July 2012
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Memoir Excerpt Part 3
Centennial By Dick Cummins This is the third and final installment from a work in progress. It wasn’t long before my mother started getting her money’s worth out of those acting lessons because she had me auditioning for all kids’ parts in all the theaters on the Monterey Peninsula. I got them too and the [...]
Memoir Excerpt Part 2
Centennial By Dick Cummins This is the second of a three-part series of excerpts from a work in progress. Because of the great centennial compromise I did get a lever-action, Daisy Red Ryder model air rifle for my sixth birthday. My father bought it at Holman’s in Pacific Grove, a department store with a room [...]
Memoir Excerpt Part 1
Centennial By Dick Cummins Dick Cummins is a frequent contributor to this blog. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is working on a memoir. This is the first installment of a three-part excerpt. Cleaning out my mother’s attic for the estate sale, I found a leather photo album that smelled like mice. A photo [...]
Books by Robert Dorsett’s Bed
Robert Hammond Dorsett has translated, along with David Pollard, a book from the memoirs of Gao Ertai, In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp (HarperCollins 2009) and has just completed a five-act play based on the memoir. His book of translations from the poetry of Wen Yiduo is due out [...]
From News to Optimism
Confessions of a Recovering Journalist By Anne Marie Ruff Anne Marie Ruff has reported on AIDS research, drug development, biodiversity conservation, and agriculture from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Her work has been broadcast by National Public Radio, Public Radio International, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and PBS TV. Her articles have appeared in [...]
On Essays
By Harvey Freedenberg Harvey Freedenberg practices intellectual property law and litigation with a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania law firm. In 2000, he took a six-month sabbatical from his law practice and studied creative writing with novelist Susan Perabo at his alma mater, Dickinson College. Four of his short stories have won prizes, and he has written an [...]
Books by Jimin Han’s Bed
Jimin Han’s fiction and nonfiction can be found at NPR’s “Weekend America,” eChook’s memoir app, The NuyorAsian Anthology, Global City Review, and KoreanAmericanStory.org, among others. She teaches at the Writing Institute, Sarah Lawrence College. You can see her other musings and works-in-progress on her blog. The pile of books I’ve yet to read, (aka the [...]
Bukoski Reviews Short Fiction Collection
In his latest review for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Anthony Bukoski takes on The Law of Miracles by Gregory Blake Smith. Tony says Smith is an Iowa Workshop alumnus, “and one of the stories concerns a fictitious Workshop poet, Ichabod Sick.” Spoiler alert: Tony also says that story is Smith’s one misstep, but that’s all you’re gonna [...]
When the Re-Read Affair Ends Part 4
By Dick Cummins Dick Cummins is a frequent contributor to this blog. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is working on a memoir. He has been known to digress. I re-read (actually listened to) Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the car. It held up wonderfully! Craft, theme, substance, comedy, tragedy [...]
William A. Souder Interview
By Eric Olsen Journalist and author William Souder lives and writes in Grant, Minnesota, which is far enough into the country that he gets to watch his neighbor cutting hay three or four times a summer, and where he can see five barns from his office window but still make out the Minneapolis skyline looking [...]
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