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Feb.01.2013
I have a birthday coming up. A decade. I'd meant to ask people contribute to the facelift fund, but I've seen too many facelifted zombies on both sides of the Atlantic. My suggestion of a bicycle was met with rather more enthusiasm on the part of the probable participants in my birthday present. An...
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Sep.25.2012
The writing goes apace, the company is terrific, but what I might be proudest of is the development of my wilderness (albeit with Maintenance and Cooks on call 24/7) skills, with regard to field mice: I now have 4 killer traps, baited with peanut butter, strategically arranged around the baseboards...
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Sep.22.2012
At night, after I return on my bike to my cottage, glad to see its lights at the end of the dark road, watching out for potholes and gravel traps, thinking about whatever event has followed dinner--last night an extraordinary feature film, The Forgiveness of Blood, directed by Joshua...
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Sep.17.2012
In my cottage over the road and through the woods, I have two rooms, a bedroom and a studio, a bathroom and two (2) screened porches (screened because of the bugs, in summer, not a problem now), furnished with lovely weatherworn old arms chairs and tables, into which I may curl and contemplate the...
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Jun.05.2010
As many of you know, one reason I started this blog was to let people know what opportunities are available for writers. Forgive me if this information is a repeat, but I wanted to take a minute and let new people know a little more about residencies. Here are a few FAQs. Q: What is a residency? A...
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Dec.13.2008
Overlapped in the 1960s at the MacDowell Colony with Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road. In The New Yorker, Dec. 15, 2008, there's a feature on Yates and new movie based on novel... with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. That prompts this blog...
James Wood's feature, "Like Men...
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