hubris | hubris
Mar.15.2013
New characters entered the current NIP. They had background stories as well as a role in the current tale.
Writing and thinking about them, I realized how much my fantasy novel employed politics, power and hubris. It's not surprising, thinking about it. Wherever there are rulers,...
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Jul.12.2011
It was midday on a Monday in early August of the year 2000 and the bidding on my first novel had reached six figures, then paused for people to track down more cash. I was 32. I’d never made over $12,000 in a year.
by Alex Shakar
1.“We’re closing in on a deal,” my agent told me on the phone. “I’m...
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Feb.12.2009
In her New Yorker article (Feb. 9, '09), Another Country, James Baldwin’s Flight from America, Claudia Roth Pierpont describes Baldwin’s 1961 arrival at a party in Istanbul.
“Baldwin’s arrival at his Turkish friend’s door, in the midst of a party, was, as the friend recalled, a great surprise: two...
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