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May.15.2013
Dear Diary, Once again, I must miss the festivities at the Cannes Film Festival. And I did so want to slide naked down a banister into a tub of champagne in honor of Baz L.’s excessive adaptation of GG. I am truly disappointed that I won’t be able to push Leo into the pool and dance the...
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May.11.2013
OPENING SEQUENCE: An extravagant party in full swing. Everybody drinks too much champagne and passes out.
SCENE ONE: Nick Carraway visits Tom and Daisy Buchanan at the Buchanan’s mansion on Long Island. They have lunch and take siestas, then go to Manhattan for a party....
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Apr.29.2013
What would Fitzgerald say about the belated popularity of his novel, The Great Gatsby? “Thanks, it’s the bee’s knees, but what took so long?” The book was out of print at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940. In fact, all of his books were out of print. He was writing screenplays in...
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Apr.23.2013
America appears to be on the road to cultural extinction, the eradication by public consent of culture of any true and profound value, that is. And if not total extinction, which is probably highly unlikely because of the sheer mass of popular entertainment material it produces, then surely it is...
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Apr.17.2013
Today the NYTimes has another article about the growing popularity and feasibility of self-publishing, even among established authors such as David Mamet, and the services now being offered by both traditional publishers and literary agents to accomodate those taking advantage of this expanding...
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Apr.10.2013
[LIGHTS UP on Picasso and Braque seated at a cafe table on the Left Bank in Paris. They are smoking Gitanes and drinking absinthe. A lovely young woman passes by their table and smiles, but they do not notice her.
PICASSO: (musing aloud) Cubism . . . ?
BRAQUE: (after a few...
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Mar.21.2013
Is it possible that Philip Roth’s popularity among non-Jews is primarily due to the fact that he is widely labelled as a self-hating Jew? Is there a deep current of anti-Semitism in American culture at work here? Yes, he is a very accomplished author, so I’m sure there’s more to his popularity than...
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Mar.13.2013
Pope Francis, a humble man surrounded by the luxury of the Vatican. How will he help the poor? Will he be persuasive and persistent enough to prevail upon the secular powers who wield political clout? Will he help the poor by giving away most of the Catholic Church’s vast wealth? If you’re...
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Mar.04.2013
The shocking drama of a taxi driver's family caught up in the conflicts brought upon them by their sudden and unexpected wealth. When a rider dies of a heart attack in the back of Bob Crowley's cab, he discovers a lottery ticket in the pocket of the man's suit. He keeps it and the next day...
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Feb.24.2013
If creative writing workshop students have talent and are motivated, the best you can do is offer them some encouragement. If students don’t have much talent, then you are motivating them to produce more mediocre writing, of which there is far too much already.
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Feb.22.2013
I've been reading about Dan Brown's new novel based on Dante's Inferno, due out in May. Advance comments/criticism are focused on the likelihood that the general reader will bedelighted while the scholarly communities will be sent into a paroxysm -- let's hope of laughter and not despair. Based on...
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Feb.13.2013
. . . then you might like my book of stories, ANXIOUS LOVE, which strikes the right note between ecstasy and despair for Valentine's Day and beyond. It's available in a Kindle edition from Amazon, and you can read 2 of the stories with a Mexican setting for free in MEXCONNECT, the online magazine,...
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Feb.01.2013
To my way of thinking, Valentine's Day is merely a metaphor for the importance of keeping romantic love in our lives. The world would be a much drearier and frightening place without it. So, to that end, I'd like to suggest a book of poetry. 100 Love Sonnets, my book of sensual modern...
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Jan.29.2013
Or at least in a few minutes from now. My book of sensual modern love sonnets is sure to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day. A middle-aged American expatriate recovering from a divorce in an international artists' community in Mexico falls in love with a much younger Mexican woman and writes...
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Jan.09.2013
Mr. Cohen and I met in a bookstore in Montreal. I was in my early twenties and a great admirer of the man. Yes, he was "my man" at the time, in the sense that I had been enduringly inspired by his ballads, and I aspired to write songs that would be as hauntingly poetic as "Hey, That's No Way to Say...
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"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's. I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create." -- WILLIAM BLAKE ”
About Anthony
Anthony S. Maulucci is an Italian American poet, playwright, novelist and painter. He worked in professional theatre and enjoyed a prominent career as a freelance writer before becoming a college professor of writing and literature. In 1989, he founded the...
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Greenpeace, Amnesty Inernational, American Cancer Society, Red Cross, Save the Children