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Archive for January 2010
Sunday Secrets
Post from Post Secret
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:02 am
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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—–I got misty-eyed after reading that. I always thought the people in the costumes didn’t care about the kids. T…
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PostSecret Live (Schools & Dates)
Post from Post Secret
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 1:01 am
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The three PostSecret Events this week have sold-out. Please get your tickets early. Use the links below for details and to RSVP.APAP, New York, NY (SOLD-OUT)01-10-10http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180766253726Seattle University, Seattle, WA (SO…
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Author Solutions is No Solution
Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 5:45 am
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Kevin Weiss, the CEO of the vanity press Author Solutions, posted a video on YouTube asking the Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Romance Writers of America to meet with him to discuss all the…
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Secret J.D. Salinger Documentary to be Released This Spring
Post from Writers Write
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2:00 am
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Deadline Hollywood Daily reports
that this spring — probably at the Cannes film festival — a new documentary about J.D. Salinger will be released. The project has been kept under wraps — it took five years to make and has extensive new information about the recently deceased author of The Catcher in the Rye. Mike Fleming, who has actually seen the film, had this to say about some of the film’s revelations:
There also are details of: his WWII soldiering in Normandy and interrogation of Nazi prisoners; his love affair with Eugene O’Neill’s daughter Oona, and the crushing disappointment of losing her to Charlie Chaplin while Salinger fought in Europe; Salinger’s habit of locking himself away in his New Hampshire cinderblock bunker for weeks at a time to write; his penchant for taking a week to craft a single sentence; the damage his silences caused his family; the futile efforts of friends to re-introduce him to the world; Salinger’s protectiveness towards his work; his refusal to sell anything to Hollywood, turning down 8-figure offers and first-class filmmakers like Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg; his determination to maintain total control over his prose (so that when a New Yorker editor once added a comma, Salinger never spoke to him again).
Even more intriguing, Salerno’s documentary also reports on what J.D. Salinger literary works might be in the famed secret vault, where 45 years of unpublished writings are rumored to be kept.
Of course, those rumored unpublished works are what make academics’ hearts beat faster. The film was financed by, directed and produced by Shane Salerno, a 37-year-old screenwriter whose day job is writing the screenplay for James Cameron’s Fantastic Voyage. Salerno’s research is said to be intense: he interviewed 150 people and co-wrote (with David Shields) a 700 page companion book to be released at the same time as the film.
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RIP JD
Post from Alex Wire
Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:48 pm
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If you really want to hear about it, I am one of those people who, after reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, “went around for months afterwards being Holden”. Years later I even confused my friends by signing up to Facebook under a C…
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Lettering tattoo-convey your message to the world
Post from Mike hussey
Friday, January 29, 2010, 1:07 pm
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Lettering tattoo is the tattoos that have sayings or some personal writings that are attach to your heart deeply. You can also dedicate these letters to your loved ones or just have it for yourself.They are often done on the back or the upper arm of yo…
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Pisces Tattoo-Show off Your Creative Flair
Post from Mike hussey
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:58 pm
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Persons born in 20th February to 20th March are more prone to having Pisces Tattoo. Youths having the Pisces Zodiac signs wear Pisces tattoo in legs, arms, chests, back portions, upper buttocks, and shoulders.Pisces tattoo bearers are artistic, romanti…
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I Could Not Wait For Midnight
Post from Writers Anonymous
Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:26 am
Read more: Uncategorized, Writing
The weekly writing prompts have returned! This week’s prompt was “I could not wait for midnight.”
It’s a bit darker than most of my pieces, but for some reason, it seemed to fit. Enjoy!
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I could not wait for midnight.
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t excited for anything. In fact, the night I had planned was mediocre [...]
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The iconoclastic heritage of JD Salinger
Post from Lasting Tribute
Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:56 am
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On Lasting Tribute I often have to write about the deaths of my literary heroes, and today I have the sad duty to report on the passing of JD Salinger.Best known sole novel The Catcher in the Rye but also a fantastic short story writer, Salinger is one…
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The iconoclastic heritage of JD Salinger
Post from Lasting Tribute
Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:56 am
Read more: Writing
On Lasting Tribute I often have to write about the deaths of my literary heroes, and today I have the sad duty to report on the passing of JD Salinger.Best known sole novel The Catcher in the Rye but also a fantastic short story writer, Salinger is one…
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Rosary Ankle Tattoo-Devotional Adornment
Post from Mike hussey
Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:07 am
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Coming from the Latin word ‘rosarium’ that means garland of roses, Rosary ankle tattoo is worn by females around the world in belief of a timeless symbol of Catholicism.The beads in Rosary ankle tattoo are arranged in such a way as to depict the differ…
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J.D. Salinger Dead at 91
Post from Writers Write
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:50 am
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J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey has died. He was 91. The Seattle Post Intelligencer wrote in its obituary:
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son said in a statement from Salinger’s longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
“The Catcher in the Rye,” with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made “Catcher” a featured selection, advised that for “anyone who has ever brought up a son” the novel will be “a source of wonder and delight — and concern.”
Enraged by all the “phonies” who make “me so depressed I go crazy,” Holden soon became American literature’s most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn. The novel’s sales are astonishing — more than 60 million copies worldwide — and its impact incalculable. Decades after publication, the book remains a defining expression of that most American of dreams: to never grow up.
The cause of Salinger’s death is unknown. The AP reports that he died of “natural causes.”
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This and That
Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 9:43 pm
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Sorry I have been missing in action here on the blog lately. Since I got back from NY last week, I have been tied up with various personal matters and rewrites on a spec feature script which, I am pleased…
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Stories behind the Stories
Post from routepublishing
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 3:31 pm
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A series of small interviews with the authors featured in The Route Book at Bedtime has been posted on route-online.com The Route Book at Bedtime (Route 22) is a book of 12 stories that aims to capture those moments of deep emotional significance which return to us in our dreams. But what is the story behind the stories? In this feature, 10 of the authors talk about the inspiration behind the work. Here are a few samples.
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