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Aug.26.2009
Washington Post, why are you not content with one publication? Why must you bring forth blogs like some kind of web-based hydra? Nonetheless, thank you for your nice mention in whatever this thing is:
Skurnick even thinks to include risque fiction by Jean Auel and V.C. Andrews, which was intended...
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Jun.10.2009
What a pleasure it was being interviewed by Elizabeth Chang in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine.
The article, Author Profits with Perfect Pitch,starts with, "Sam Horn is an expert at getting noticed, professionally and personally. The author, speaker and consultant, whose latest book is...
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May.31.2009
I created this comic strip around the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre for the Washington Post. I tried a black and white version, but the editor, Marie Arana, said she'd give me the centerfold if I drew it in full color. Here is the interview with Marie:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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Feb.13.2009
You've read about Six Word Memoirs, right? Well, here are some Six Word Love Stories from WaPost, just in time for Valentine's Day---
Craigs List. True love. Who knew?Lover breaks mold, none can compare.Past gone, future unknown, present bliss.Early morning love, thanks, Lou Rawls.Serendipity, luck...
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Sep.24.2008
Francine Prose is profiled in the WaPost today. Things I gleaned from the article:
1. writing cannot be taught, but reading can
2. go ahead and canniblize your own life; you can distort the actual facts
3. forget outlining; you learn about your characters as you write them into being
4. it's the...
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Sep.16.2008
I've been working on a review of Horace's satires. He was such a dude! But I need a break, and am guessing you do, too.
This list has the Washington Post's winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers were asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. Gotta love it--
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Sep.06.2008
For all you Strunkaholics out there, Jonathan Yardley has a WaPost article on the difference between eloquence and bloviation, the need for concision in writing("a sentence should contain no unnecessary words, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no...
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Jul.07.2008
As I was taking photos of the old Howard Theater for a Road Trip article I wrote for the Washington Post (Raise Your Hands for a Gospel Tour of Washington), I was greeted by three old men sitting in a Cadillac. They regaled me with tales of the theater in its heyday. One said that Della Reese lived...
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Jun.30.2008
In yesterday's WaPost, Jonathan Karp postulates that we are living in the age of the disposable book, and sees a future in which only truly novel novels will flourish. The rest of us will (continue to?) struggle. Then there's that whole mulching thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
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