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Jun.22.2012
Breathe… In and out. Computer problems are a good way to practice breathing to keep from becoming too frustrated and that is what I am finding myself doing this morning. As I began reading and commenting on blogs, the internet connection was lost. First a yellow shading across the bars and now a...
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Nov.07.2011
Well, I truly got out of my comfort zone while our ensemble cast performed the play, The World of Carl Sandburg written by Norman Corwin with modifications by Jann Graham Glann (the director) and Rob Smith (one of the members of the ensemble and the author of McGowan's Return and other titles...
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Sep.27.2011
Jonathan Franzen
1 The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
2 Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
3 Never use the word "then" as a conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose...
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Jun.23.2011
They tell me I’m better on the Internet. Funnier on Facebook, more oomph than “IRL.” I’m not sure how to feel about this. I suppose my avatar is something of an improvement, a jovially connected version of myself, my greatest hits, quickest comebacks, and most “likeable” observations. Version 2.0...
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Apr.17.2011
I haven't read Wallace's cobbled-together book and likely won't. I've read enough of his work, and Franzen's, to realize their writing talents are immense, but wasted on ego-tripping. Still, I can't help but read about Wallace's new book via the media blitz its publisher is orchestrating. Of the...
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Dec.09.2010
Jonathan Franzen, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' Book Club and the rise of the Frustrated White Male
By Alexander Nazaryan
Harpo Productions/APThis photo provided by Harpo Productions Inc., shows best-selling author Jonathan Franzen and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey during taping of "The Oprah...
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Oct.01.2010
On a recent morning at the International House of Pancakes, while eating hash browns that crunched with the afterglow of cigarettes and sipping water that came from moldy faucets, I sat next to a family of three—a scruffy skater-type with droopy eyes and shaggy haircut, his overweight sister and...
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Sep.22.2010
So ladies...do you ever have regrets about breaking up with the bad-boy rock star you met just after college? Are you rethinking your marriage to the corporate attorney?
Guys...are you frustrated that your wife just doesn't get you? Have you found yourself dreaming about running off with that...
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Sep.21.2010
As I'm sure everyone who watches the literary world is aware by now, there's been a lot of discussion about Jonathan Franzen's latest novel, how much attention it's been getting, and how much attention some female novelists haven't been getting. My take appears in my "Writer-on-Residence...
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Sep.08.2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lev-raphael/was-jane-austen-a-popular_b_70...
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