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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-12-27

Sunday, December 27, 2009

@mathiasreese good to hear you arrived safely. i’ll have to check out dead man’s shoes. maybe when you get back, if you still have it? in reply to mathiasreese # @mynameis_shoe cleaner. happier. more productive. (stacked with pristine rolls of toilet paper.) in reply to mynameis_shoe # @mynameis_shoe of course i was talking about wall-e [...]

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We are of two different kinds…

Saturday, December 26, 2009

“I am one of those who like to stay late at the café,” the older waiter said. “With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

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If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories

Monday, December 21, 2009

This volume collects an assortment of Paul Park’s early short stories, written between 1983 and 2002. Park is primarily a novelist, and an excellent one, and his short fiction affects me as well as his work in longer forms. The Tourist is the first Park story I read. I found it online before I went [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-12-20

Sunday, December 20, 2009

wodka. the W is for “wow!” or “wolfmonger.” # @glorioushubris i can’t draw well, but i will buy that book and read it, and how. please to write it now. in reply to glorioushubris # using tea and drugs to fight illness. i feel british. # (can i say british? is that a racial slur? [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-12-13

Sunday, December 13, 2009

@lizargall often writing changes by epoch (though current age seems more treelike than past). any ideas of possible profitable directions? in reply to lizargall # @lizargall sounds like a fine goal to me. but is that risk special, or just what good writers do? in reply to lizargall # a sleepy, quiet morning. i like [...]

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In Which Mr McCarthy Speaks

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Some quotes from Cormac McCarthy, in this interview with The Wall Street Journal. Mr McCarthy says: Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, [...]

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Risk In Writing

Monday, December 7, 2009

Damien G. Walter wrote this call-out post asking for suggestions of currently working writers who are bold, who experiment, and who risk themselves. Somebody help him out; I want to know too. I’ve been thinking about risk in literature lately—mostly in the context of wanting not to retread smooth ground—but I run into the same [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-12-06

Sunday, December 6, 2009

time lapse video of heaps of sea-stars eating a seal pup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG17TsgV_qI like Švankmajer doing animal planet. # the clarion workshop is accepting applications today thru march 1. if you write short stories, apply. http://clarion.ucsd.edu/workshop.html # you there, citizen: buy this book when it comes out. RT @hollyblack: Whoa – my White Cat cover is [...]

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When They Really Get To Know You They Will Run

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

what makes you think that it won’t grow back in a day or two? husbands in winter, they know the truth but what can they do? i don’t like girls the way they are so shave their legs, and make them look like movie stars then we can pretend it’s natural put on whatever makes [...]

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