Famed editor and creative writing teacher Gordon Lish is re-entering the classroom. Galley Cat has all the details here. One of my old teachers, Mark Richard, studied with Lish and he had hilarious stories of those workshops. So I’m sure this new round of classes will be fun and challenging.
Archive | 2008
An Open Letter from Joshua Henkin
Posted on 16 December 2008.
Joshua Henkin, author of Matrimony and Swimming Across the Hudson is an energetic and determined writer and lover of literary books. A creative writing teacher, he’s gracious with an interview, follow lit blogs and book review pages, and generally works hard to promote his own writing and that of others. This week brought news of [...]
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Mezrich Tackles Facebook Founders
Posted on 15 December 2008.
Ben Mezrich, author of Bringing Down the House and Rigged, is publishing a book on the creation of Facebook and the folks who made it happen. Interesting recap here.
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How Do You Find Something to Say?
Posted on 15 December 2008.
Everytime we struggle to sit down at the desk and write, everytime we find it hard to stare at a blank page, everytime it seems the laundry or mowing the grass is more pressing than writing, just think of those poor sportswriter souls who have to cover the Detroit Lions football team. As the team [...]
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Random Links
Posted on 10 December 2008.
It’s been a busy few days for me, but here are some interesting links I’ve stumbled across. Some relate to books, but some don’t. –Sports writer Mark Kriegel mentions an economic crisis idea from Tim Smith of theDaily News: Make the oil companies bail out the auto industry. Exxon Mobil announced profits of $14.83 billion [...]
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More on the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Meltdown
Posted on 05 December 2008.
Galley Cat has featured frequent updates and additional information on the virtual collapse of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt during the week. Today, the Cat provides insight from a senior staffer who was among the 200 people laid off this week. “The adult trade division has been crippled to the extent that books in production cannot be [...]
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Discipline and Hunger
Posted on 04 December 2008.
A couple of interesting links today, because I simply can’t bring myself to regurgitate any more details about the bloodletting that occurred in the publishing industry yesterday. First, JA Konrath comes through with a good post on discipline. Konrath always provides concrete, useful advice and this post is no different. “If you choose to write [...]
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A Year of Doing What You’re Supposed to Do
Posted on 03 December 2008.
I enjoy these books where someone “does something.” Even when they do it for a specified period of time, which occasionally makes it seem more like just a way to get a book deal as opposed to actually exploring something important in their life. I like the work of AJ Jacobs, I enjoyed Pete Jordan’s [...]
Best Book Designs of 2008
Posted on 02 December 2008.
The Book Design Review selected the best book covers from 2008. Check out the covers and see which ones you liked best. I believe my favorites from this list are Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me and Company of Liars.
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Publish Your Rejection Letters
Posted on 01 December 2008.
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, [...]
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Bozza and Lange Hit #1
Posted on 24 November 2008.
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.
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A Guitar Kind of Week
Posted on 21 November 2008.
This week has been more about strings than pages for me. So my focus has been on guitars as opposed to books recently. It started with a visit to Cleveland, Ohio to see an all-star tribute to guitar legend Les Paul. The culimination of a week’s worth of events comprising the American Music Masters series, [...]
National Book Award Winners Announced
Posted on 20 November 2008.
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 [...]
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Artie Lange is Too Fat to Fish
Posted on 17 November 2008.
I’ve had a super-busy handful of days recently. But I did manage to read Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, Bozza has become a friend over the time since I first interviewed him for Slushpile.net. So take these comments with a grain of salt [...]
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