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The Prologue of My Novel When The Angels Fall is a Finalist...
The link below leads to the finalists of the Up Authors First Chapter Contest of which the prologue of my Vampire novel When the Angels Fall (what I hope is a whole new approach to the genre)has been chosen as one of two finalists in the Urban/Horror category. The winners will be announced on April 25th. Please click on the link below for the details. I wish P.E. Kassees, author of Les Gen: Into the Knight, the other finalist, all the luck in the world. I am so thrilled to even be considered let alone a finalist. http://www.upauthors.com/events
Paper made from Sacred Elephant Dung
This is so neat! I'd love to use some of this. Imagine writing poetry on it, something about the whole idea just tickles me. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-elephant-dung-20110...
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STUFF I'M THINKING ABOUT
STUFF I'M THINKING ABOUT http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Why?
I do not understand such acts of depravity and cruelty. I just don't get it. I cannot wrap my mind around how one goes from kissing their wife and kids good bye, donning their work uniform, all the while believing in the sanctity of their cause and then...I understand the idea of a wolf pack mentality, but this...the world is insane. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/middleeast/27tripoli.html?_r=2&hp Sent from my iPhone
Friday, March 25, 2011
YouTube - Fly Paper Clock.avi
YouTube - Fly Paper Clock.avi: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJ6B3y_Afw"
ESQUIRE'S LIST OF 75 BOOKS EVERY MAN SHOULD READ
I look at this list three ways: 1.I've read some of the books on this list- 2.I've always intended to read the books on this list-3.I've never heard of some of the books on this list and hope to read them someday, not because I want to say, "hey,I read all 75 books on Esquire's list of books a man must read in his lifetime," but because, I love books and I'm more than a little soft in the head. And, wouldn't having a t-shirt made up to say: "I read all 75 books on Esquire magazine's list of books a man must read," all in 1980's pastel colors be really cool?
I think so.
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I think so.
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JOURNEY TO THE MANTLE OF THE EARTH
If Jules Verne were alive today he'd crap himself. http://pda.physorg.com/news/2011-03-scientists-drill-earth-mantle.html Sent from my iPhone
3 AM Mag 3:AM MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH ALAN MOORE
Boy From The Boroughs
Alan Moore interviewed by Pádraig Ó Méalóid.
“All of my tantrums, and the brutality and humiliation, and me sitting on top of a filing cabinet like Stan Lee, and dropping people’s cheques on the floor, so they had to grovel to me before they can pick them up. Nah, I don’t think… I’m very pleased with the way I’ve comported myself as Dodgem Logic’s publisher.”
Link to the interview below:
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/boy-from-the-boroughs/
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Six-Line Poetry of Nick Latour: for Lee
Six-Line Poetry of Nick Latour: for Lee: "these poems for you ole friend original pieces from thine pen small packet on napkin written genuinely from thy heart a thank you for a frie..."
H G Wells and David Lodge
HG Wells, author of more than 100 books, was also a prophet of the sexual revolution. David Lodge delves into his many affairs and, below, DJ Taylor considers his literary achievement
Wells with Rebecca West and friends. Photograph: Bridgeman Art Library
David Lodge
The Guardian, Fri 11 Mar 2011 10.00 GMT
"In 2004, while waiting for my novel about Henry James, Author, Author, to come out, I occupied myself by writing the introduction to a Penguin Classics edition of HG Wells's novel Kipps. In April I made this note in my very occasional diary:
Researching Kipps I came across in Wells's Experiment in Autobiography an interesting story of the ménage of Mr and Mrs Hubert Bland at Well Hall, Eltham. He was a Fabian, a philanderer who converted to Catholicism, she was E Nesbit. Possible material for a novel like Author, Author here. Sex, politics, children's literature . . . How much has it been worked over..."
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Monday, March 21, 2011
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Edgar Allan Poe Inaction Figure
"ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM, IS BUT A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM." 
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
US navy faces up to a new enemy – climate change - environment - 10 March 2011 - New Scientist
Climate change could take the US navy into treacherous waters. It will have to raise its game in a thawing Arctic and prepare coastal bases to cope with rising sea levels, concludes a review carried out for the navy by the National Research Council (NRC).
The US Congress may still question the science of climate change, but the Pentagon already thinks a changing climate will be a significant influence on the future security environment. It said as much in last year's Quadrennial Defence Review Report.
In 2009, chief of naval operations Gary Roughead commissioned the NRC to study the national security implications of climate change for the US navy. The results of that study, published today, conclude that the Arctic is a key challenge for the US – one of five countries with territory inside the Arctic circle.
