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Monday, January 25, 2016
Thursday, March 19, 2015
speaking of proper punctuation...
Speaking of proper punctuation, this is one of my favorite stories. It involves Ben Bradlee, the one of a kind editor at the Washington Post.
The second paragraph about house grammarian Tom Lippman is the story.
And just to make this all really fun: Tom Lippman is one of my clients now.
The second paragraph about house grammarian Tom Lippman is the story.
And just to make this all really fun: Tom Lippman is one of my clients now.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
What are YOU reading this Sunday?
Manuscript for the win!
all that reading requires just a little cat nap!
Sunday, March 02, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Happy Sunday!
Remember the writing contest to create words for a collective of something?
Amanda Capps sent me this picture for "a pyramid of goats!"
Amanda Capps sent me this picture for "a pyramid of goats!"
photo: Blaine Owens
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Have a glorious day
I think this 43-second video is one of the most important things you can watch, and remember. It's about the creative process
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
A brief pause for jocularity
This has long been one of my favorite jokes:
Here's the entire list. Which one is your favorite?
A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says “make me one with everything”.Recently, a website** posted a list of 50 Best Intellectual Jokes and I found one that I like even better:
The vendor makes the hot dog and hands it to the Buddhist monk, who pays with a $20 bill. The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. “Excuse me, but where’s my change?” asks the Buddhist monk. The vendor replied, “Change must come from within.”
Here's the entire list. Which one is your favorite?
***hat tip to @TerriLCoop for the link to the list!
Saturday, September 28, 2013
"I became a reader of the exiled books"--Jonathan Lethem
Here's my favorite Jonathan Lethem story. Long before he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, or the MacArthur genius grant for being ..well...amazing,
Jonathan Lethem was an author on book tour.
I met him out in the hinterlands when he was touring for AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE. I'd read about 30 pages of it. I loved it. It was full of physics and science and it was hilarious.
I nattered on about physics and various physicist's books I'd loved but Jonathan Lethem didn't have much to say. Well, maybe he's just bored with people talking science to him, or he's tired I thought. No matter.
He signed the book and off I went.
Only as I continued reading did I realize the book is a satire. All the science is made up stuff. Jonathan Lethem didn't know a quark from a quack. When I figured that out I laughed so hard at myself I had to go out and buy the rest of his books.
And when I ended up reading MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN about two blocks from the epicenter of the novel, well, that became one of my all time favorite Why I love Living in NYC moments.
Here's a great interview with a wonderful author about how he works. There's a series of these at the Daily Beast that are worth your reading time as well.
Jonathan Lethem was an author on book tour.
I met him out in the hinterlands when he was touring for AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE. I'd read about 30 pages of it. I loved it. It was full of physics and science and it was hilarious.
I nattered on about physics and various physicist's books I'd loved but Jonathan Lethem didn't have much to say. Well, maybe he's just bored with people talking science to him, or he's tired I thought. No matter.
He signed the book and off I went.
Only as I continued reading did I realize the book is a satire. All the science is made up stuff. Jonathan Lethem didn't know a quark from a quack. When I figured that out I laughed so hard at myself I had to go out and buy the rest of his books.
And when I ended up reading MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN about two blocks from the epicenter of the novel, well, that became one of my all time favorite Why I love Living in NYC moments.
Here's a great interview with a wonderful author about how he works. There's a series of these at the Daily Beast that are worth your reading time as well.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Congrats to Barbara Poelle!
This news was in the trades today:
And then when we saw this coming down the Hudson:
Clearly BP the VP travels in style!
And then when we saw this coming down the Hudson:
Clearly BP the VP travels in style!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
And then there are days like this
INTO THE
BREACH!
A Review of
Patrick Lee's Breach Trilogy
By guest reviewer
Andrew Salmon
In these days of overhyped, over-marketed, multi-volume mega-series, it's hard to find a series of novels that truly justifies their existence. It's all about branding and stretching stories out to 1000s of pages for purely economic reasons is, sadly, the norm these days.
Patrick Lee's incredible Breach trilogy is the exception to the rule.
In three of the best edge-of-your-seat thrill rides this reader has ever had the pleasure to read, Lee gives us a New Pulp trilogy for the ages. The novels are The Breach, Ghost Country and Deep Sky and all three are lean, mean, thrill machines you do not want to miss.
Read the full review
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