Literazzi

Vox Hunt: Listen to the Lyrics

2008-01-21T01:17:42Z

Audio: Share a song with powerful lyrics. Watching the Wheels John Lennon People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing, Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin, When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strang...

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Week 1 - "Lidie Newton" and "Fight Club"

2008-01-09T15:18:56Z

Ha! Could I have picked more disparate books to read? The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton is a book I've been trying to read for 10 years, literally. It is a fantastic book -- exciting, heartfelt, intelligent -- but there was some...

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The Literary Life

2007-10-09T19:37:05Z

I stole this from Cori -- thanks :) Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? I prefer trade paperbacks, but since I buy most of my books secondhand, I'll take what I can get. My biggest gripe is the lack of margins in books -- I'm a ...

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A fun writing exercise:

2007-10-01T18:37:55Z

When you have one of those days when nothing wants to go on the paper, this is a good way to loosen things up. It only take a few minutes and works surprisingly well. To start: You need two characters and a basic setting. Do this fast, without g...

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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

2007-09-27T14:47:57Z

Wow. Just wow. I stumbled across a copy of Cormac McCarthy's latest book in a used bookstore the other day. $1. I didn't even hesitate; how can you go wrong for a buck? Did I ever get my dollar's worth! I went in to take a bath, took the bath, a...

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Writing Assignment: Façade

2007-09-06T17:11:24Z

Assignment: Write a quick sketch of a character using only the voice of your main character to relate a situation. This should, of course be in the first person point of view, and it should lend deeper insight into the character, perhaps deeper th...

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What I'm Reading Now:

2007-09-06T17:02:05Z

Diary - Chuck Palahniuk The Collected Short Stories of Weldon Kees Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett One Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley

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I've never laughed so much in class . . .

2007-08-22T23:34:12Z

I'm taking a fiction-writing workshop this fall. Two friends of mine and I enrolled in the same section and swore that we wouldn't ridicule each other. We're all terrified creative writing majors who have a deep-seated fear that we are not, in fa...

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One Thousand White Women

2007-08-14T02:05:03Z

One Thousand White Women is a 1998 novel by Jim Fergus, known most for his writing world for Sports Afield magazine and other sporting life. In his preface, Fergus explains the how his novel was born: In 1854 at a peace conference at Fort Laramie...

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For the aspiring author . . .

2007-08-11T19:15:14Z

A link to an interesting Authorlink interview here. Patricia Marx is a longtime writer -- Harvard Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, New Yorker -- but only recently did she write her first novel, a romantic comedy entitled Him Her Him Again The End of...

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