We were never asked to participate, but Emerging Writers Forum has an interview with the bloggers up. Go check it out.
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Audrey Niffenegger confesses that she wrote the sex scenes in The Time Traveler’s Wife last. Niffenegger is also penning a a writing book called You’ll…
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Nature: “A new human-like species – a dwarfed relative who lived just 18,000 years ago in the company of pygmy elephants and giant lizards –…
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“Anne Rice”: A dish tainted with hallucinogenics served at a literary function causing its eater to whine about lack of literary ability. In the worst…
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A reader writes: You recently mentioned reading the whole of Ulysses in less than an hour, and you frequently allude to the novels you read…
“At that time, 1962 and earlier, practically all screenwriters — I would say there were about eight exceptions — were full-out hacks, completely incompetent in…
NaNoWriMo starts in a few weeks. If you’re in the Cape Cod area, Laurie Higgins would like to hear from you. Gerald Hiken’s an actor…
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Don Paterson hopes to revive the aphorism: “More than anything, the aphorism tries desperately hard to be memorable. (Of course, this is the aim of…
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Lionel Shriver: “Joyce Carol Oates is an atrocious writer.” When you’re pilfering the mines of histrionic snark over Joyce Carol Oates (“to call the novel…
A writer mistakes a JCO blurb for junk mail. (via Galleycat) Tonight in San Francisco, there’s a memorial tribute to Jack Kerouac. The Chronicle has…
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