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November 10, 2009
Susan Adrian interviews Nova Ren Suma.
The tremendous Susan Adrian (writer, blogger, all around good egg) has a wonderful interview with Nova Ren Suma, author of Dani Noir, up on her site. Prizes could be yours (YOURS!) if you dare to read, enjoy, and enter.
A snippet:
Interview with Nova Ren Suma and Contest!!Here it is, peeps! The DANI NOIR interview, with the Most Fabulous Nova Ren Suma!!
Nova is the author of DANI NOIR, a tween novel about noir-movie-obsessed Dani and the lies she uncovers in her small...
November 2, 2009
And They Said It Wouldn't Last, or, The Death of the Novel, or, Jeff Somers Owes Me $5
Jeff Somers recently posted a spot-on reaction to Philip Roth's assertion that the novel will be dead in 25 years. Let's assume that Mr. Roth is correct, and that the novel won't last beyond 2034. That would put it ten years beyond the centennial celebration for the first well known claim that the novel was doomed: Ortega Y Gasset's* Decline of the Novel (1925).
The death of the novel has been claimed so many times that it has it's own Wikipedia entry, so if you want a summary of the...
And They Said It Wouldn't Last, or, The Death of the Novel, or, Jeff Somers Owes Me $5
Jeff Somers recently posted a spot-on reaction to Philip Roth's assertion that the novel will be dead in 25 years. Let's assume that Mr. Roth is correct, and that the novel won't last beyond 2034. That would put it ten years beyond the centennial celebration for the first well known claim that the novel was doomed: Ortega Y Gasset's* Decline of the Novel (1925).
The death of the novel has been claimed so many times that it has it's own Wikipedia entry, so if you want a summary of the...
October 29, 2009
October 27, 2009
Currently reading...
[image error] The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Mixed feelings so far. I'll be detailing my thoughts in a review for Popmatters.com.
Currently reading...
[image error] The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Mixed feelings so far. I'll be detailing my thoughts in a review for Popmatters.com.
October 22, 2009
Overcoming writer's block, Rebecca Davis, and a call for ribbon.
I don't really suffer from writer's block. (I can hear the writers out there sharpening their knives.) I think the main reason I don't is that when I finish a story or a novel, I immediately look around for something to help prime the pump for the next work. Reading, of course, is always useful. But even moreso is finding something new, something I don't do myself, something that will force me to think/see/feel with someone else's vision. Art galleries, films, dance performances.
I came to...
Overcoming writer's block, Rebecca Davis, and a call for ribbon.
I don't really suffer from writer's block. I think the main reason I don't suffer from it is that when I finish something, a story or a novel, I immediately look around for something to help prime the pump for the next work. Reading, of course, is always useful. But even moreso is finding something new, something I don't do myself, something that will force me to think/see/feel with someone else's vision. Art galleries, films, dance performances.
I came to appreciate dance because of my...
October 9, 2009
Gay Talese recalls The New York (Drunk) Times of the 60s
Creativity and alcohol? Gay says, not so much:
