August 2012
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By ww2bw on August 31, 2012
Dave Hickey is a freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism who lives in New Mexico. He has written for most major cultural publications in the US and abroad, including The Rolling Stone, Art News, Artforum, Harpers, Vanity Fair, Playboy, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Frieze International [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged biography, literary heroes, music, mystery novels |
By ww2bw on August 30, 2012
But now, five months later, death was a matter of course, one more task in a day already filled with a heavy workload. Gooding could type his KIA press releases blindfolded. If, that is, he could get these two cupcake-smeared clerks in G-1 to cooperate and give him the nod. Gooding ground his teeth. CNN [...]
Posted in Genre | Tagged Forward Operating Base, Iraq War, US Army |
By ww2bw on August 29, 2012
Gooding gritted his teeth. Dead. Dying. Done for. By now, death was a way of life for him, a prescribed job skill he performed with automatic finger taps and wrist lifts across his keyboard. Death was just one of the commodities he traded on a daily basis. It hadn’t always been this way. He could [...]
Posted in Genre | Tagged Forward Operating Base, Iraq War, novel, US Army |
By ww2bw on August 28, 2012
This is the second of a four-part series of excerpts from chapter one of Fobbit, “Gooding.” FOBBIT © 2012 by David Abrams; reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. “Don’t wanna be no bullet sponge,” said Private First Class Simon Semple. “Oh, hell, no,” agreed Private First Class Allison Andersen. She stuck her forefinger [...]
Posted in Genre | Tagged Forward Operating Base, Iraq War, novel, US Army |
By ww2bw on August 27, 2012
David Abrams’ short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salamander, Connecticut Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The North Dakota Review and many other publications. He earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska—Fairbanks. He retired from active duty after serving in the U.S. Army for 20 years, a [...]
Posted in Genre | Tagged Forward Operating Base, Iraq War, novel, US Army |
By ww2bw on August 24, 2012
Marc Bloom is an award-winning journalist and former magazine editor-in-chief. He is the author of nine books including God on the Starting Line, about his experience as a Jewish coach of a Catholic high school cross-country team. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Marc says the books by his bed include: A Natural Woman [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative writing, fiction, short stories, sports books |
By Geri on August 20, 2012
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth”—Albert Camus “The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.” —Wallace Stevens (in Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose) [...]
Posted in Ask the Writers | Tagged creative writing, fiction, historical accuracy in fiction, truthfulness in fiction |
By Cheryl on August 17, 2012
David Abrams is the author of Fobbit, a comedy about the Iraq War (Grove/Atlantic) which Publishers Weekly called “an instant classic” and named a Top 10 Pick for Literary Fiction in Fall 2012. It is also an Indie Next pick and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His short stories have appeared [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged fiction, novels, reading, Star Trek |
By ww2bw on August 10, 2012
Kate Brandt leads three lives. As a suburban mother she ferries middle school boys around in her black Toyota, and as an adult literacy teacher in the Bronx she ferries bags of books into the classroom in order to get her students to read. As a writer, she crouches in bed, waiting for the right [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged adult literacy, creative writing, literary fiction, reading, short stories |
By Joy on August 8, 2012
It took Joy 14 years to write her new memoir. Revisiting the hard stuff can take a while. Sooooooo worth the wait! We recommend reading it with one of her CDs playing in the background, the more sax riffs the better. And potatoes frying in the skillet. From CRAZY BRAVE: A Memoir by Joy Harjo. [...]
Posted in Genre, Memoir | Tagged birth, CRAZY BRAVE, death, Joy Harjo, major life decisions, memoir |
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