Miss Snark Nails the Inefficient
The gleefully venomous Miss Snark skewers the publishing industry’s more inefficient organizations today. One of my biggest pet peeves with the aspiring author gig is having to wait for months, even years, for certain journals, agents, and publishers to review your work. And that wait time is even worse when they demand exclusives or refuse…
continue readingHard to be Objective
I was going to try and somehow review, or at least discuss, Larry Brown’s essay The White Coon in the current issue of Field & Stream. This piece was discovered in one of the late author’s notebooks dated 1982. According to the notes, “it is the first true story he ever wrote.” The piece deals…
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A reader in Washington claimed the free Salinger books. Thanks to everyone who emailed me. Hope you all have a great weekend!
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I’m at risk of my bookshelves falling through the floor, so I’m back to cleaning out the collection somewhat. One of my book collecting strategies is to keep first editions, hardbacks, and other things that are difficult to find. And to thin out the collection, I tend to get rid of classic, but inexpensive, paperbacks that…
continue readingLiterary Nemesis
There’s that scene in Rocky III when the Italian Stallion hangs a photo of Clubber Lang. Every morning and every night, Rocky stares into the mirror and sees his enemy looking back at him. Now, you might not ever reach a triumphant moment on the literary beach, when you out-pace your teacher, and you might…
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