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Dec 06 2006
Aesthetic Reflux
In my last blog I mentioned that the serious novel began to get new models in the 1920s. While there has been a great variety among types of novels over… read more
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Dec 05 2006
In Praise of Words
I stayed home a day or so ago. My son had a fever, so I worked quietly on editing two stories that were a delight to take a pencil to.… read more
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Dec 04 2006
Costa Book Award nominees announced
The short list of nominees for the annual Costa Book Awards, formerly known as the Whitbread Prize, has been released. To be eligible, authors must be based in the UK… read more
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Dec 04 2006
Reference Anxiety: When Enough Isn't Enough
Recently the subject of happiness has received a lot of attention from psychologists, economists, and historians. Invariably, the discussion turns toward whether money brings happiness. Of course, no one denies… read more
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Nov 28 2006
Seeking publication, our authors find relationship
Aw shucks. I blushed when I read Evelyn Roger’s Nov. 16 blog, “People of Social or Intellectual Distinction.” Apparently, my “nicely gray” hair puts me in a class of distinction… read more
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Nov 27 2006
The Working Novel
For this and one or two other blogs I’m going to speculate about what might be called the slowly decreasing physicality of the novel. For its first 150 years, the… read more
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Nov 17 2006
The End of an Affair
Recently, as the result of a long, unpleasant battle with acid reflux, a battle I fought bravely for years, my doctor advised, no instructed, me to give up caffeine. I… read more
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Nov 16 2006
"People of Social or Intellectual Distinction"
Sometimes you have to whine about things. For a couple of days now I’ve been whining about the fact that tomorrow the TMR editors and Marketing Director are going to… read more
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Nov 16 2006
Neustadt Prize
In case you missed it, Nicaraguan/Salvadoran writer Claribel Alegría was selected as the winner of the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The $50,000 prize is awarded biennially by Oklahoma… read more
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Nov 15 2006
Another One We Didn't Publish
A friend asked me about my last blog regarding sex, sensationalism, and brutality in American history and politics. Where do I get this idea that things don’t really change so… read more