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Read “Inventory,” an excerpt from Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop founder Julia Fierro’s newly completed novel, The End of the World as We Know It, here in Guernica.
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Thomas Beller writes about David Berman, the poet and Silver Jews frontman, (with snippets of Open City history) in Tablet Magazine. Read it here. American Water by Silver Jews is probably on my top-five albums list. One of the ones I’d bring on a desert island with me.
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Read the list here at Egotripland. I’m really looking forward to the Automator’s follow-up to Deltron 3030.
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Read it here. This part, below, really stood out for me. I was thinking I’ve got some stuff on the hard drive that may be just exercises. And she’s getting to the essence of what writing is, and how a writer should look at things, I think. Jami Attenberg: …I wrote a book last year that I threw…
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I was just thinking of Kurt Vonnegut over the weekend. I might’ve even had a dream about him, where it was declared by me or someone else that he was the greatest American writer. And now, lo and behold, there’s an interview in The Rumpus with Nanette, his daughter, and we’re coming up on what…
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Am I getting old and complacent? Because somehow I agree with this list entirely and everything that’s written in this piece. (I may not agree on exact order, but I think they got the 10.) They say “Sister Ray” is the Velvets’ best song, and that just made me smile from ear to ear. I’d probably…
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Electric Lit has part 2 of Susan Kirschbaum’s “Diary of a Rogue Writer” posted today. This part gets into the real salesmanship part of it and creating buzz. Read it.
Joe Sullivan 