Registration for the 2010 Taos Summer Writers Conference is now 0pen.
flash fiction?
Cupcakes by Tim; photo by Michele.
Last class of the semester.
Reading at Luna Star Cafe on Monday the seventh at five.
775 NE 125th St. N. Miami. Cash bar!
too much happiness
Alice Munro's new collection is now on sale. Reviews: Kansas City Star; New York Times; National Post; Los Angeles Times.
iron jesus
From the Freezer Jesus Files: Woman in Methuen, Mass., sees Jesus on her iron. Includes video and slide show of other miraculous apparitions. (Thanks to Dick in Irvine, Mary in Cambridge, and Steve in Boston)
taos '10
The faculty list for the 2010 Taos Summer Writers Conference has been posted. Registration begins on December 1st. Here's a link to the web site where you'll be able to get all the info you need in few days.
"Those people in [Alcoholics Anonymous] in the late 40's and early 50's can be said to have reinvented American narrative style. All the terrible, terrible things that had ever happened to them just made for a great pitch." Carolyn See
Jonathan Yardley on Ben Yagoda and the memoir craze.
lies, damn lies
Wonderful two-part essay by Errol Morris on lying and deceit. Includes a conversation with the remarkable sleight-of-hand magician Ricky Jay. Here's Part 2.
“You wouldn’t want to live in a world where you can’t be conned, because if you were, you would be living in a world with no trust. That’s the price you pay for trust, is being conned.” --Ricky Jay
dead caulfields
With sister Doris in Miami Beach.
Here's a valuable web site for obsessive Salinger fans which includes uncollected stories and discussions of unpublished stories.
adoption day
The newest member of our family, Avah, signs her adoption papers.
cormac mccarthy
Wall Street Journal interview.
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
unfriend
The OED's Words of the Year, 2009.
while researching a horror story
Friday Night Writer Neil Crabtree has a story in the latest Bewildering Stories.
lehane on fiu
Dennis will be at the Miami Book Fair this weekend promoting Akashic Books' Boston Noir.
from the freezer jesus files
Maybe this guy was trying too hard. God doesn't like a liar. (thanks to Joe in Cheese and Richard in Coral Springs)
word of the day
We've all been there. Mamihlapinatapai
in blogs
Discursus offers thoughts on Johnny Too Bad and From Dreams quotes The Lie That tells a Truth. And so does Leslie's Weekly Writing Exercises.