November 2009

Minutiae

• "Publish more books for men and boys," he urges, but if all those women editors are so blinkered about what men and boys find interesting, how can we expect them to make the right choices? More at Salon.

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• I don’t believe new writers—at least not the ones I’ve met—search their hearts for the source of their creative inclinations and hear a voice that says, “Serial killers.” More @ 3:17 AM

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• Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. More @ The New Yorker.

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• “The shock of Terry McMillan is that they didn’t know there were millions of black and white readers interested in the lives and heartaches of upper-middle-class black women.” More @ NYT.

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• Memoirist Sue William Silverman: "It is voice, then, in all its manifestations, that examines multiple and mysterious facets of a persona: the real 'you' deepened into a character." More @ creativenonfiction.org

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