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Why Narrative?
I’m spending a week on Kelly Link stories this semester, and looking at contemporary literature always poses a challenge. I’ve taught my students to read stories from an academic angle, to conduct...
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How to Write a Story: Vonnegut Speaks
A big thank you to the wonderful reader who sent me these links, a reader whom I’m not naming because I do know know if he or she wishes to be named. Kurt Vonnegut narrates his 8 Tips on How to Write a...
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Books on Craft & Process
These are the top books on craft and process I’ve come across. Do you have any to add to the list? Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott On Writing by Stephen King Story by Robert McKee Chapter after Chapter by...
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Joseph Heller's Handwritten Outline for Catch-22
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Make Good Art: An Evening with Neil Gaiman
Reblogged from Chris Urie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI Being a bit frustrated and exhausted with life lately, last night's Make Good Art event with Neil Gaiman was exactly what I needed...
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Summer 2013 Focus on Anxiety: John Cheever, Rollo May, Goce Smilevski,...
I’ve come across much discussion of anxiety lately in media, books: paranoia, fears, the existential questions that are the bane of our modern existence. I checked out all of the below selections...
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David Foster Wallace: Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the...
Reblogged from Return: A Light Novel Series: He couldn't have said it better: The final draft is finished. A few chapters need final proofreading but everything is looking better. I'm shopping for a a...
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The call for more dynamic and interesting female characters in literature
Reblogged from Ginger Musings: In Kelsey McKinney's article for The Atlantic, she questions Western literature canon and even modern books that are being published inasmuch as they not only lack...
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Call for Papers for LASA 2014 Panel—"Aesthetics of the Abyss: Memory and...
Reblogged from Repeating Islands: Natalie Belisle and Marcela Guerrero invite you to submit abstracts for a LASA 2014 panel entitled "Aesthetics of the Abyss: Memory and Visual Culture in the...
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Copyright, Corporate Greed, and Books You Can't Get
Reblogged from pigeon weather productions: This very interesting study illustrates quite clearly how copyright and corporate greed have resulted in the unavailability of books over the past few...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Prologues
Reblogged from Kristen Lamb's Blog: To prologue or not to prologue? That is the question. The problem with the prologue is it has kind of gotten a bad rap over the years, especially with agents. They...
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Being open to other perspectives in storytelling
Reblogged from Geeky Book Snob: I posted a Ted talk video not too long ago about the danger of the single story - a video that effected me greatly. Accepting only one perspective of a story limits...
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Banned Books Week: Candide by Voltaire
Reblogged from Motherfuckin' Book Reviews: There are several reasons for why Candide was banned. Many of them due to the fact that Voltaire was part of the Enlightenment, and subsequently filled this...
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The Awakening of Joyce's Lust for Beauty
Reblogged from A R T L▼R K: For those soul-searching, here is an excerpt from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce (1882 – 1941). This autobiographical...
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Things Librarians Look At.
Reblogged from Eleventh Stack: When I started as a clerk at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh- East Liberty, I had no idea that being a librarian was a thing. I just needed a job. I didn't even care...
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On Waiting
Reblogged from hazyshadesofme: Some time back I held an “appreciation” for the growing audience my blog was accumulating. I had hit 400 followers and in my euphoria I offered Stephen King’s book “On...
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Historical Slang We Love from the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’
Reblogged from Flavorwire: All hail the silver fox of dictionaries. The Oxford English Dictionary turns 130 today. The first published installment of the definitive dictionary was printed back in...
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Spike Jonze’s “Her” and Other Human-Computer Stories
Reblogged from Monster Maven:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw&w=600&h=368] Robot: mechanical or virtual agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a...
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TCR in Best American
Originally posted on The Hooch: News & Events: As we look forward to the new Best American anthologies in October, we celebrate Lamar York prize Winner in Nonfiction Greta Schuler’s “Empty Boxes”...
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