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Monthly Archives: December 2005
doing time
Remember that piece in Harper’s a few months back wherein Lynn Freed compares teaching creative writing to suffering in a gulag? Did it seem a bit over-the-top? From the mind of Mark Pritchard, author of Too Beautiful and Other Stories and How I Adore You, comes a hilarious spoof, The Secret Diary of a Prisoner in the Creative Writing Gulag. Here’s a sample entry: October 5, 1983 I try to begin each class with a bit of Proust, Stendahl, or Trollope. One of the students snickered every time I said “Trollope;” he thought I meant a whore. Faced with...
fusion city!
Wondering what to do with your Monday night? Join me at San Francisco’s Edinburgh Castle Pub. Kate Braverman is hosting a new series billed as a “literary talk show,” and this is the second event in the series. We’ll sort of be talking about first novels, but with Kate at the helm, anything could happen. In the lineup: Kim Addonizio, Katia Noyes, Charlie Anders, and yours truly. Also on the ticket: a performance by Daphne Gottlieb. 950 Geary, 7:00 p.m.
on the wrong side of history
from AP: More than 150 nations agreed Saturday to launch formal talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases — talks that will exclude an unwilling United States. For its part the Bush administration, which rejects the emissions cutbacks of the current Kyoto Protocol, accepted only a watered-down proposal to enter an exploratory global “dialogue” on future steps to combat climate change. That proposal specifically rules out “negotiations leading to new commitments.”
booknote from LBL: What Remains
Lauren Baratz Logsted here again, with talk of the mysterious Apache Woman What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love, Carole Radziwill. This book is a good companion piece to Joan Didion’s National Book Award winner, The Year of Magical Thinking. Ms. Radziwill is the wife of the late Anthony Radziwill, who died after a long battle with cancer in 1999. His death was the predictable one. What was less predictable was that his cousin, for whom he was best man and who was his best man at their respective weddings, a man by the name of John...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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