One approach to resume-building for writers is writing contests. On the surface of it, entering contests sounds like a way to elbow your way to the top of your genre. It often is, but you have to be careful in what you enter. I recently received the results of a fiction contest I entered, and I'll...
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Apr.21.2011
One approach to resume-building for writers is writing contests. On the surface of it, entering contests sounds like a way to elbow your way to the top of your genre. It often is, but you have to be careful in what you enter. I recently received the results of a fiction contest I entered, and I'll...
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Jan.26.2011
Term Paper Factory Worker Lands Bloomsbury Book DealBy Jason Boog
Bloomsbury has acquired The Shadow Scholar by Ed Dante, the pseudonym of the author of a controversial article about term paper factories in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sydelle Kramer and Susan Rabiner at Rabiner Literary...
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Jan.14.2011
In my last opinion piece for AOL News ("Educators Can Help Prevent Future Giffords Tragedies," Jan. 10), I argued that, in the wake of the Tucson massacre, American educators need to familiarize themselves with the signs of psychosis and make a commitment to intervene when required....
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Jul.27.2010
An Excerpt from a Chapter of Felicity & Barbara Pym
“Dear Felicity,
Thank you for your email ― I am glad that our correspondence seems to be of help. And you have finished Some Tame Gazelle. Now we begin.
Your notes aren’t bad. You have touched on a few themes that Pym’s biographers,...
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Jul.26.2010
On Saturday, I had an interview that lasted almost three hours (for the September issue of a print magazine). On Sunday, I had one that lasted two. Today, a New York Times writer will be interviewing me and I am pretty much out of words. I'm sure I'll come up with some, but in order to ensure the...
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Apr.05.2010
Episode #002 of The Velvet Podcast just went live a few hours ago. Me, Chris Deal, Bob Pastorella, and Chris Bodenstein talk about: Why the disparity between genre fiction and literary fiction? Why are these two modes so often thought of as mutually exclusive? Though genre fiction (the...
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Feb.22.2010
“Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?”—The Taming of the Shrew, 4.1.18
It’s hard to be a shrew and still get tenure. I did it. But as we all know, Amy Bishop did not. Reading The New York Times front page story on Bishop yesterday, I was struck at the parallels between her life and mine.
Amy...
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Feb.13.2010
Pre-Publication Review of Harrison Solow's Felicity and Barbara Pym
Harrison Solow is a writer of experience at least as diverse as that of her principal voice in this unusual, charming and astringent piece of writing which some will read as an epistolary novel (no adjectival form of the term ‘e-...
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