There were several news reports yesterday that Oprah Winfrey has selected Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as her next book club selection.
An Incredible List of Jobs
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“Grocery store sacker, house painter, hay hauler, pulpwood cutter-and-hand loader, fence builder, bricklayer’s helper,
If We Said This, We’d Just Be Bitter
If you or I said this, we would be considered bitter, frustrated, bitchy aspiring authors. But thanks to this quote,
14-and-a-Half Pages for the Most Complex Components of Fiction Writing
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I’ve been pretty hard on writing/publishing books. Far too many of them are just garbage.
NYT Coverage of Larry Brown Concert
Back in February, I mentioned plans for a tribute concert for Larry Brown that featured a number of respected musicians playing in the memory of their old friend.
The Majesty of the Mundane
In my own fiction, I’ve recently been making a concerted effort to remove absolutely everything that isn’t absolutely necessary.
Initial Thoughts on A Miracle of Catfish
I posted some initial thoughts on A Miracle of Catfish over at Beatrice today. We’ll have more discussion about this novel throughout the week.
The Return of Duncan McLean
It’s an odd coincidence. Just the other day, I was looking at the shelf full of Irvine Welsh books.
New York Times Reviews
A couple of reviews in the New York Times yesterday caught my attention. James Poniewozik reviewed Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End and found it “perceptive and and darkly entertaining.”
Life After Larry
Yesterday’s Clarion Ledger had an article about how Mary Annie Brown is coping with the passing of her husband,
A Whole Lotta Larry
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A Miracle of Catfish, the novel that Larry Brown was working on at the time of his sudden death,
Interview: Tom Zoellner, Author
At the back of a two-story warehouse, “there was a door wide enough for large cargo that led into a dim chamber,”
Rare Book Lusts
Syntax of Things provided a link to the Rare Book Room,
The Way to Make Money Writing
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“Writing is bosh. There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher’s daughter.”
Los Angeles Security
I was in Los Angeles last weekend for a meeting with my writing partner and some other Hollywood types. During a break in the weekend’s meetings,
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