February 2012
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Submission guidelines for Cairn Press LLC →
housingworksbookstore:
Cairn Press says: “We are currently seeking remarkable, completed, fine-tuned fiction manuscripts. We prefer novels, but great short story collections are always welcome.”
I bet someone reading this blog has SOMETHING to send in. Click through for more info and good luck!
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Something out of Something: Only One Week Left... →
somethingoutofsomething:
Four months ago, BOMB magazine and FSG Originals announced the Something out of Something art and design contest. And now we’re down to the final seven days. We’re looking for the best in any kind of visual art inspired by or incorporating the work of Etgar Keret. At stake?
$500
A chance to…
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Poets: Consider yourself very lucky if you come upon a poet—they are an endangered species! Poets can be divided into two types: those over fifty years of age, and those under thirty-two. There are no poets in between thirty-two and fifty because they have gone out and gotten jobs.
Poet or Memoirist?
Poets of the first type tend to be disheveled—they might be wearing one or more articles...
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One Story is thrilled to announce our 2012 Literary Debutantes:
Ramona Ausubel NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US
Megan Mayhew Bergman BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE
Caitlin Horrocks THIS IS NOT YOUR CITY
Katherine Karlin SEND ME WORK: STORIES
Miroslav Penkov EAST OF THE WEST: A COUNTRY IN STORIES
Anna Solomon THE LITTLE BRIDE
Arlaina Tibensky AND THEN THINGS FALL APART
SAVE THE DATE and...
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WatchTruth stranger than fiction (even than mine): Mormon Church converts Anne Frank for 10th time. Via Colbert Nation.
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Some time ago, interviewing the writer V.S. Naipaul, I struggled to get him to do what writers are often asked to do: to apply published insights to new territory — in a way, to become a pundit. I realized, the more I struggled, that Mr. Naipaul, in refusing these prompts, was defending a notion of writing that is at war with instantaneousness.
“There are two ways of talking,” he said. “One...
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2. Katherine Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner, reads from her new work.
February 23, 7 PM. Location: 82nd & Broadway Barnes & Noble.
Katherine Boo was recently featured on the front cover of The New York Times in anticipation of her new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Boo is a reportedly humble yet incredibly, incredibly talented...
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A group of Polish Jews, during World War II, is herded onto trains bound for the concentration camps, but instead, quite by chance, they board a train full of circus performers on tour to entertain the Nazis. What happens to them is the subject of Nathan Englander’s penetrating short story, “The Tumblers”. It is set in an atmosphere where fateful decisions about life or...
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Watch
powells:
Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder and champion of independent bookstores, rocks on the Colbert Report.
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2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists...
Full list:
The L.A. Times Book Prizes are awarded the night before the weekend’s Festival of Books, which will take place at USC. Tickets for the Book Prizes ceremony will be available for purchase on March 26; check the Festival of Books website for details.
2011 LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Biography “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned” by John A. Farrell (Doubleday) ...
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Liz Moore Music and Books: Jennifer Weiner HEFT... →
lizmooremusic:
Every now and then, someone does something so gracious, generous, and unexpected that it sort of takes your breath away.
This is one of those stories.
A few weeks ago, Jennifer Weiner, author of Good in Bed and In Her Shoes, among other titles, spontaneously tweeted (which is like…
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It seems like the quintessentially contemporary phenomenon: the pedestrian, walking along, distracted from his surroundings by the glow of the map in his smartphone.
But there have been some oblivious palm-gazers, it turns out, since long before Steve Jobs came along. In London, during the Great Exhibition of 1851, the merchant George Shove designed a ladylike accessory that would allow...
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Interviewed after winning England’s Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on paper. In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival...
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Watchblexbolex:
my demo as flame artist & visual effect supervisor
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I love this idea—the way any story is an amalgam between the written version and your own experience. We could have a contest where people draw the kitchen table in my story, or in Carver’s, and everyone would depict it differently. The round table you had growing up, or plates on the wall in your grandmother’s kitchen—these details work themselves into the way you imagine the story....
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“In Hasidism and Modern Man, Martin Buber, the great philosopher and folklorist,...”
– “What We Talk About When We Talk About Nathan Englander” by Scott Cheshire on Tottenville.
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