Very Cool Website for Lethem
I stumbled across this very cool website while reading Maud Newton’s great blog, which you can check out here. Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn among others, has a very cool website that provides hours of fun. Just keep reloading the main page and see how many times it changes…
continue readingIf You’re a Fugitive, Isn’t Your Reputation Already In Shambles?
Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski has been allowed to testify via live video link in his libel case against Vanity Fair. Polanski is now 71 and lives in France, a fugitive from American justice, having fled the country after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Vanity Fair is sold in…
continue readingGreat Line
I came across a great line in Wayne Koestenbaum???s essay My 80???s: ???The world was doing it???s best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.???
continue readingWriterisms to Avoid
You all don’t need this, but its here, just to say we told you so. Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find ’em, root ’em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush. am, is, are, was, were, being, be, been ?Ķ combined with “by” or with “by ?Ķ someone” implied…
continue readingSome Art School/Workshop Teacher Should’ve Put a Stop to this Nonsense Long Ago
In 1994, musician Todd Snider skewered the grunge rock movement with his satire Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues. The song made fun of the whole alternative scene where all you had to do was buy a flannel shirt, let the hair dangle down in your eyes, and act depressed and you’d make a million dollars.…
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