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Clip: O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi”

Do you have a favorite Christmas story? Burnside published one of the most beautiful stories of sacrifices — and irony — I’ve ever read. The O. Henry story, “The Gift of the Magi,” is published with a short introduction by me.Filed under: Clips Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, Christmas, clip, O. Henry

Kerouac’s Hometown Inspires Charles Dickens

Illustration (not of Mill Girl, fyi) by Marcus Stone, R.A., from Charles Dickens’ American Notes for General Circulation Many authors have penned Christmas stories, but perhaps the most celebrated is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which has spawned Broadway musicals, a Disney cartoon, a Muppet retelling, a United Nations special by Rod Sterling, a Star […]

Clip: 12 Christmas Trees That Will Blow Your Mind

Burnside published my art post “12 Christmas Trees That Will Blow Your Mind.” …Because nothing says Christmas like cats? * * * Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now available as an ebook and paperback! Filed under: Events, Life Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, Christmas, holiday

The Quote that Stuck with Me

On Tuesday I posted about the 10 Books That Have Stuck with Me. From those books, there is one quote that’s stuck with me the most. It’s from Saul Bellow’s The Dangling Man. The truth is, I don’t even remember the book all that well, but this quote spoke to me when I was sixteen […]

Writing Wednesday: Is Greatness Sabotaging Your Writing?

For better or worse, I don’t recognize a lot of critics’ names. David L. Ulin is an exception. Book critic for The Los Angeles Times, Ulin writes reviews that do so much more than summarize or sweep up a book in a blanket statement. His reviews critique on a higher intellectual plane. Of course, it […]

10 Books That Have Stuck with Me

The other night I fell asleep thinking about the books that have stuck with me over the years. My friend had tagged me in a Facebook post about the ten books that have stuck with her—not necessarily the best books or her favorite books, but the ones that come to mind first. She then tagged […]

Friday Links: Aristophanes Edition

Happy Friday! I’m wrapping up Aristophanes week with some link love devoted to this funny dramatist. Lysistrata is a name featured on the Heritage Floor at The Dinner Party, at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum Pablo Picasso was so inspired by Aristophanes’ Lysistrata that he made several prints […]

Writing Wednesday: When Two Words Become One

Welcome back to Aristophanes week! Yesterday I mentioned that fun bit of trivia that Aristophanes is the creator of the longest word in literature that I gleaned from Oliver Tearle’s Huffington Post article “12 Fascinating Facts About Famous Literature.” Like any dutiful Greek scholar, I read some of Aristophanes’ plays when I was in college. […]

The Longest Word in Literature Is, Of Course, Greek

I always take a deep breath before I spell out my name for someone, a nonverbal warning to the person asking for it to prepare themselves. “N as in ‘Nancy,’” I say, then pause. “I-K.” Another pause, just like I heard my mother spelling it out so many times to credit card companies over the […]

The Quotable Greek: Quick, Bring Me Wine

Imaginary portrait of Aristophanes from ca. 1896 via Wikipedia “Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” ~Aristophanes     Discover other Quotable Greeks here. * * * Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” is now available as an […]