Publish Your Rejection Letters
Literary Rejections on Display posted this request for submissions from Bill Shapiro. Last year, Shapiro published Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See and now he’s working on a book about our favorite thing: rejection letters. As LROD points out, Shapiro’s work in progress will be published by Random House,…
continue readingBozza and Lange Hit #1
I had gotten a tip about this midweek, but I waited for official confirmation before posting anything… Too Fat to Fish entered the bestseller list at number one this past weekend. That’s quite an accomplishment and what a way to kick of a holiday week. Congratulations, Artie and Anthony.
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 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.”
continue reading2nd Brocabulary Giveaway
The signed copy of Daniel Maurer’s Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk is going to a creative reader in Illinois. Thanks for playing!
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