November 2011
39 posts
“It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as...”
– Kingsley Amis (via libraryland)
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How to Be a High-Powered Literary Agent, by a... →
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his...”
– Dorothy Parker (via quote-book)
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“I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams (via sixthfloorwalkup)
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“SIR – Thanks for the story nine years ago on the benefits of office clutter (“In...”
– A letter from Australia. (via theeconomist)
Love it!
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“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as...”
– John Steinbeck’s bitter fruit
Seventy years after The Grapes of Wrath was published, its themes – corporate greed, joblessness – are back with a vengeance. Melvyn Bragg on John Steinbeck’s remarkable legacy
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A reminder about what really matters →
Apparently, I’m late on linking this, but it’s a good thing to remember always.
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Burger King
Remember when it came out that J.D. Salinger liked Burger King? I thought of that today because I just ate a Whopper Jr. with cheese.
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Letters from nowhere.: for Jessica Brokaw, writer. →
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dying-is-an-art:
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” - Oscar Wilde ‘It will take time, and heart.’ That is the only thing my editor told me before I embarked upon writing my first novel. Yes, writing 3,000 words everyday…
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i-am-the-seagull asked: Hey! Thanks, you're my 100th follower :) You're awesome. Is there any specific thing you'd like me to post about, as a thank you for the follow?
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others. →
Are you like me? Do you secretly or not secretly believe that you are supremely unintelligent and have nothing to say? Then you should read this. It might help. Kinda
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“I’m finishing up a collection of short stories. They are all linked by the fact...”
– Sam Lipsyte : The New Yorker (via peterwknox)
Ha!
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A Hate Story Set In Starbucks
brettjenkins:
Yes, I have taken the last sugar packet. Yes, I need all fourteen of these sugar packets.
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I am happy to report...
That I am making good progress on my story for Brokaw Story Writing Month (BroStoWriMo). I think I will finish it by 11/30, with revisions.
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I have been on Tumblr for a week!
One thing I’ve learned is that people really like to post pictures of wacky bookshelves. Or even ordinary ones.
People's Libraries
lareviewofbooks:
JASON BOOG on the return of the thirties. In the spring of 1935, the famous novelist Maxwell Bodenheim crashed the New York City welfare office and begged for relief after five years of the Great Depression. His career had stalled, and Bodenheim hadn’t earned a dime since his final novels had flopped. He was working on a manuscript called Clear Deep Fusion, but he would never...
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How To Name Your First Novel →
Ha! I need this. I suck at titles.
bookriot:
With tongues planted firmly in cheeks, NPR offers such helpful suggestions as:
If Your First Novel Will Be A Workplace Satire
At Least They Left Us The [A PIECE OF OFFICE MACHINERY]
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The Rumpus Interview with John Wesley Harding →
I met this dude about four years ago at the same residency I mentioned a few posts down. Really nice. And gave a great reading.
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Finally, I found it
It being a short story I began almost four years ago at one of my MFA residencies in England and e-mailed to myself. I remember it being longer and better than it actually is.
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In Which We Get Down To The Actual Writing →
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Braun: Bogota man is hospital technician by day,... →
Good for you, Jerry LaMothe. Bad for you, Bob Braun, for this line: “Hard to believe it’s the work of a self-taught guy with a day job as an EEG technician.” That attitude is really tiresome. It is not at all hard to believe.
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I do not do National Novel Writing Month. I hope to finish one short story this November; however, I actually started it in October.
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“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like...”
– Jean Rhys 