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Book Readings: Do I get my book signed?

Amy Steele wrote 1 week ago: My friend Adam is a huge fan of Jonathan Safran Foer who is reading from Eating Animals tonight for … more →

Tags: Books, book signing, Dick Lehr, Elinor Lipman, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Gaitskill

Links: From a Flask With Unknown Contents2 comments

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 weeks ago: Whiting Award winner Adam Johnson says the aspiring writers in his classes these days are being a li … more →

Tags: adam johnson, Cormac Mccarthy, Daniel Alarcon, Ernest Hemingway, Judy Blume, Shanthi Sekaran, Tobias Wolff, William Faulkner

Tom Perrotta, The Abstinence Teacher (2007)4 comments

smithereens wrote 1 month ago: My love affair with Tom Perrotta’s… books (no spicy revelation here) goes back to the movie Little C … more →

Tags: 21C, American

The Wishbones - A Book Review4 comments

Nish wrote 1 month ago: The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta I first heard of Tom Perrotta when I saw the movie Election (loved the … more →

Tags: Books, election, New Jersey, Reese Witherspoon, The Wishbones

Q&A with Graphic Designer Julie Metz: Judging a Book by its Cover, Part 17 comments

bakerkline wrote 2 months ago: The inside scoop on what makes a successful book cover – and why it matters. Several weeks ago I wro … more →

Tags: The Writing Biz, Book covers, Creative Process, Design, Inspiration, julie metz, Little Children, perfection, The Poisonwood Bible

F.I.L.M. of the Week (August 21, 2009)3 comments

Marshall wrote 3 months ago: The new feature that I hyped up (OK, I briefly mentioned in a post that no one read) is here!  The F … more →

Tags: Movie Reviews, Mini-Reviews, features, F.I.L.M. of the Week, Oscars, Little Children, Todd Field, Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson

Supple Narrative3 comments

Cathryn wrote 5 months ago: In my on-going pursuit of seeing how supple narration is achieved by writers who I admire, revere an … more →

Tags: writing, Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Narration, The Abstinence Teacher, Analytical

The Great Perhaps

Weston Cutter wrote 5 months ago:             Does it seem like you can’t turn around lately without seeing Joe Meno’s nam … more →

Tags: Joe Meno, the great perhaps, Hairstyles of the Damned

unfettered angst at the wobbly coffee shop table

swashbuckled wrote 6 months ago: My head had been hurting on and off for a while after spending too many hours squinting at this tiny … more →

Tags: Personal, Real Life, Coffee, Joshua Radin, angst

Little Children by Tom Perrotta2 comments

Jai Britton wrote 8 months ago: So after the anger-inducing, depression-mongering Anne Sexton biography, I’m taking a stab at … more →

Tags: now reading, Little Children, anne sexton biography, Books I'm Reading

What writers read

rosiemolinary wrote 8 months ago: I had a lovely invitation last week from Writers Read  to share with their readers what I’ve b … more →

Tags: The Process, Book Club, Books, Curtis Sittenfeld, Fiction, John Kennedy Toole, Reading, Reading Lists

The Wishbones1 comment

Peanut wrote 8 months ago: I went in the library last week looking for something that was like chick lit but with substance.  I … more →

Tags: Job, everyday life

Little Children

Jordan Richardson wrote 8 months ago: One of the great gifts of the cinema is that of a fearless assessment of human motivations. Great fi … more →

Tags: 2006, Drama, Entertainment, Movies, Trailers, Gregg Edelman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jennifer Connelly, Kate Winslet

Tom Perrotta's pessmistic take on the cultural status of books1 comment

Ryan Michael Williams wrote 9 months ago: As far as contemporary fiction writers go, Tom Perrotta is extremely famous. He’s written seve … more →

Tags: Books, Fiction, cultural value of literature

little children

kittykittykitty wrote 9 months ago: a grown up book. … more →

Tags: Books, Little Children

Let The Games Begin: Wamfest 2009

wamfest wrote 9 months ago: Legendary Critic and Biographer Dave Marsh and John Wesley Harding/Wesley Stace discuss "The Wo … more →

Tags: Poetry and Music Festival. Creative Writing. Songwrit, Rosanne Cash, Dave Marsh, eugene mirman, Rick Moody, Thomas E. Kennedy, David Grand, David Gates, Poetry

Opium: 500 Words

brevity wrote 1 year ago: Opium’s 500-Word Memoir Contest–judged by author and Oscar-nominee Tom Perrotta. The rul … more →

Tags: Call for Submissions, Creative Nonfiction, memoir, Online Journals, brief memoir, Opium

Beauty's Overrated

drawkward86 wrote 1 year ago: Little Children (2006) ★★★★1/2 Directed by Todd Field Written by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta Based … more →

Tags: Drama, film, Marital Drama, psychological drama, 2006, Todd Field, Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly

Christian Nymphos (Things That Hurt)1 comment

honeythief wrote 1 year ago: I think this is going to be a regular section here in my anonymous blog: Things that hurt. I feel th … more →

Tags: things that hurt, TTH, gone-away world, Nick Harkaway, Jerry Fallwell, Lynchburg


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