Miss Snark on Writing Hooks
Miss Snark offers advice on writing hooks in query letters.
continue readingHannah on Noir
Mississippi author Barry Hannah, the nightwatchman, writes about noir and teaching the genrein the new issue of The Oxford American. “In noir, doom rules the mood. It is perhaps the one consistent noun of the literature, running wild over both the good and the shady. The apt weather is one of destruction, with characters…
continue readingEnough Already
I’ve about had it with a couple of commercials. The shocking car crash thing was pretty cool, and effective… the first 1,256,329 times I saw it. But now, with All State insurance and Volkswagen both machine gunning our airwaves with the nice-drive-in-the-car-oh-my-god!-smashing-screeching-air bag-deploying thing, I really don’t care. Another television commerical element I’m sick of…
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