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Jul.28.2010
I was reading the letters of Fitzgerald and near the end of the collection I came across an address not too far away in West Hollywood, on North Hayworth, just off the Sunset Strip and not far from Schwab's Drugstore.
Fitzgerald actually lived in a two-floor apartment on North Laurel, not Hayworth...
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May.29.2010
RedRoom has asked us to blog on luck this week. Here are poems from two writers who find luck where others might despair. This poem, posted posthumously in the New Yorker in 1988, within weeks of Raymond Carver’s death from lung cancer, relates how very lucky he felt:
Gravy
No other word will do...
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Nov.23.2009
I find myself one week away from talking to an auditorium full of people on "The Pursuit of Truth in Fiction." I was kindly invited by Santa Monica College to talk about and read my work as part of its literary series. I said, "I'd love to," and days later when I was asked...
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Jul.20.2009
Okay. So I get asked this question about every other day, and it seems like I should update this page because my response before the movie came out is very different from how I feel after the movie came out. For a full history of Benjamin Button and Max Tivoli, you can look below. The executive...
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Jul.13.2009
One question I get asked often in interviews is: What's your favorite novel? I always divide my answer in two:
Favorite Novel by a Live Author: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Favorite Novel by a Dead Author: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
I first read The Great Gatsby 35...
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May.15.2009
Ooh, after the week I've had with babysitter woes, I have really been looking forward to my Friday post where I get to let my hair down, sit back, and ponder the inane, quirky habits of that ecelectic species, writer.
This week's spotlight gelled for me in a dream last night. I haven't had the best...
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Jan.18.2009
At a party the other night, I overheard a female book editor talk to a male author. Both are my friends. He told her that he wrote fiction. "What category?" she asked.
"Mainstream books," he said.
"Chick lit?" she said, astonished.
"No," he said, "...
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Nov.17.2008
A few months back, I'm working furiously on the new website for the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, typing in endless news about their participation in the "Big Read," featuring The Great Gatsby. And then it happens.After about the eightieth time I type "Gatsby" it occurs to me...
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