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Aug.16.2012
Photos: Three out of about a dozen I took at Fenway, August 7, 2012. Fenway's always beautiful.
I know this isn't my sports blog, but I haven't written there in awhile, and this is a very important issue, as it pertains not just to this sports team, but in many ways to our reality...
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Aug.13.2012
"For what is most central is the exploration of 'being' to which the text devotes itself, asking the question what remains when everything superfluous is taken away." (Knowlson on Comment C'est)
I found Beckett through his letters. I was reading a review of the first set and was...
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Mar.29.2012
I've been reading David Foster Wallace, old essays on the web. Here's a link. Even if you don't think you are interested in tennis it's a great read. The lobster essay is good too. Infinite Jest takes longer.
And now, I'm off, around the corner to the Village Voice to...
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Mar.16.2012
I have a one page synopsis and an extended synopsis.
Last year I spent several weeks reading Lukeman's other book (How To Write A Great Query Letter) and I wrote a query letter. I sent it off to five agents and received two rejections and three non-responses (yes I included SASEs).
I...
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Feb.23.2012
Finished DeLillo. Chic Lit. Writing dressed up in Armani or Yoji Yamamoto. But why, why is Coetzee so much better (in my opinion, of course)? Because he seems to try less hard? Because he is wiser and cleverer and deeper, while seeming simple and easy? I started the...
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Aug.15.2010
Hey, check out the interview I did with hilariously twisted author Sam Lipsyte (The Ask, Home Land) over at The Nervous Breakdown.
Here's how it begins:
In 2004 I sat on someone's couch, listening to a writing group take turns demolishing one of my short stories. The final critique, delivered by...
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Jul.10.2010
Every couple of weeks I write parsley on the grocery list and get it wrong. I've just thought of a mnemonic device: ley like the end of my name which people always misspell. Beckett, according to his cousin Maurice, used to grumble, "I like my t."
It's one of those days--spendthrift...
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May.11.2010
Sir Ian McKellen mistaken for a tramp while taking a break outside rehearsals of Waiting For Godot
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 7:00 PM on 11th May 2010
Whether he's playing Gandalf, Magneto or King Lear, Sir Ian McKellen is known for his character roles.
But his latest performance was...
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Nov.23.2008
It is wet, windy and cold here today, another typical Sunday really! I lit the stove early but despite my best efforts it keeps going out because of the down draft in the chimney. We are out of kindling too and that doesn't help matters. Still, I managed to walk the dog, although my timing of ...
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Oct.10.2008
The Nobel has landed in the French lap. Writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has won the 2008 Prize for Literature.
The citation lauds him as the
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.”
Huh? Are not all...
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