Kirsten Ogden at KR Blog asks, “What do writers do in Writing Workshops, and how do writers know how to do it?” Good question! Ogden describes several different workshops she’s been part of, good and bad, and shares some resources she’s found. Such as: I did find a few helpful essays inside of books, such [...]
A thriller in ten chapters | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books “To be a writer in the English language today is to be one of the luckiest people alive.” NASA – Phoenix Photos from Phoenix lander on Mars
Scheduled book club discussions at BookBalloon: » June 2008 – American Woman by Susan Choi. Starting June 5. » July 2008 – The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Starting July 7. » August 2008 – To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Starting August 5. Now’s a good time to join BookBalloon, a free, private book discussion [...]
I have Rick Sincere to thank for alerting me to this gem of a movie, now playing at the downtown Regal, about Hitler’s attempts to appropriate or destroy all the great artworks of Europe. His plans for seizing major works of art were begun before the invasion of Poland, and the plunder and destruction were [...]
Be there or be a regular polygon with four sides. Jen sez: I’d been trying to figure out what to do locally, when lo and behold I was invited to appear at Charlottesville’s brand-new WriterHouse, a gathering space for the scribes of central Virginia. I went to their opening reception last week and was very [...]