Post from Writers Write
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 9:00 pm
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Writer Philip Hoare has won the BBC Samuel Johnson prize for his nonfiction book Leviathan. Described as a mix of genres, from natural history to memoir, the book is the result of Philip Hoares’ lifelong love of whales.

The chairman of judges for this year’s £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson prize, the American political journalist Jacob Weisberg, [...]

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 8:39 pm
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Hat tip to AraI had no idea there was a contest to craft the most gawd-awful opening sentence for a (fake) novel. In any case, I’m sure I could have topped this year’s winner.

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 8:39 pm
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Hat tip to Ara
I had no idea there was a contest to craft the most gawd-awful opening sentence for a (fake) novel. In any case, I’m sure I could have topped this year’s winner.

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Post from The Burnside Writers Blog
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:07 pm
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This morning, I stumbled across an obituary for an Oregonian in a Deadspin comment. This guy is Sully Sullenberger times a million.
Reusser flew 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was shot down in all three, five times in all.
Think about that: this guy plummeted from the sky inside a [...]

Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 12:40 pm
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It was surreal being at Glastonbury when Michael Jackson died. The rumour that he’s dead goes around the festival every single year. Him and Rolf Harris. After getting the sad confirmation that Michael really was dead, I was a bit concerned about Rolf too until he performed on the Saturday.Many artists paid tribute to MJ [...]

Post from Artist a Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:01 am
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About the “B(r)anded Series”:
The B(r)anded series is a result of an exploration, and subsequent appropriation of the language of advertising. By employing the ubiquitous language of advertising in my work, I am able to talk explicitly about race, class and history in a medium that almost everyone can decode. [...]

Post from Artist a Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 6:01 am
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About the “B(r)anded Series”:
The B(r)anded series is a result of an exploration, and subsequent appropriation of the language of advertising. By employing the ubiquitous language of advertising in my work, I am able to talk explicitly about race, class and history in a medium that almost everyone can decode. [...]

Post from Writers Write
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 5:00 am
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The L.A. Times Jacket Copy reports that author Alice Hoffman used her Twitter account to vent her frustrations about a review of her book, The Story Sisters, in the Boston Globe. Alice Hoffman felt the critic’s review gave away too much of the plot from her novel.

But the vitriol Hoffman used to express her dissatisfaction [...]

Post from The Burnside Writers Blog
Monday, June 29, 2009, 8:53 pm
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I was in Portland this weekend, living it up. I missed this photo on Deadspin. It’s just too funny not to mention.
I hate being a tourist in my hometown.

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Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, June 29, 2009, 7:27 pm
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You may remember Darryn Walker. He was the 35-year-old UK civil servant who posted a graphic Sickfic story on the Internet in which the singers in the group Girls Aloud were kidnapped, tortured, raped, and mutilated. He was arrested and charged with violating the Obscene Publications Act.  Yesterday he was acquitted on all charges.
Walker's lawyer [...]

Post from Writers Anonymous
Monday, June 29, 2009, 2:48 pm
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Now that you understand a bit about where the seed for WritAnon came from, the next logical question is what direction WritAnon will go in the near future.
The site goals by the end of this year are fairly straightforward:

The site will be self-sustaining.
The forum will have 200 members by January 1st, 2010.
The blog will be [...]

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Monday, June 29, 2009, 1:49 pm
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(Hat tip to Mariellen)Over the past two years, I’ve written a few travel articles, even an award-winning one. But, as is my self-deprecating obligation as a neurotic creative type, I’m still not convinced that I am actually a “travel writer,” and not j…

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Monday, June 29, 2009, 1:49 pm
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(Hat tip to Mariellen)
Over the past two years, I’ve written a few travel articles, even an award-winning one. But, as is my self-deprecating obligation as a neurotic creative type, I’m still not convinced that I am actually a “travel writer,” and not just a dispenser of clichés and recounter of boring “what my wife and [...]

Post from The Burnside Writers Blog
Monday, June 29, 2009, 12:06 pm
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I mentioned a few posts ago about how my church has been involved with ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover’s project in Erie. It’s amazing how much changes in a few days. Just before I went on vacation I learned a team from my church attended a meeting to discuss the side project. I’ve never watched an [...]

Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, June 29, 2009, 10:58 am
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Post from Artist a Day
Monday, June 29, 2009, 6:01 am
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Elsa on her work:
My work is about human nature, about the way we are and the way we interact with each other, with ourselves and with the rest of the world. I enjoy working in different media like painting, ceramic, drawing, photography, installation illustration and in 2008 I discovered [...]

Post from Artist a Day
Monday, June 29, 2009, 6:01 am
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Elsa on her work:
My work is about human nature, about the way we are and the way we interact with each other, with ourselves and with the rest of the world. I enjoy working in different media like painting, ceramic, drawing, photography, installation illustration and in 2008 I discovered [...]

Post from The Burnside Writers Blog
Monday, June 29, 2009, 1:38 am
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The family and I just returned from a quick tour of Amy’s side of the family in Michigan. We had a great time but logged in too many highway miles, at too many ribs, and consumed a little too much coffee on the way back to Pennsylvania to stay awake. I remembered that this was [...]

Post from The Burnside Writers Blog
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 7:05 pm
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CS Lewis prayed that God would give him an anonymous death, and he got it. Lewis died the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I half wondered if Farrah Fawcett had wished for the same, because she certainly got it. Only hours after she succumbed to cancer, Michael Jackson was dead.
I was in Yosemite [...]

Post from Post Secret
Sunday, June 28, 2009, 6:01 pm
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

—–Email Message—–
Frank,
I noticed a woman had written a postcard on your site today about post partum depression. I wanted to extend to her and any other woman suffering our resource 1-800-PPD-MOMS.
There she can find comfort in [...]