In 2007, the fabled Northwest Passage along Canada and Alaska opened for the first time as a result of retreating sea ice. It is expected to become navigable – albeit probably still dangerous – by 2030. That will open the region to shipping, tourists and the exploitation of rich natural resources.
Maritime boundaries that determine who controls resources are already in dispute in the area. "The possibility of conflict is low, but it is still real," says the NRC panel co-chair Antonio Busalacchi at the University of Maryland in College Park. That makes the presence of the US navy or coastguard desirable to support the nation's interests and protect its citizens in the area.
Cold case
Yet the US has largely ignored the inhospitable Arctic in the two decades since the end of the cold war. "As a nation, we've lost some of our experience and edge in cold regions," says Busalacchi. Special equipment and training are? needed for Arctic operations: for instance, communication links degrade because areas north of the Arctic circle are out of normal range of the satellites in geosynchronous orbit that the navy uses. The US now has just three icebreakers – and two of them are over 30 years old. Of the other four nations with Arctic territory, Russia has 18 icebreakers, Finland and Sweden have seven each, and Canada has six.
To address these problems, the NRC panel urges the navy to build partnerships with other countries operating in the Arctic and to develop new navigation and communications techniques.
The sea-level rises predicted to follow global warming also pose a direct threat to naval facilities, most of which, obviously, lie along coasts. A survey for last year's quadrennial review found that 56 of the 103 navy bases that responded would be vulnerable to a 1-metre rise in sea level, which the panel considers likely by the end of this century. The report says these facilities are worth about $100 billion, and encourages the navy to identify which are at most risk from storm surges and sea-level rise, take steps to defend them, and develop models to predict future risks.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Paris Review The Art of Fiction 203 Ray Bradbury
"Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack–era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back. A few years ago, Bradbury let me look through some files stored in his garage as part of my research for a biography. Inside a tiny storage closet I found a compact filing cabinet covered in dust and fallen ceiling plaster, which contained, amid a flurry of tear sheets and yellowing book contracts, a folder marked paris review. In the folder was the manuscript of a remarkable unpublished interview that this magazine had conducted with the author in the late 1970s.
It’s unclear why the interview was abandoned, but according to an attached editorial memo, editor George Plimpton found the first draft “a bit informal in places, maybe overly enthusiastic.” Bradbury, who will turn ninety in August, cannot recall why he never finished the interview; he figures that when he was asked to revisit it, he had moved on to other projects. But with the rediscovery of the manuscript, he agreed to give it another go and bring it up to date. Since the original interviewer, William Plummer, a Paris Reviewcontributing editor, died in 2001, we supplemented the original sessions with new conversations..."
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
David Foster Wallace
Why It's Particularly Important to Read David Foster Wallace
By: Rebekah Frumkin
"Two years have now passed since the death of David Foster Wallace in the fall of 2008. His legacy as a writer has been the subject of nonstop debate since the day of his suicide. I’ll cut to the chase: I believe he was, in his own way, a literary genius. Let me explain why.
You may have opened Harper’s or Rolling Stone back around the turn of the century and read a really funny essay by a chatty, neurotic writer who hadRain Man–like abilities to recall and describe experiences as diverse as attending the Illinois State Fair, playing tennis during a tornado, and following John McCain’s presidential campaign. You may have found the essays hilarious, or quite brilliant. You may have gone so far as to say, as the critic Michiko Kakutani did in the New York Times, that they described modern life with “humor and fervor and verve,” and you may have wanted to read more of them. Regardless of how you felt, you probably dealt with the situation in a normal, adult way. That is, you looked up the essayist’s name online and maybe bought some of his collections, like Consider the Lobster or A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. I’ll go ahead and assume you didn’t form an obsessive attachment to the author and delve perilously deep into his essays and fiction and then have to purge all your David Foster Wallace emotional attachment errata onto a blank page and call it an “essay.” Because that’s what I did—and let me tell you, gentle reader: it hasn’t been fun..."
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Paris Review Interview with Francine du Plessix Gray
"I first met Francine du Plessix Gray in Morocco in 1983. Gray had interrupted the completion of her third novel, October Blood, and was en route to Paris to finish her articles about Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and the French Resistance, which would appear in Vanity Fair that fall and for which she would receive the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting.
