Month: September 2007

September 30, 2007

>James River Writers Conference Recap

>I attended both days of the James River Writers Conference 2007 in Richmond this weekend. The program was all in the beautiful Library of…
September 27, 2007

>James River Writers

>It’s been a hectic week for me, with lots of end-of-the-month deadlines looming. Also, I’m heading down to Richmond early Friday for the James…
September 26, 2007

>Creative Writing Programs

>The ever-useful New Pages has recently introduced a Creative Writing Program Guide that looks pretty comprehensive. There’s little evaluation of the programs, but it…
September 23, 2007

>The New Yorker: "The Maserati Years" by Maxim Biller

>Tom is an aging, difficult actor working in Berlin and he’s also an inconsiderate lover who has been left a message by his girlfriend…
September 22, 2007

>Seeing your own work

>It’s a good day when a magazine containing your own work arrives in the mail. It happened twice today. The Spring/Summer 2007 issue of…
September 22, 2007

>Scott Loring Sanders: The Hanging Woods

>I noticed on Publishers’ Marketplace this morning that my friend Scott Loring Sanders (not to be confused with Scott Russell Sanders) has sold his…
September 19, 2007

>Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

>Last night I saw the American Shakespeare Center’s production of Antony & Cleopatra at the Blackfriars Playhouse. The house was surprisingly full for a…
September 19, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Mr. Bones" by Paul Theroux

>This is a retrospective story about the narrator’s family in the fifties. It’s a family that will look familiar to a lot of people,…
September 18, 2007

>Writers’ Resource: QueryTracker

>Last week I wrote about LitMatch, a new-to-me service along the lines of AgentQuery, and now thanks to a comment left on that post,…
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