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Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...

Friday Freebie: 4 for Sept. 4: Hemingway's Girl by Erika Robuck, Love Slave by Jennifer Spiegel, The Three-Day Affair by Michael Kardos, On a Farther Shore by William Souder

Congratulations to Rhonda Lomazow, winner of last week's Friday Freebie: The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields.

This week's book giveaway is a very special one in honor of Books-Other-Than-Fobbit which will be published on September 4.  The day after Labor Day is a red-letter day for many writers whose books officially launch like rockets, arcing across the sky into the hands of readers.  This week's Friday Freebie celebrates the accomplishments of my fellow authors who--if th...

Gazing Into the Mirror: The News From Fobbit Headquarters

I'd hoped to write about someone other than me today.  For instance, I've got a blog post spotlighting Alexis Smith's excellent novel Glaciers  which is just itching to be written; or I could have raved about the gorgeous covers for The Age of Desire and Cascade ; then there's a guest review of Jonathan Evison's great new road-trip novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving  which I'm dying to share with you.  And I will post all those things, eventually.  But not toda...