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Novelist Gets Bugged Print E-mail
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Friday, 02 May 2008
“I am writing for ordinary people,” he told me. “I want everyone to be able to read my books. The problem with Arab literature has been that it forgot to tell stories and lost its way in experimentation. Too many novels that start with lines like ‘I came home to find my wife having sex with a cockroach.’ ”


Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany in The New York Times, April 27, 2008


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The 510 Reading series: Report and Commentary by Pat King Print E-mail
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Monday, 28 April 2008

The 510 Reading series in Baltimore has been going on since the beginning of the year.  It’s the only reading series strictly for local prose writers.  It’s organized and hosted by Jen Michalski and Michael Kimball......


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The Ambition Conundrum by Tim Hall Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008
"The Ambition Conundrum." Sounds almost like a Robert Ludlum title, I know. But the question I've been batting around my head lately is serious.............

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Unite the Write! by Pat King Print E-mail
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Sunday, 20 April 2008

Unite the Write!  The OW rallying cry. 

It’s a good motto and I like it.  But it can be a bit misleading.  We’re obviously not trying to unite everyone...........


 

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The Authenticity Hustle by Tim Hall Print E-mail
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Friday, 04 April 2008
We've all read the news accounts of one fake memoir after another coming to light: fake gang members, fake Holocaust survivors, fake soldiers, fake Native Americans, fake ex-cons. Publishers are so desperate for sales that they are attracting record numbers of unscrupulous authors who will concoct the most grandiose claims in order to achieve success. Customers are up in arms, publishers cry innocence, editors shrug and the authors are unavailable for comment. The debate rages: who's really to blame..........

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