Deadline: November 30. Winners announced Dec. 31. Details at Storyquarterly. First Prize $2,500, Second Prize $1,500, Third Prize $750. Also, narrative magazine is now accepting audio recordings of short-short stories, up to five minutes in length. Details on their submissions page. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see audio submission guidelines.)
Via Publishers Lunch, here’s an excerpt from Former Bush White House press spokesman Scott McLellan’s forthcoming book, WHAT HAPPENED: Inside the Bush White House and What’s Wrong with Washington. The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White...
These images from a Japanese satellite, the Kayaga Probe, are the first high-definition images of Earth rising above the moon’s horizon. That’s Antarctica at the top, Australia in light brown. The lower right is the Middle East. From the moon, it all looks so beautiful. No inkling of this morning’searthquake in Chile, oil spills in the Black Sea and the San Francisco Bay, the recent fires in Southern California, the war in the Middle East, the melting glaciers, the global saber-rattling. Is this how future generations will greet the day? . See the video of the earth rising here....
39-year-old Garrett Lisi, who holds a doctorate from UC San Diego, divides his time between surfing in Hawaii and snowboarding in Tahoe. Oh, and figuring out a unified theory of the universe. From the Telegraph: The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything”… He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a “radical new explanation” for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong...
Via Deadline Hollywood Daily, Hollywood blogger Brian offers this music mix to support the WGA strike. Of course, if you do support the strike, you’ll be buying the songs (Brian’s blog has Amazon links to each song), not borrowing them or burning them to CDs, which you then distribute to your like-minded friends. Speaking of mixed tapes, Jill McCorkle did it beautifully in Final Vinyl Days in 1998, a couple of years before High Fidelity memorialized mixed tape culture for the movie-going masses. But Nick Hornby’s novel, on which the movie was based, came out in 1995.
