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There’s material all around us for short stories and novels. Here are 5 different takes on Ruth Madoff and other clueless wives. I haven’t been following as closely as when the story first broke, but it’s entirely possible she did not know. It never fails to amaze me how people see what they want to…
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Collette
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Here’s what I’m reading this summer: About a Boy, Nick Hornby Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen Birds of America, Lorrie Moore The Secret History, Donna Tartt Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse (may substitute My Man Jeeves) Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons Columbine, Dave Cullen The Hours, Michael Cunningham Since I’m writing a dark comedy, I…
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Quick shout out to Gogosha Optique Best experience getting glasses EVER!
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Been thinking more about the need to shock in fiction. Watched Sydney Pollack’s doc “Sketches of Frank Gehry” last night. Pollack said, and I’m paraphrasing, that he thought of talent as “liquid trouble.” The trick was to let it seep out in productive and creative ways, to use the talent. Also made the point that…
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Had a conversation the other day and the premise that shock lit is over came up. It was thrown in to high relief by the Michael Jackson spectacle. Sometimes it’s hard to top real life with fiction and I began to wonder why we should feel the need. There are so many books about (now…
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Some of the people at school (see below) read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. I find it interesting to look at what authors are doing besides writing. Pressfield, who wrote Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and so on has taken his research on Alexander the Great’s Afghan campaign and looked at Afghanistan. He doesn’t pretend…
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Moved here from Blogger. Found out I liked it here working with Annotation Nation. I don’t know about the Twittering thing, but will try it.
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“140 characters is a novel when you’re being shot at.” — tweeted from Iran
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Green for the Iranian protesters. Not quite the shade, but as close as Blogger gets… Link to Persian novels http://www.mage.com/fictionbooks.html Also at Amazon
Diane Sherlock 
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