Non Fiction | Non Fiction
May.06.2013
I heard a beautiful quote on the radio the other day. One of our major novelists said that "writing is a way of correcting insults." I am not sure how he meant it exactly, but I can think of several options.
The first way is in fiction, where a real-life slight could turn...
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Feb.17.2013
My cousins were all still in high school and my aunt and uncle ran a bar, “The Ships Inn”. It was a tavern for a rowdy bunch of construction workers and retired military mostly. I would ride my cousin’s bike down to the beach every morning around 10:00; hang out on the beach and people...
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Feb.04.2013
I had been out of high school a year and had been searching for something exciting to do and all I wanted to do was get out of my hometown. Now all I wanted to do is go home. Gusse said he couldn’t run, and I shouldn’t do it either.
I was too chicken shit to go by myself, and before...
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Feb.02.2013
Arriving at the San Diego airport the evening of May 3rd 1982, after a long flight from Chicago’s O’Hare International airport, I began to have severe doubts about my decision to enlist in the Marine Corps. Forty some civilians all from mid western states had been on the flight together...
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Dec.29.2012
I was given a Kindle over a year ago, and I'm afraid I have not spent a lot on books since then. There's just so much page turning entertainment that is out of copyright.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin cannot be recommended enough. This is travel writing at it's best, the...
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Mar.20.2012
My interview aired today at 12pm PST at http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2014/express-yourself . If you miss it, it will be downloadable tomorrow http://expressyourselfteenradio.com/
Literacy and Writing | VoiceAmerica™ www.voiceamerica.com Literacy and Writing Be the Star You Are!® is a literacy...
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Mar.20.2012
My interview aired today at 12pm PST at http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2014/express-yourself . If you miss it, it will be downloadable tomorrow http://expressyourselfteenradio.com/
Literacy and Writing | VoiceAmerica™ www.voiceamerica.com Literacy and Writing Be the Star You Are!® is a literacy...
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Feb.23.2012
"Bader Field; How My Family Survived Suicide" is now available on the iPad, iPod, iPhone, Kobo, Nook, and very soon on Kindle and in nearly 60 other digital markets worldwide for immediate download.
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Sep.15.2011
The other night I went to a reading by Sven Birkerts of his new memoir at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. It was a nice reading for a number of reasons, not the least of which was observing how he has structured the book and his reasoning behind doing so.
Essentially, the memoir is...
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Sep.13.2011
When I first started writing it was actually possible to earn a living writing for magazines and newspapers. Unless you gained entry to the upper crust of the magazine world--a place primarily reserved for the connected--you wouldn't get rich, but you could afford your rent and bills and a modest...
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