November 2011
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Life and Lit in the Neon
For fans of alliteration—and who isn’t?—we offer a title that once would have been an oxymoron, but no more: ”Literary Las Vegas.” This Las Vegas Review-Journal article spotlights “Eric Olsen, Glenn Schaeffer and more,” so of course we think it’s great, even though the title doesn’t take full advantage of its potential. But LV has a blossoming lit [...]
Gifts from Down Under
The multi-talented Bill Manhire, author of the kickass intro to We Wanted to Be Writers, and director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (among myriad other thriving pursuits) has a new book out next month. Co-authored with several fellow faculty members, The Exercise Book: Creative Writing Exercises [...]
The Grateful Read Unveiled
Fire up the lava lamps and crank up the volume on “Fire on the Mountain.” It is with great pleasure and humility that we offer a very fond and heartfelt salute to readers of We Wanted to Be Writers everywhere. The Grateful Read project is an on-going labor of love; we hope you will join [...]
Books by Terry Johnson’s Bed
Terry D. Johnson is a lecturer of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author of How to Defeat Your Own Clone and tweets, predictably, as @terrydjohnson. Books by Terry’s bed include: • Any Nero Wolfe novel. I’m with Wodehouse on this one—Rex Stout is endlessly re-readable, and that’s a high standard to meet. [...]
KNPR Interviews Eric and Glenn
As a lead-in to the upcoming literary salon in Las Vegas focusing on We Wanted to Be Writers, Nevada Public Radio interviewed Eric and Glenn about their own literary beginnings, how the book came about, how the cast of characters was selected, and much more. Listen to the November 16, 2011 broadcast here ———>>> [...]
Digital Won’t Always Do
When eBooks Suck By Doug Borsom I was digging through my bookshelves looking for a specific title, when I happened across a book I hadn’t looked at in years. Letters from Father Christmas started as a series of letters written over years of Christmases, from J.R.R. Tolkien—in the guise of Father Christmas and other North [...]
How Strong Is YOUR Urge to Write?
Blind Ambition By Jeffrey Abrahams On the morning of October 3, I woke up blind. Well, semi-blind. I could function well enough to get to work, struggle at the computer all day, and continually tell myself that the schmear of schmutz that blanketed my left eye would simply go away. But by the next day [...]
Why to Read Annotations
Beckett in Waiting By Geri Lipschultz This is from an annotation in Geri’s doctoral creative dissertation explaining her use of a phrase from Samuel Beckett. Although he did not invent this phrase (“for reasons unknown [but time will tell]”), Samuel Beckett, the writer and amanuensis for the increasingly blind James Joyce, used it swimmingly (because [...]
Books by Denise Hamilton’s Bed
Former Los Angeles Times staff writer Denise Hamilton‘s crime novels have been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Willa Cather awards. Her new novel, Damage Control, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, raves from USA Today, Los Angeles Magazine and BN.com and kudos from James Ellroy (“A superb psychological thriller”). Denise’s first series book [...]
Eric Gets His Writerhead On
Take one guest post by Eric Olsen about inspiration on Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s Writerhead blog; add a We Wanted to Be Writers book GIVEAWAY; mix well, and voilá: enter the Muse in her pink Cadillac!
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