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Oct.07.2008
I think I have one of the best minds of my generation.
But I could be wrong.
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Sep.25.2008
According to The Writers Almanac ( http://www.elabs7.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=552168&mlid=499&siteid=20130&uid=40474be68e ), today is William Faulkner's birthday. At 53, Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I'm 53 and I've...read William Faulkner.
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Sep.17.2008
The problem with the blogs on Redroom is that all the entries are so well written.
All those beginnings, middles, and ends.
All that pace, intelligence, and point of view.
It really makes me long for entries with typoes and sentences that stop in the middle of the
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Sep.14.2008
I was just reading in the May/June Poets and Writers about Fence Magazine's tenth birthday (http://www.pw.org/content/qampa_rebecca_wolff039s_fence_turns_ten). The article mentions the magazine's controversial decision to put a naked woman on the cover.
I missed that issue (though I am now trying...
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Sep.09.2008
One of my favorites, written in 1844:
The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will, of course, wish to cast his vote with the democrat, for free-trade, for wide suffrage, for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code, and for facilitating in every manner the access of the young...
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Sep.06.2008
After watching the political conventions, this quote of Emerson's came to mind:
Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute, or a subscription of stock, for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry, for a new house or a larger...
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Aug.15.2008
I have moved on from Amazon rankings. Worldcat is my new obsession.
Worldcat (http://www.worldcat.org) is a website that connects you to more than 10,000 libraries. If you type in the name of your book, you can see what library systems your book is in and even its availability at a particular...
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Jul.31.2008
Doesn't that mean acclaimed in a critical way, and not acclaimed by critics?
Just wondering...
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Jul.29.2008
(This piece was originally published in The Rake magazine in Minneapolis.)
I lived in Minneapolis for a few years, some years ago, and during that time I came to love the town and the quaint Midwestern customs of its citizens. People smiled at you on the street-without asking for money. If you were...
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Jul.25.2008
Here is a link to an interview I did with Wordybirds, a weekly radio discussion about books and ideas, hosted by Liz Humes on 97.3 FM in Richmond, VA.
http://wordybirds.org/2008/07/08/stephen-evans/
I was appearing on a panel that night discussing writing comedy (fortunately with thoughtful and...
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Memory in reverse is Imagination.”
—The Magical Dog Who Never Sleeps
About Stephen
Stephen Evans is a playwright and author who came to Maryland for the waters. He was not misinformed.
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