I just got back from Middlebury, my apartment smells much, much better than I do, and I think I’m going to sleep for about a week. I’d like to post a nice little wrap-up of the last two weeks, but I’m far too wiped for something like that right now.
Good thing the AP did a [...]
Not in VT yet, but before I get on the road, Pop Candy announced that the winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a writing competition that honors “bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.” This year’s winner, Garrison Spik, is, like me, a DC writer who grew up in Pittsburgh, and here’s his winning entry:
Theirs was [...]
Here’s how the next ten days are going to work. I’m going to sleep in a dorm room in the mountains of Vermont, sit around with folks four a couple of hours every other day and talk about nonfiction and how it works (or doesn’t), attend panels, readings, etc. First it will be awkward, then [...]
Next Wednesday, I have the pleasure of driving up to Middlebury Vermont to attend the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, where I’ll be for ten days of uninterrupted, bookish Vermonty-ness (see also Moe ‘N’a Lisa). Today I received in the mail the memoirs of the two people I’ll be studying with there–Garrett “Volcano” Hongo and Rus [...]
Happy August, everyone. The heat + humidity in DC is getting to be entirely too much, and I find myself dreading the idea of leaving my apartment. So if you’re shutting yourself in with the AC as well, might as well have something to do, so here’s some links:
Linking to links: Author, Author, Jacket Copy.
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