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“Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything…”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever… more →
Wassup Rockers
The Great Gatsby Trailer
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wrote 1 day ago: Call me conflicted. Go ahead, do it! I am openly ambiguous about F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer, ye … more →
Agatha Christie: Surfin' Bird
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wrote 1 day ago: Agatha Christie in Hawaii, 1922 (Photo courtesy of Retronaut.co) … more →
Daily Diversion #6: Hunter S. Thompson Wants You....to Drink
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wrote 2 weeks ago: We recently checked out the hot new taco/tequila/whiskey place in an “up-and-coming” par … more →
Of Katherine Mansfield and Raindrops on My Window Pane: or, Why I Write* (Part I)
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Part I-1919 It is autumn and a wan and anxious woman is staring out the parlor window of her rented … more →
A Triptych of Dead Writers with a Triptych of Epic Love Letters
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wrote 1 month ago: I said I was going to draw a portrait of Kafka and pair it with a love letter, but decided that it w … more →
[From My Archives]* On Shaw, or How a Dead Playwright Transformed My Adolescence and Altered My Life
wrote 2 months ago: When I set out to do this essay, I realized that writing about George Bernard Shaw would be rather l … more →
4:18 AM
wrote 2 months ago: I cannot sleep, I dare not dream, One last cig, A gulp of whiskey Am I blind or do I see true, There … more →
Dickens treat goes wrong...
wrote 3 months ago: Eminent child psychologist Sir Ruprecht Scheidt has apologised for advice to teachers in his latest … more →
Voices from the Grave-Some Words of Introduction
wrote 4 months ago: Reading is thought of as a silent pursuit, a psychic communion between two intellects and imaginatio … more →
Arthur Rimbaud: A Tribute
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wrote 7 months ago: by: Mariann Devlin Very few of us can say that we completed our life’s work between the ages o … more →
Literary Graveyard: Which Cemetery is the Most Literary?
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wrote 8 months ago: Found this on Twitter. What an interesting article. I have an inexplicable attraction to cemeteries. … more →
Virginia Woolf's Bust (and Other Author Gravesites)
wrote 10 months ago: Great post today at Page Pulp featuring author gravesites. Check it out — Edmund Spenser, Shak … more →
Writers Have a Hidden Super-Power
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wrote 1 year ago: I am here to tell you a secret: Do you know you carry a hidden Super-Power underneath your cloak of … more →
DEAD WRITERS' CORNER: I have nothing to declare but this luggage...
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wrote 1 year ago: Oscar Wilde (16 Oct 1854 – 30 Nov 1900) Good afternoon. I died today. Tea? It was in a small room in … more →
Writing and Dying
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wrote 1 year ago: Say whatever you want about writers (particularly us who make a living out of this gig). About us be … more →
Dear Brewing Hurricane...Please Take Your Business Elsewhere
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wrote 1 year ago: On the cusp of my much anticipated move to Miami this weekend, I am thrilled to see a tropical distu … more →
"Don't Ever Tell Anybody Anything..."
wrote 2 years ago: “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the … more →
Stored Transmissions from a Slower World
wrote 2 years ago: Getting a hell of a lot of press these days, and rightly so, is an excellent blog called Letters of … more →
Book(list)keeping.
wrote 2 years ago: I was thinking about the stuff I read this year, and I only came up with the following underwhelming … more →
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