My Man Billy Bob Starring with Brad
[Originally posted Friday, June 17, 2005] The Washington Post picked up a Reuters report that Billy Bob Thornton and Brad Pitt have signed on to perform in the flim version of Peace Like a River. The 2001 novel, written by Leif Enger, was a favorite of independent booksellers everywhere. Jim Harrison, Rick Bass, and Frank…
continue readingMacAdam/Cage Departures
[Originally posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005] As you know, MacAdam/Cage is one of Slushpile???s favorite publishers. So it???s a big deal to us that Publishers Weekly is reporting this afternoon that MC is losing two editors. Anika Streitfeld, the respected fiction editor at MacAdam/Cage who edited The Time Traveler???s Wife is moving to Random…
continue readingLish to Return
[Originally posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005] Publisher???s Weekly is reporting that seminal literary figure Gordon Lish is talking to publishers about a return to the editor???s desk. The article states ???Lish, who for much of the ???90???s was teaching at places like Columbia, has of late been fielding manuscripts from new and unknown literary…
continue readingIf You’ve Got the Money, Honey, I’ve Got the Time
[Originally posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005] I don???t know why that old Willie Nelson lyric popped into my head?ΔΆ probably because I wish I had the funds to attend this workshop. The fine folks at Tin House are putting on a great writer???s workshop from July 9th through the 16th. It looks like it???s…
continue readingBarksdale Funds Literacy Program
[Originally published on Tuesday, June 14, 2005] CNN has a nice report on the positive impact the Barksdale Reading Institute is having in Mississippi. Founded by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, the organization endeavors to improve the ???preliteracy??? skills for preschoolers and reading for children in kindergarten through the third grade. The institute provides books…
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