Month: June 2007

June 11, 2007

>Tinker Mountain: Day 1

>Here I am at the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop. We all arrived here Sunday evening and had initial sessions with our groups to trade…
June 10, 2007

>ASC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

>That certainly was a fun night at the theater. Lately, all the performances I’ve been to at the Blackfriars Playhouse have been well-attended (it’s…
June 10, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Roy Spivey" by Miranda July

>I am not familiar with Miranda July’s work except for her hilarious website promoting her new book. Certainly this story is clever, especially in…
June 10, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Wildwood" by Junot Diaz

>No lack of conflict here. Lola is the rebellious teenaged daughter of a single Dominican mother in New Jersey. They’re both hard to get…
June 9, 2007

>Bits of good news

>One nice thing that happened this week was the arrival of my contributor copies of The Ledge, No. 30, including my story “Saving Melissa.”…
June 9, 2007

>Blogging-lite

>It’s been a little slow this week, hasn’t it? Still recovering from Short Story Month, maybe? Spending too much time talking about politics? Getting…
June 7, 2007

>Mistake Number 12

>I can’t help feel that Bickham is a bit rigid in the way he states this rule. On the other hand, until a writer…
June 6, 2007

>The Thinking Blogger Award

>Do Bloggers think? Or do they provoke thought? Or is it both? I’m grateful to Kelly Spitzer for thinking of me here at Perpetual…
June 6, 2007

>Orange Prize

>The winner of the Orange Prize has been announced: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for Half of a Yellow Sun. I’ve got this and have been…
June 5, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Faith" by William Trevor

>Bartholomew and Hester are unmarried siblings who move to a village together when Bartholomew, a Church of Ireland vicar, takes over a small abandoned…
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