Gray was born in the French Embassy of Warsaw in 1930 where her father, a specialist in Slavic languages, was a member of the French diplomatic corps. After he died in 1940, his plane shot down by Fascist artillery, she and her mother emigrated to America and her mother married Alexander Liberman. Her mother was a noted hat designer and her stepfather is the painter, sculptor, and editorial director of Condé Nast. Francine du Plessix attended the Spence School, Bryn Mawr, and two summer sessions at Black Mountain College before graduating from Barnard where she majored in philosophy. She was the only woman on the nightshift at United Press International for two years and was a fashion reporter in Paris. In 1957, she married painter Cleve Gray and later had two sons, Thaddeus, now a banker, and Luke, now an artist. For the first years of her marriage she painted, a vocation for which she had had a yearning since childhood. She returned to writing by doing art criticism for Art in America, where she was book editor in 1964; and in 1965, she began to contribute fiction and political essays to The New Yorker. Her first two books were nonfiction: Divine Disobedience: Profiles in Catholic Radicalism (1970), for which she won a National Catholic Book Award, followed by Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress(1972). Three novels followed: Lovers and Tyrants(1976), World Without End (1981), and October Blood(1985). Her new collection of essays, Adam & Eve and the City (1987), displays her keen observations of the political, literary, and domestic scene. Gray has taught at the College of the City of New York, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University, and was writer in residence at the American Academy in Rome.
We began the interview at her home in Warren, Connecticut, a town so small it does not have its own post office. So much of her time is spent traveling, she has found this remote area of New England a perfect refuge from urban and social distractions, and a fine place for work. We met in winter, a week before Christmas. Pushkin and Sabaka, companion standard poodles, accompanied us on a tour of the stone farmhouse: huge hearths, a labyrinth of small, dark eighteenth-century rooms alternating with lighter, newer spaces, walls lined with bookcases and contemporary paintings. The tiny bedroom where she spends her early morning hours reading is painted a dark green. By contrast, her study, a barn that used to be Cleve’s studio, is airy and white. It is furnished with an IBM word processor, and such varied classics as St. Augustine’s Confessions, Finnegans Wake, the complete works of Samuel Beckett and of Roland Barthes, The Perfectibility of Man in Christian Thought, and E. R. Dodds’s The Greeks and the Irrational. Postcards of particularly beloved paintings—by Titian, Piero della Francesca, Caspar David Friedrich—are tacked to the bookcases above her desk.
We paused only for dinner by the fireplace of the Grays’ living room, and lunch in an historic nearby town; most of our day and a half talk took place in Francine’s study where she sat in front of a picture window. Dressed casually in somber-hued slacks and sweater, she could be taken for a one-time fashion model: tall, elegant, fine-boned, with intensely intelligent and aristocratic features; her manner is warm, friendly, and gracious. On one occasion she wore glasses and took notes as we spoke, wishing to make her remarks as thorough as possible. The following morning she was up early, carefully expanding upon statements made the evening before. Her accent and intonations are still distinctly European. “How odious!” she might exclaim, or “Formidable!”
Gray honed my edited version of the transcripts of our conversation on her word processor, condensing the lengthy original. We made our final changes just before the publication of her collection of essays, Adam & Eve and the City..."
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo's America - A Don DeLillo Site
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. America was and is the immigrant's dream, and as the son of two immigrants I was attracted by the sense of possibility that had drawn my grandparents and parents.
--Don DeLillo, from the 1993 interview with Adam Begleyhttp://www.perival.com/delillo/delillo.html
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Editing? Are Editors A Dying Breed?
I write. I write poems, short stories, essays, reviews, a novel in progress, plays, all sorts of stuff. I'm decent at editing myself. Actually, I am more than decent at editing myself, I am a relentless editor of my own writing. But, I can't catch all the errors and I am grateful to have dedicated editors to help make my writing shine. Even with my OCD like behavior when it comes to self-editing, it is helpful to have somebody with a command of the English language and someone I respect to tell me when I suck or when I am right on. Writers need great editors to make good literature. I'm no exception.
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"Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, argues Blake Morrison, editors are now an endangered species
Blake Morrison
The Observer, Sat 6 Aug 2005 01.59 BST
Has editing had its day? A Dutch publisher recently described to me how a British author had sent her the first draft of his new book. Though a great admirer of his work, she felt that this time he hadn't done justice to his material. So they sat down together and mapped out a different perspective and storyline and he went away and rewrote the book. It's not often you hear publishers speak of being so frankly interventionist - and I wondered if that was why the author had sent his book to a Dutch editor, because this kind of intense collaborative process between author and editor no longer exists in Britain..."
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