A Guitar Kind of Week
This week has been more about strings than pages for me. So my focus has been on guitars as opposed to books recently. It started with a visit to Cleveland, Ohio to see an all-star tribute to guitar legend Les Paul. The culimination of a week’s worth of events comprising the American Music Masters series,…
continue readingNational Book Award Winners Announced
The National Book Awards were handed out last night. Here are the winners: Fiction: Peter Matthiessen for Shadow Country Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello Poetry: Mark Doty for Fire to Fire Young People’s Literature: Judy Blundell for What I Saw and How I Lied Check out Galley Cat and Ed’s Reluctant Habits…
continue readingArtie Lange is Too Fat to Fish
I’ve had a super-busy handful of days recently. But I did manage to read Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, Bozza has become a friend over the time since I first interviewed him for Slushpile.net. So take these comments with a grain of salt…
continue readingFreelancer Collection Attempts
Ed has an article about the difficulties collecting payment for freelance writing. In this case, it looks like it might work out well in the end. But the experience is still infuriating. The difficult economic times are putting a toll on everyone. But freelancers getting stiffed isn’t a recent phenomenon. Even during the good times,…
continue readingHannah Named USA Fellow
I spent the last several days in a hole of depression caused by my failure to mount a successful write-in campaign for Barry Hannah to become president. But then I saw this news item that brightened my mood a bit. I love it when Hannah says he’s going to use the grant money “to live.”
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