Monthly Archives: January 2006

ongoing costs of war

January 31, 2006
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An article today in the New York Times addresses the issue of “complex casualties,” the mentally and physically debilitating wounds affecting a large percentage of the 16,000 US soldiers wounded in Iraq: To describe the maimed survivors of this ugly new war, a graceless new word, polytrauma, has entered the medical lexicon. Each soldier arriving at Tampa’s Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, inside the giant veterans hospital, brings a whole world of injury. The typical patient, Dr. Scott said, has head injuries, vision and hearing loss, nerve damage, multiple bone fractures, unhealed body wounds, infections and emotional or behavioral problems. Some...

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San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards

January 31, 2006
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Three prizes of $2,000 each are given annually to writers between 20 and 35 years of age for works-in-progress. The Joseph Henry Jackson Award is given for a work of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Applicants must be residents of northern California or Nevada for at least three consecutive years prior to the deadline. The Mary Tanenbaum Award has the same residency requirements as the Jackson Award, but is awarded only for a work of creative nonfiction. The James D. Phelan Award is given for a work of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction by a native of California. For...

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lit contest week!

January 30, 2006
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I’ll be highlighting a new lit contest each day this week. For starters, there’s the Lamar York Prize for Creative Nonfiction. A prize of $1,000 and publication in Chattahoochee Review is given annually for a creative essay. All entries will be considered for publication. Submit an essay of up to 5,000 words with a $10 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to Chattahoochee Review, by January 31. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. Chattahoochee Review, Lamar York Prize, Georgia Perimeter College, 2101 Womack Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338-4497. Marc Fitten, Editor. plus, how’s this...

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bad reporter takes on the bad boys (& girl) of lit

January 27, 2006
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Bad Reporter is where I get my morning giggles. Here, Don Asmussen takes on Leroy & Frey: “Bush: Both theories of James Frey’s past should be taught.” Although, in Laura Albert’s defense, I am of the mind that her literary hoax was just that–a well-conceived hoax–not really comparable to James Frey’s bestselling act of deception. Leroy’s books were all presented as fiction–sure, autobiographical fiction, but fiction nonetheless–while Frey claimed to have written a memoir.

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in the queue

January 25, 2006
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A quick trip to Green Apple yesterday en route to my new doctor (glory be! now that I’ve finally, at long last, abandoned Kaiser as my HMO, which, despite all those television ads so seductively narrated by Allison Janney, is absolutely incompetent, I have discovered that it is actually possible to call one’s physician’s office and speak with someone in the office, rather than being redirected to a secretary in Sacramento, and, furthermore, it is also possible to get an appointment with one’s own physician, and to do all of this without having to recite your phone number, social...

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