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Monthly Archives March 2007

Oprah and Cormac

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 29, 2007 In News 1 No tags 0

There were several news reports yesterday that Oprah Winfrey has selected Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as her next book club selection.

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An Incredible List of Jobs

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 28, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

Conversations With Larry Brown (Literary Conversations Series) 

“Grocery store sacker, house painter, hay hauler, pulpwood cutter-and-hand loader, fence builder, bricklayer’s helper, carpenter,

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If We Said This, We’d Just Be Bitter

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 28, 2007 In News 2 No tags 0

(alternate text)If you or I said this, we would be considered bitter, frustrated, bitchy aspiring authors. But thanks to this quote,

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14-and-a-Half Pages for the Most Complex Components of Fiction Writing

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 28, 2007 In Book Reviews 3 No tags 0

This Year You Write Your Novel 

I’ve been pretty hard on writing/publishing books. Far too many of them are just garbage.

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NYT Coverage of Larry Brown Concert

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 27, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

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.

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The Majesty of the Mundane

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 23, 2007 In General 1 No tags 0

(alternate text)In my own fiction, I’ve recently been making a concerted effort to remove absolutely everything that isn’t absolutely necessary.

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Initial Thoughts on A Miracle of Catfish

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 21, 2007 In News 1 No tags 0

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.

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The Return of Duncan McLean

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 21, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

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It’s an odd coincidence. Just the other day, I was looking at the shelf full of Irvine Welsh books.

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New York Times Reviews

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 19, 2007 In Book Reviews 0 No tags 0

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.”

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Life After Larry

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 19, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

(alternate text)Yesterday’s Clarion Ledger had an article about how Mary Annie Brown is coping with the passing of her husband,

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A Whole Lotta Larry

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 19, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

A Miracle of Catfish 

A Miracle of Catfish, the novel that Larry Brown was working on at the time of his sudden death,

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Interview: Tom Zoellner, Author

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 15, 2007 In Interviews, Slushpile Exclusive 1 No tags 0

(alternate text)At the back of a two-story warehouse, “there was a door wide enough for large cargo that led into a dim chamber,”

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Rare Book Lusts

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 15, 2007 In News 0 No tags 0

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Syntax of Things provided a link to the Rare Book Room, a site that allows visitors to see images of some of the rarest books in the world.

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The Way to Make Money Writing

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 13, 2007 In General 0 No tags 0

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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.”

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Los Angeles Security

By Scott McKenzie Posted on March 13, 2007 In General 0 No tags 0

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I was in Los Angeles last weekend for a meeting with my writing partner and some other Hollywood types. 

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