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Feb.12.2013
I MISS NEWSPAPERS!Posted on February 12, 2013 by Linda Lange
I miss newspapers. Not the piddly thing I read this morning—the one that didn’t last through breakfast—but newspapers like they used to be.
Recently, in search of Packers history, I unearthed some Green Bay Press-Gazettes from the ‘60s....
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Feb.10.2013
The New York Times' Modern Love is the Holy Grail for writers. I tried six times to get in and every time was politely rebuffed. My pieces took place too far in the past. The tone wasn't right. The subject matter wasn't quirky enough. I just gave up, assuming they hated me, but then a month ago, I...
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Dec.02.2012
Generally, the end of the year is a nail-biting time for authors.
During November and December, magazines, literary publications and major newspapers begin to roll out lists of best/notable books of the year.
Of course, as a writer, you pray and hope that your book will be on at least one of those...
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Nov.29.2012
What has been going on at the United Nations? Why shouldn’t the Palestinians at least be a nonmember observer state of the United Nations? For that matter, why not full membership?
I guess I’m confused by it all. When I...
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Nov.15.2012
As I was doing my morning coffee and baked good--a thoroughly enjoyable if not totally healthy routine--I also spent the usual amount of time reading through the four or five websites I go to every morning. But then I thought: Do I really need to read all of this crap?
I go to the Washington Post (...
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Oct.21.2012
In our blog post here early Saturday morning, before 8 a.m. CDT, that is. (See below "October Surprise" posting.) The Times story came out Saturday evening.
Redroom is now officially the cutting edge of journalism. Really. Tell your friends to join, eh?
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Sep.12.2012
Please welcome my special guest, Jack L. Brody, author of the latest suspense thriller, The Moroni Deception. I had the opportunity to read it and you can find my review in Blogcritics. In this interview, Brody talks about the history behind the book and how difficult it was to dwell in...
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Aug.21.2012
A Rough Guide To The Dark Side [Paperback], by Daniel Simpson (Zero Books; Washington, DC, August 2012) 252 Pages, $16.95.
Author Simpson, an Englishman who appeared to be on a charmed course, read history at Cambridge and moved somewhat effortlessly on to Reuters and then the New York Times, where...
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Jul.19.2012
Emergency personnel and journalists all chase tragedy. The difference, I can tell you from personal experience, is that medical technicians, firefighters, and cops, for example, respond by fighting whatever dark force they’re responding to. The journalist is just there to record it. If someone’s on...
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Jul.18.2012
After a few action-packed high-culture days in Toronto at the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs biannual conference, I arrived back in Montreal to familiar familial bedlam, co-starring my favourite swisster-in-law and the youngest of her brood, twin two-year-olds,...
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