Last week, the CP ran an article about an effort DC-based authors are making to establish an 826-like writing center for DC kids ages 6-18 called the Capitol Letters Writing Center.
The aim is a fall 2008 launch for what the founders are calling “The Greatest Writing Center On Earth!”, but need to shore up some [...]
Tired with debunking fabricating memoirists, I suppose, GalleyCat has turned its attention to what it calls “literature’s gatekeepers”: editors.
Recently they’ve been hard at work sleuthing to expose a trend of fake editors sending rejection letters to authors, and have found that it’s a pretty common practice. (Del Ray Books’ apparition, for instance, was named Urban [...]
Local opportunity alert: Over at her blog, Work-In-Progress, DC-area novelist Leslie Pietrzyk thinks “most MFA programs only critique the first three chapters of your [novel] manuscript,” so this summer she wants to help fix that.
Last week Fresh Air had an excellent interview with one of the capital-C coolest writers I’ve ever met, Meg Wolitzer: [...]
Rather than tour the country this time, the folks at the radio show This American Life–whose first season as a TV show on Showtime was a stunning work-in-progress with brilliant potential–are live-satelliting outtakes, never before seen material, Q&A, and a bunch of other stuff to tons of movie theaters around the country on May 1.
None [...]
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When it comes to Eliot Spitzer erotic fiction, it’s probably best to let the title speak for itself:
“The Sheriff of Three-Way Street,” 236.com (via Paper Cuts)