Abducted journalist Carroll freed: American hostage Jill Carroll, the freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Baghdad January 7, has been released, U.S. law enforcement officials and The Christian Science Monitor said Thursday.
If you don’t read Katrina Denza’s Lit Mag Roundup 2.0 over at MoorishGirl then you are missing out big time. Kat is an excellent reader and she has great insights into the journals she’s read. Go on and read it.
The Barcelona Review issue #52 is live and featuring work from a couple of my pals: Chasing Angela, by Terry DeHart Old Maids, by Steven Gullion
Today I offer you the hilarious and honest, Katie Weekley: Cheeseskate
In case you didn’t already know, Ellen Meister‘s book, Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA, is red hot. I’ve already ordered my copy and am counting the days until it arrives when it is released in August ’06. This book is so hot, in fact, that she’s already making the news.Check out this item from today’s New York Daily News: The desperate housewives of … Read More Ellen Meister (and George Clooney) in today’s New York Daily News
Issue #71 of One Story is an excellent story–Good Luck, written by Kate Walbert. At it’s core this is a love story, or a falling out of romantic love and into some other form of love story. Basically, it is a story of independence–Bill’s from the physical cage of his POW existence and Evelyn’s from living all their married life in her husband’s intellectual … Read More Good Luck, by Kate Walbert
Here is an article that everyone should consider reading (you’ll have to go through a brief advertisement to read the article in its entirety)–Be Worried. Be Very Worried.: The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis will hit so soon—and what we can do about it.
Great news for a phenomenal writer and friend, Jordan Rosenfeld. Writer’s Digest Books has accepted her book proposal for Master the Scene for publication in Fall, 2007, and will be included as a feature in their Book Club. Way to go, Jordan! We all knew it was only a matter of time.
According to this photo taken seconds ago, Darby likes the manuscript I’m editing so much that he is now using it as a pillow. Either that or it’s putting him to sleep. Perhaps he’s trying to tell me is to stop obsessing and take him for a walk? Okay. I can take a hint.
Have you been keeping up with Mark Pritchard’s What Are You Working on series? If not, you’ve been missing out. This week Mark interviews Dashka Slater, a talented woman who was in the same workshop group as Mark and me last year at Squaw Valley. Dashka workshopped a story that took my breath away. It was funny, heartbreaking, and brutally honest. I loved it. … Read More read it
Yesterday, waiting at a red light I became transfixed with this: 2TH&AIL 2TH? Okay. Tooth. &AIL? AndAIL. Oh, AND NAIL. Tooth and Nail Yeah, okay. Whatever. You’re really clever, Bucky, but what is this supposed to tell me about you and your Camry? What? That’s where you’ve lost me.
Check it out–the issue of SmokeLong Quarterly I guest edited received 134644 total page views. How cool is that? You GO, Smokelong!
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