Have just been playing around with Gnooks: Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map. of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors. It’s an interesting concept, but it seems to be just another take on the Amazon referral engine.
This is an image from five years ago this October. I was climbing one of the dunes in the Great Sand Dunes National Park (you didn’t know there were sand dunes in Colorado, did you? They are in the valley of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and they are spectacular). We got to the top, caught our breath, looked around and then rolled and … Read More up
Just finished reading the Spring 2006 issue of The Kenyon Review. There was much remarkable writing within the pages, but the piece that cut right through my brain was the excerpt from Brad Kessler‘s Birds in Fall (which is a book I feel I now must get), which starts ominously–warning the reader that there will be an “ordeal” on this seemingly normal plane ride. … Read More The Kenyon Review–Spring 2006
Susan DiPlacido does it again. Yup. She nails last night’s American Idol: We learned this week that as far as celebrity mentors go, dead men come off best because we don’t compare their bad plastic surgery. We learned that you don’t willy-nilly try to bastardize a legendary band’s arrangements, even if they’re shrooming. We learned that Paula’s not shrooming, she’s just her garden-variety drunk … Read More Susan DiPlacido knows her idol when she sees it
Katrina Denza has another great Lit Mag Roundup available at MoorishGirl–this time Kat looks at Subtropics, Bellevue Literary Review, and Passages North.
Maria Flook‘s Lux is an offbeat novel, which I enjoyed quite a lot. One part mystery, one part fairy tale, and one part nod to Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, this book draws the reader immediately into the wild and beautiful world of life on the fringes of Cape Cod. At the core of this book is instinct–the good and the bad: That … Read More Lux, by Maria Flook
Roger Morris’s book Taking Comfort has just been published with the Macmillan New Writing initiative. Here’re some photos from the release party. Congratulations, Roger!
Nasal weirdness. So, I appear to have seasonal allergies, which have gotten worse as I have aged. I say “appear to” because I have not been officially diagnosed (other than as having hay fever once when I was a child) but all of the signs are there. To counter these allergies for the past couple of years I’ve been using Zicam allergy relief. It … Read More today’s feeling
VOTE for your favorite of the Top Ten Million Writers stories (I voted already and I can’t tell you which story I voted for because it’s a secret but here’s a hint: The author’s name is Pia Ehrhardt and she is really cool and talented and kind and I like her.)
Hungover, but happy. My best friend and her husband (who is also my friend) are visiting. We have not seen each other in two years and, as usual, it is like we have never been apart. This did not stop me, however, from consuming far too much wine last night. While my head aches, my heart is full. In other good news, check out … Read More today’s feeling
I was chosen as a finalist in The Journal’s William Allen Creative Nonfiction contest, which is very nice news, indeed! Congratulations to the winner Julie Huynh Wan. Her essay sounds terrific.
I learned to waterski when I was fifteen and have loved it ever since, though I rarely have a chance to do it anymore. What you learn quickly is that you must rely on the strength of your arms to first pull you up out of the water, and then to hold you up once you’re standing. It’s not your legs as you might … Read More today’s feeling
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