August 2011
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Running and Writing
More Buzz About the Book (indirectly) First came the invitation to write a guest blog for Nathan Bransford’s Forums. Leaping at the chance to rework ideas from his investigation of the links between exercise and art, Eric unearthed his brilliantly titled “Pumping Irony,” from the hundreds of magazine articles he’s written over the years, tracked down [...]
In Celebration of National Book Week
It’s National Book Week. The rules: grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence (If you’re on Facebook, post this as your status). Don’t mention the book. Copy the rules into your status. Our entry: “And I think literature provided just that in a way . . . it [...]
An Apology
By Ross Howell Ross read this piece at the open mic night at The Mill in Iowa City during the Iowa Writers’ Workshop 75th Anniverary Reunion. It got quite a few laughs. My name is Ross Howell. I was a student in the Writer’s Workshop from 1975 to 1978. I’m here this evening to apologize. One [...]
Allan Gurganus Reads His New Work
The Erotic History of a Southern Baptist Church is the second, starting with Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All in Allan’s Falls Trilogy. Allan has been described as “the rightful heir to Faulkner and Welty,” and “one of our essential comic writers.” Literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. once declared, “Gurganus can do anything he likes as [...]
Books by Rosalyn Drexler’s Bed
Rosalyn‘s response to another writer’s bedside reading report: Books by the bed? Not possible. Only a small table with a small fan on it. Also no light in there. Just a small lamp behind the bookcase. However, I am reading Edmund Wilson’s The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, and, The Thirties. Marvelous [...]
Courting the Muse
By Rosalyn Drexler Right now I want to stay here at the computer, to write, but there are other things I must do. Have keys made to supplant my husband Sherman’s lost keys. Go to the bank to see what they offer seniors. Do not like the bank I now do business with. Go to [...]
Kirkus, Baby!
We’re a featured Kirkus Reviews nonfiction post. To all the struggling writers out there who relentlessly confront the blank page, not knowing when—never say IF—their efforts will be rewarded, we’re here to say stay the course. Dreams do come true; sometimes it just takes awhile. There are a few more pubs on the bucket list. We’ll [...]
August Calendar
Recent news from Allan Gurganus includes writing and narrating a BBC 4 documentary concerning the poetry of the American Civil War, “A House Divided.” An essay on Ross McIlwee’s documentary “Sherman’s March” appears in ”The Greatest Southern Film” in the August issue of Southern Cultures magazine. Allan recalls his first writing teacher in the film [...]
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