Monthly Archives: September 2006

Tonight: 9/11 Memorial Reading

September 11, 2006
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Tonight: 9/11 Memorial Reading

The Progressive Reading Series When: Monday, September 11, 7pm Where: The Makeout Room – 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, 415-647-2888 Price: $10-20 sliding scale Featuring: Celebrated writer Joyce Maynard will read from The Usual Rules , a novel about a 13-year-old girl who loses her mother in the World Trade Center attack, and how she learns to cope with grief and adapt to the new world after 9/11. Geoffrey Nunberg is a professor at UC Berkeley and researcher at Stanford’s Center for the Study of Language and Information, as well as a frequent contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air ....

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good advice from Frederick Barthelme

September 8, 2006
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Frederick Barthelme’s The 39 Steps: A Primer on Story Writing, begins: Step one in the great enterprise of a new and preferable you in the house of fiction is: Mean less. That is, don’t mean so much. Make up a story, screw around with it, paste junk on it, needle the characters, make them say queer stuff, go bad places, insert new people at inopportune moments, do some drive-bys. Make it up, please. Expect more of the same plainspoken, excellent advice in the following 38 steps, which range from the enigmatic–#9)Grace Slick (yes, people, that’s the entire entry for...

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chicago tribune literary prizes announced

September 7, 2006
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The winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement is Joyce Carol Oates. Louise Erdrich has won the Heartland Prize for fiction, and the Heartland Prize for nonfiction goes to Taylor Branch.

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a brief history of my dream job

September 7, 2006
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This from AP: “Renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking has announced he is looking for a graduate student to work for him for one to two years…The candidate can earn about £23,500 ($44,300) and would likely join Hawking on his many travels abroad, according to a job posting on the university’s Web site. Planning lectures, maintaining computer, answering public inquiries and helping with scientific papers are a few of the responsibilities.” How many entry-level positions allow you to spend a couple of years in the presence of greatness? Ah, if only I were younger and smarter. The exercise:...

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