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Aug.09.2008
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize Lecture, 2006...
In his Nobel Lecture, Pamuk provides a fairly comprehensive reply to the question, "Why do you write?" Who has not been asked that question? Is there any writer who has not asked herself / himself that question? Why? Why the fuck am I doing this...
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Aug.08.2008
My neighborhood bookclub met tonight to discuss Julie and Julia, by Julie Powell.
(For those of you who don't know, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Powell set a goal of making every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking--all in one year, in a tiny apartment in New York. Lots of...
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Aug.02.2008
The room at Deptford again, a month or two later. Will Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd, who is in a kind of depressed stupor, at the table, drinking, staring at Christopher (Kit) Marlowe's body on the floor, stretched in front of the table. Thomas Kyd's hands are wrapped in heavy cloth, his...
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Jul.28.2008
So, tomorrow is the Big Launch Day, and I've been warned by my fellow writers not to take it too much to heart if the Day ends up being . . . well, pretty much like any other. The book will be officially released, yes, but pre-orders are by and large already being fulfilled and it's not as if...
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Jul.22.2008
Imagine my surprise yesterday to get a package from my publisher containing two copies of the Brazilian co-edition of What Men Really Want in Bed. Or, in Portuguese, O Que os Homens Realmente Querem na Cama.
This is probably ho-hum news to authors used to being translated into multiple languages,...
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Jul.19.2008
Comedian Will Durst (whose first book, The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, has just hit the stands) co-hosted a first-ever Red Room Writers' Mixer last week at Tosca on Columbus in San Francisco, with his wife, Debbie, and Red Room CEO Ivory Madison, and if you missed it, you missed...
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Jul.16.2008
O cool, grey city of love! -George Sterling
Where else can you look out to see the twinkling night windows of the financial disctrict, the noble and erect Coit Tower shadowed by the moon, the diamond-like necklace of little lights strung along the outline the Bay...
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Jul.16.2008
If you've met me in person, especially if you've met me at a party, you might be stunned to hear me call myself an Introvert. Get me in a group and I smile a bunch, especially when I'm in a crowd of people I'm excited to meet. I talk, I talk, I talk... I give my opinions, sometimes loudly, I...
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Jul.14.2008
Can happy writers produce great art?
I must admit, I'm a skeptic. I like my writers skirting at the edge of life. I like them alcoholic and drug-ridden, depressed and suicidal. As if the page is the only thing that is keeping them alive.
I don't believe in the happy-writer.
I am certain, that if...
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Jul.08.2008
So I've been trying to think of what the most appropriate kind of opening post (beyond the usual Greetings fare, which doesn't really count) would be for this brand new site. I mean, most people are blog savvy by now, and they're going to expect something insightful at best, passably entertaining...
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