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May.19.2013
A flaky torn bit of page crumbled in my hand as I opened the bookshelf. The remnant had left nothing to read. The collection is eclectic, but I would not call it my personal library. Along the years, I have stuffed too many things in there — photographs, a replica of a Swiss chalet, wooden toys...
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May.13.2013
My own mother has long gone to her reward (and if heaven is what we most enjoyed in life, there is a flower garden involved). I have created (I just realised) few mothers for my novels (or might a Mother Superior count). I have met and known some truly horrible mothers, but am more acquainted...
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May.10.2013
And let us not forget the birds: "After Grip died, Dickens had him taxidermied. Literary historians believe the bird inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” written shortly after Poe reviewed Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge, which features a talkative raven. Grip now lives in the Rare Books...
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May.02.2013
We writers have heard for years that cinema has co-opted books. We've been taught to write in a manner that mimics cameras shots, i.e., to cinematize literature. Now a new twist appears (see link below) with Steven Soderbergh retiring from cinema and posting chapters from a novella on Twitter....
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Apr.28.2013
Restful Sunday. Beautiful day with the sunlight flitting in and out between the grey clouds and the garden slowly coming to life little by little after the darkness of the days finally beginning to slide slowly away from us. Still, it seems that it, the garden, is more hesitant this year than...
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Apr.20.2013
Finally got around to posting a new tale, "The 1001st Night", on my Scribd page.
It's been awhile since I've added a story to the site and that's negligent of me. In the time I've been on Scribd, my tales and excerpts have drawn over 15,000 "reads", and for a guy weened in the small press...
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Apr.18.2013
As I write this, I ask myself if this has any validity. Do fiction writers have an obligation and responsibility to society and humankind? I’m referring to when writers create stories about atrocities which are not documented in history, but conjured and invented with all of its repugnant detail,...
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Apr.16.2013
Vân, Cúc, Trúc, and Trang; Dũng, Dai, Khôi and Phát. In my mother tongue these names carry music, cadence, poetry. They evoke for the listener images of clouds, peonies, bamboo, jade; acts of bravery or wishes for prosperity. In English, alas, they lose all meaning as the inflexible American...
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Apr.14.2013
Dropping the 'i' Word -- History, Humanity and Martians Story tools
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New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 14, 2013
Ed. Note: In early April the Associated Press announced that it would no longer use the word “...
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Apr.14.2013
One of my Facebook friends is a fellow named Brian Heffron. Like most FB connections, I don't know Brian, really, never met him, but I make an effort to follow the writers among those connections, and Brian is one of those. He's on Goodreads, too, touting a new book of his, Colorado...
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