radar love: a night of music & lit to benefit carole and mitzi Thursday, August 24th, 2006, 8pm – 11pm, Varnish Fine Art Gallery Carole and Mitzi, aka Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen, are shooting a follow-up to their smash short film, Diving for Pearls. Come help them raise some dough! Music and literature hosted by Michelle Tea, featuring Joan Jett Blakk, Fear of the Outdoors, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Zoey Kroll, Luna Maia, Michelle Richmond, Shauna Rogan, Sara Seinberg, Chelsea Star, Horehound Stillpoint, with a special appearance by Mitzi and Carole and a special screening of Diving for Pearls....
Monthly Archives: August 2006
after the mfa blog
Gordon Hurd, a recent graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco, has an interesting new blog called After the MFA. His about page describes After the MFA as a blog about “writing good stories, teaching good writing, reading good books, and having good times.”Early offerings include an interview with Lewis Buzbee, author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Plus: if you haven’t already checked out Technorati, the blog-lover’s answer to Google, you should! Technorati Profile
looking forward to…
Two if By Sea, the debut story collection by Anne-E. Wood, forthcoming from Fourteen Hills Press. Anne-E. is one of the most talented writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, and this collection of 20 plus stories promises to knock your hot little socks off. And Smonk, by Tom Franklin, just out from William Morrow. Fans of the Southern gothic who are not averse to gore will likely enjoy this bloody romp set in small town Alabama. Spend a night alone with Deadwood reruns, a bottle of whiskey, and this book, and your dreams just might be...
it ain’t all good
John McNally, author of America’s Report Card, has included on his website some plainspoken advice for writers which happens to ring true: You need to learn why one book is great and why another one is crappy, and you need to understand why IT’S NOT ALL SUBJECTIVE! I grow tired of aspiring writers who buy into the myth that everything having to do with writing is all opinion, so let me set the record straight: There are standards for the craft of writing, and some writing does indeed blow, and it’s NOT just a matter of opinion. To this...
radar love: a night of music & lit to benefit carole and mitzi
Thursday, August 24th, 2006, 8pm – 11pm, Varnish Fine Art Gallery Carole and Mitzi, aka Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen, are shooting a follow-up to their smash short film, Diving for Pearls. Come help them raise some dough! Music and literature hosted by Michelle Tea, featuring Joan Jett Blakk, Fear of the Outdoors, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Zoey Kroll, Luna Maia, Michelle Richmond, Shauna Rogan, Sara Seinberg, Chelsea Star, Horehound Stillpoint, with a special appearance by Mitzi and Carole and a special screening of Diving for Pearls. Admission: $6
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
