Nov
23
Old School Books Win In The Children’s Book Market
November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Parents tend to choose old fashioned paper books over e-books for their children…
Nov
17
Imagination: We Are Its Shadow On The Earth
November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
“Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth.” – Vladimir Nabokov My dear friend over at the O! Lightening blog did a delightful post on some music she loves (specifically Gillian Welch’s impossibly gorgeous new album) and she introduced that post with a poem of equal beauty by Czesław Miłosz (found also here on Whiskey River - [...]
Nov
12
Humiliation, Eternally Documented
November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
When we’re writing, it’s inevitable that we will draw from our own experience. Whether in terms of story or character, there will almost always be shades of the self, flitting like ghosts in the margins. With the rise of blogging, social networks, and reality television, the lines of privacy are blurred to practically nothing. I’ve [...]
Nov
3
A Book We Want To Read, and two other things…
November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
We want to read this: Nuclear Romance, a debut novel by New York journalist Abby Luby, was written after the devastating accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plants in March, 2011. In the novel, the tragic and mysterious death of a 7-year old girl after swimming at a beach across [...]