Vance will not run for Senate
On Friday, multiple outlets reported that author J.D. Vance had announced that he would not run for Senate in Ohio. As just one example, here is the way that CNN covered the writer’s statement. Propelled by the success of his book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis, Vance became…
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A landslide of Lansdale advice
Author Joe R. Lansdale got 2018 off to a rousing start with a landslide of writing advice on his social media pages. For example, here was an entry on January 5: “Waiting on inspiration may be the worst idea of all time, at least from my perspective. You are your own inspiration. It isn’t coming…
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The Ice Wagon’s Wheels Come Off: Mavis Gallant and Sadia Shepard in The New Yorker
Yesterday I learned that an short story featured in the January 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker??Foreign-Returned? by Sadia Shepard?bore a more than casual resemblance to the late Mavis Gallant?s story, ?The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street.? (Gallant?s story was also originally published in a 1963 issue of The New Yorker.) Francine Prose,…
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So what’s Behind the Attic Wall?
Continuing my reviews of books with the word ?Attic? in the title is ?Behind the Attic Wall,? a YA novel that could not be more different from ?Flowers in the Attic,? but at the same time left such an impression on me that for years I considered it one of my favorites, even after I?d…
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How the Milo edits benefit us all
The lawsuit that Milo Yiannopolous filed against Simon & Schuster is available for viewing, which means you can read his book without purchasing it, in case you’re interested but don’t want to contribute to his cause. Click here to see the exhibits. Publishing industry observers have focused on editor Mitchell Ivers’ more aggressive comments about…
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