From VQR:
McFadden’s Hardscrabble Wins Poetry Award
By Kevin Morrissey
June 30th, 2008
Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble, one of the inaugural titles in the VQR Poetry Series, published by the University of Georgia Press, has just been awarded 2008 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. The award, which recognizes work by emerging poets living in and writing [...]
Audio of Jen Sorensen’s presentation on June 11 at WriterHouse has been posted at the WriterHouse site and at Charlottesville Podcasting Network. Or, you can listen here!
audio: Jen Sorensen at WriterHouse
Q&A with Jen Sorensen
Slowpoke Comics
I freely admit I have the attention span — oooh, shiny! — of a magpie. After all, that’s why I blog. When I stumble across an infelicitous or puzzling phrase in my reading, it tends to distract me, sometimes stop me cold. Here are some instances from just this morning. Be honest with me — [...]
Books that Get Smart! | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times
“The campy ’60s TV series featuring a not-at-all smart secret agent did not originally derive from some heavy, intellectual novel. But it was popular enough to spawn nine paperbacks…. the books can be bought on EBay for less than $10.”
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Avoiding This Cliché ‘Should Be Required for All Americans’ « One-Minute Book Reviews
“And This Week’s Gusher Awards for Achievement in Hyperbole in Book Reviewing Go to …”
A little bird tells me:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. President George W. Bush will attend the July 4 event at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, the White House has announced.
Bush will be the featured speaker at Monticello’s 46th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. He will become the fourth sitting president to participate in Independence Day activities [...]
Why am I just now hearing about Citizen Philosopher? I must look into this more closely…
‘I was never about boo hoo hoo’ | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
“In person, [Dave] Pelzer, 47, is by turn defensive, self-promoting, evasive, messianic – a torrent of intense sincerity and total contradiction.” –Why am I not surprised?
Krakauer’s Tillman Book Withdrawn – 6/24/2008 11:51:00 AM – Publishers Weekly
“Krakauer is apparently unhappy with the manuscript and [...]
Conservapedia:How can we protect Conservapedia by distinguishing real conservative encyclopedia articles from satires written by liberals? – Conservapedia
Literary Kicks : George Carlin: Safe at Home
“Language was George Carlin’s playpen. Here he is on the difference between baseball and football…” Includes video.
Critics choose their most-loathed books – Times Online
“My redmist book is Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the acme of Bloomsburyish poppycock….Should be sold with a sick bag attached.”
Conversational Reading: Quarterly Conversation, Issue 13: [...]