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Jun.04.2012
I'm sure I'm not the only scribe who goes through periods of self-doubt, spells of intense reflection and turmoil.
I had one of those episodes this weekend and it wasn't pleasant. A long interval of berating myself for not being a better writer, a more powerful and compelling writer--perhaps then...
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May.20.2012
By
STEVEN TRAVERS
COPYRIGHT (2011) by STEVEN TRAVERS
I dedicate this book to Tony Salinn, whose talent and passion for baseball writing will be remembered.
--Steven Travers
DUSTCOVER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ...
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May.16.2012
Gustave Flaubert
"Talent is long patience." -- Gustave Flaubert
A few years ago I lay on the couch in my living room, curled up into a fetal position, intermittently groaning and blinking back tears.
I felt as though everything I had worked for had been ripped away from me, as though I...
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Jan.06.2012
For the last year I have been on a self-designed tour-tear all over the country selling Woman Lawyer: the Trials of Clara Foltz.
It is the story of a brilliant and courageous woman who invented the public defender, raised five children on her own, tried cases when juries were all-male and was a...
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Dec.15.2011
Just as life goes on after disaster, so too does life go on after exultation. Barry Bonds: Baseball’s Superman was a critical and financial success. I became overconfident. My contract with Lloyd Robinson and Suite A Management expired in 2002. We remained friends. He agreed to represent me on a...
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Apr.08.2011
Two years after the birth of my book, I had quietly come to the unconscious conclusion, that it had finished surprising me. Then went downstairs for today's mail.
Truthfully, I ran down to get my royalty check, which I really need, and it wasn't there, but something better was. Four bulging...
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Mar.16.2011
I signed a lease Friday, and I'm moving to Hell’s Kitchen next week. (Pix soon.)
Two big reasons from the outset:
Closer to the city.
A second bedroom for an office in a real room with a real door, and room for two tables for writing vs web. That worked really well in Denver. I need it...
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Jan.07.2011
No sooner had I finished complaining about the loneliness of life as a writer (deep in the comments), than the door buzzed.
Books! Yea!!!
I've been pining for my own copy of Patti Smiths' Just Kids since it came out last spring, but too cheap/poor to buy a copy. (And I've been on book-buying...
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Dec.30.2010
Let me start with a small example. Last night I updated Facebook riding home from the gym: Colorful girls laughing it up on the 1 train. Loving their energy, but tourist woman glancing up nervously, cautiously. Aw. They won't hurt u. I was really moved by the girls and then startled by the out-of-...
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Dec.06.2010
This weekend, I got a last-minute invitation to tonight's live performance and taping of The Moth.
Damn. Kristin Chenoweth, Mos Def . . . you can read the list. Any of these people would be cool to see read/perform. All of them at once. Nice.
I get asked a lot why I finally moved to New York...
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