Charlottesville Words

• 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: Call for Submissions
  “We are reading book reviews, essays, and interviews for Issue 13. We’ve got a number of reviews already set and are especially looking for features at this point…Starting this issue, we are paying: $25 for a review, $30 per interview, $40 per feature.”
• Guide to Literary Agents – Calling All SW Virginia Writers!
  Chuck Sambuchino, editor of Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents, will be presenting to the Smith Mountain Lake Writers Group the night of Wednesday, July 2.
• The Psychopedia or, How To Do Stuff: Episode 23: How to Get on My Nerves
  “If you’ve ever hung out for me for like more than three minutes, you know that a lot of things drive me crazy, that’s for sure….”
• ‘The Shack,’ a Christian Novel, Becomes a Surprise Best Seller – NYTimes.com
  –Mr. Jacobsen read the novel and immediately thought it deserved a larger following. “It brought God alive in a way that I think few books in literature ever do,” he said.

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