Artspace is looking for feedback on creating space for artists in Tallahassee. Writers, this means you too. Wouldn’t it be great to have a haven to go to? When I responded to the survey I said we needed a little space, data lines, and coffee. I could even bring my own coffee. The following is […]
This morning I created Twitterprose, a microblog for great lines from creative nonfiction, updated once every day. Twitterprose owes its inspiration to Twitterlit, which has been seducing me for weeks with first lines to wonderful novels. I felt creative nonfiction needed some twitterlove and that I was the person meant to open her heart to […]
Over the weekend I wrote about the threat to small and independent publishers from proposed postal rate hikes, which if not challenged will go into effect July 15, forcing subscription hikes and possibly causing some publications to fold. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an editorial co-authored by Teresa Stack, president of The Nation, and […]
[updated 5-26-07 with minor corrections and expansion.] This is what I am increasingly thinking of as a “librarian-forward” issue, one that every reader of this blog can get behind–librarians, library workers, writers, readers, global kibitzers. The United States Postal Service has unveiled a complex new postal rate plan that, as Ms. Magazine puts it, “unfairly […]
An FRL reader sent me a message yesterday politely chiding me for using hyphens in place of dashes. Gentle Reader is correct, but please let me whine: it’s not my fault. The irony is that few things peeve me more–with the possible exception of its/it’s confusion–than hyphens used in lieu of dashes. And in that […]
Earlier this year I announced that one essay from my collection, “Chow,” had been accepted for publication by a literary journal (and you can bet I beat that to death with a stick in the 20-plus submissions I’ve sent in this month). Today I had news that “David, Just as he was” has been accepted, […]
“… if newspapers are dying, then blogs are the maggots come to feast upon their corpses.” Like many biblioholics, I always fall–sometimes literally–for a good book review. I tripped on the treadmill last week laughing over Anthony Gottlieb’s review of God is Not Great, a review which not only seduced me into thinking about reading […]
“The gun feels much too good.† I was reading the first, early news about the Virginia Tech killings, feeling disgusted by anyone who could inflict such damage on anyone else but smug in my psychic distance from the killer, when my eyes locked on one phrase: …9 millimeter Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol…  My throat went […]
I sent this in to the Tallahassee Writer’s Association newsletter, but heck–why not post it here and see what floats up? Feel free to share elsewhere. Seeking (or prepared to establish) a local Tallahassee-area workshop for serious writers of creative nonfiction (essays, memoir, nonfiction stories, travel writing, etc.) working on short or book-length manuscripts and […]
I have this feature on my blog that displays “On This Day” posts from previous years. Mostly I ignore these because I think I know what I said. But today’s post from 2004, about not having a summer vacation, intrigued me. Now I’m really uplifted, even a bit teary, which really has to stop as […]