Blogs about: Tom Perrotta

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Supple Narrative3 comments

Cathryn wrote 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:             Does it seem like you can’t turn around lately without seeing Joe Meno’s nam … more →

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

unfettered angst at the wobbly coffee shop table

swashbuckled wrote 2 months ago: My head had been hurting on and off for a while after spending too many hours squinting at this tiny … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Coffee, Joshua Radin, angst

Little Children by Tom Perrotta2 comments

Jai Britton wrote 3 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 3 months ago: I had a lovely invitation last week from Writers Read  to share with their readers what I’ve … more →

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

The Wishbones1 comment

Peanut wrote 3 months ago: I went in the library last week looking for something that was like chick lit but with substance.  … more →

Tags: Job, everyday life

Little Children

Jordan Richardson wrote 4 months ago: One of the great gifts of the cinema is that of a fearless assessment of human motivations. Great f … more →

Tags: Drama, Trailers, 2006, Entertainment, Movies, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet, Little Children

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

Ryan Michael Williams wrote 4 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 5 months ago: a grown up book. … more →

Tags: Books, Little Children

Let The Games Begin: Wamfest 2009

wamfest wrote 5 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, Creative Writing, Dave Marsh, David Gates, David Grand, David Rivard, eugene mirman, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Poetry

Opium: 500 Words

brevity wrote 7 months 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, Opium, brief memoir

Beauty's Overrated

drawkward86 wrote 8 months ago: Little Children (2006) ★★★★1/2 Directed by Todd Field Written by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta Base … 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 9 months 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

Idolatry and Idiocy, part one.2 comments

Mahliska wrote 9 months ago: I do not know where to begin. I am (almost) at a loss for words. I suppose I must begin by saying ne … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, Editorial, Journal, Life, Literature, San Francisco, litquake, Tobias Wolff, Jane Ganahl

Governor Palin is NOT Asking For it! 1 comment

freemenow wrote 9 months ago: The New Agenda Announcement Action Alert A NEW NON-PARTISAN GROUP FOR WOMEN … more →

Tags: Sarah Palin, sexism, The New Agenda, Gov. Palin, Slate Magazine, Washington Post, "Sexy Puritans"

Men, Get Thee to the Kitchen (Part II)10 comments

Dollface wrote 9 months ago: So the other day I posted about the modern housewife and how pop culture and second wave feminism ha … more →

Tags: Family, Feminism, Relationships, Affair., Balance, Career, Catherine A. MacKinnon, Cheating, child bearing

Links: Ain't That America

Mark Athitakis wrote 9 months ago: The Nobel Prize’s literature judge says that American writers are too “insular.” B … more →

Tags: Dashiell Hammett, Junot Diaz, Nicholas Sparks, richard price

The Abstinence Teacher1 comment

Peanut wrote 9 months ago: The Abstinence Teacher was disappointing, which sucks because I was really looking forward to this … more →

The Abstinence Teacher

Lyrically Me wrote 10 months ago: “Which was why it was so galling to be ‘teaching’ today’s prepackaged lesson … more →

Tags: Life, Family, sex, Overshare, Random, The Abstinence Teacher, Abstinence, Sex Ed, Sex Education


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