July 2010
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Good reads: "Claire In Africa," by Emily St. John... →
Brothers, love, reflection. I was worried that this story, which starts out on a downer and pretty much continues down for several thousand words, would have an unhappy ending. Thankfully, that isn’t the case.
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Good reads: "The City," by Ray Bradbury →
I mean, gosh, this is just an imperfectly-OCRed version of the story, and if you really want to see the real thing by all means pick up the book. But even here, reading off this Scribd document on a glowing computer screen, I am transported back fifteen years to the dusty Hardin County library, where I pulled down a book of Bradbury stories off the shelf and sat on one of those metal wheeled...
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July reading list
Fiction
Annabel Scheme (December 2009)
Tainaron (January 2010)
The Things They Carried (March 2010)
Love in the Ruins (May 2010)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (June 2010)
The Invisible Bridge (July 2010)
Prodigal Summer
What is the What
And You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Nonfiction
The Portable MFA in Creative Writing
Sickness Unto Death
Writing Down the Bones
The Artful Edit
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Mockingbird
Harper Lee published one book, and never published another.
That’s genius? She had only one book inside of her, and then once she let it out she was finished for good and there was no reason to write another.
Or maybe she had writer’s block and couldn’t write another.
I remember reading once that she gave an interview claiming that she’d finished a second novel...
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Kelly Link on reading like a writer →
austinkleon:
Oh, this is a delicious post. My favorite part:
10. Learn to read other kinds of narrative. Think about narrative when you’re watching television, or a movie. Apply all of the rules above. Read comic books. Read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and Lynda Barry’s What It Is. Read Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series. Learn how to read advertisements — what they want to...
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“American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses, took off backwards...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five. I just finished reading The Invisible Bridge, and after the horror at the end of the war I could only wish that things would happen as Billy Pilgrim sees them.
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12 Wonderful Wagons We Want →
Wired.com loves the station wagon.
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