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The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Boston, MA (October 2009) -- In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and with permission of the author’s estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. The Shirley Jackson Awards are voted upon by a jury of professional writers, editors, critics, and academics,...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The long list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is now available: 156 authors from 46 countries, with 41 books originally written in 17 languages other than English (a decent percentage). Among the finalists are a good number (eighteen) under review at the complete review : Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel Chicago by Alaa Al...
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Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Todd Mason forwarded me the following list of writers' favorite scary stories. I reply after the list Martin Morse Wooster reports to the FictionMags list: In their October 28 WASHINGTON POST fiction page, the editors of BOOK WORLD asked writers, "What story scares the hell out of you?" Anne Rice: M.R. James, "Count Magnus" Scott Smith: Stewart O'Nan, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING Douglas...
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Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Tropper , author of This Is Where I Leave You and Stewart O'Nan , author of Songs for the Missing. Download audio . (Broadcast date: October 07, 2009)
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Blades Out (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Grub Street , a Boston-area non-profit creative writing center, has an annual " From the Desk Of " postcard auction, where they mail 30 authors blank 5x7 postcards and give them free reign to do whatever they want to them. The resulting artwork is offered up for auction on their site - grubstreet.org . This year's amazing crop includes postcards by Alice Hoffman (her postcard is seen here),...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:40 a.m. Thursday CHICAGO -- The Hacker Clapper has been unmasked. I refer, of course, to the solitary fan who applauded for Eric Hacker upon making his major league debut last week at PNC Park. Right after describing this, I put out a plea in this blog for someone to track this person down and, lo and behold, we reaped the fruits of victory with a couple of emails. First, I...
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On books; On writing; On living. Sometimes, poems... (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
So what lessons can I take away from Stewart O’Nan’s Last Night At The Lobster as a writer studying other writers to become a better writer? I couldn’t sympathize with the main character. In fact, I found him annoying. I didn’t feel like the no-plot plot worked. So, what is there to draw from? I’m mulling over this. In fact, it’s making me a little crazy, because...
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Paperback Writer (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Ten Things About Writing Jobs & Sub Ops Asylum.com, a men’s lifestyle web site, is looking for reporters to hire and contribute to the site , and are okay with telecommuters. From the Craigslist ad: "Areas of interest include weird news, science, food, true crime, sex, politics, video games, entertainment and travel. We’re looking for writers who can report original stories and...
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Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Ooooh, here's something I forgot existed, an online chat I did for Event Horizon in January, 1999, just a few months after The Blue Place was published. It was fun to meet my younger self again. (Via Free SF Reader .) Also, go check out the other chats with writers such as Connie Willis, Peter Straub, Stewart O'Nan, Pat Cadigan, and William Goldman. There's some good stuff.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
``I'll go with Steven Millhauser's latest story collection Dangerous Laughter. Mad, baroque, tantalizing, whimsical. He's an American master and often overlooked because he's been one for nearly forty years.''
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Like a Salvation Army staffed by brilliant writers, Significant Objects has created a new kind of online journal--publishing and selling on eBay. The new site pairs a writer with an odd object--a mug, a child's game, or a ceramic cat. The author writes a story about the object, and the object and story are sold on eBay to the highest bidder. The amazing author list includes Luc Sante , Lydia Millet...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
The website Five Chapters, started in 2006, each week "publishes a five-part story, serial-style, Monday through Friday. It's Charles Dickens for the 21st century. And what's more, [founder Dave Daley] has managed to attract some of the country's hottest writers, including Stewart O'Nan, Arthur Phillips, Curtis Sittenfeld, John Wray, Wells Tower, Julia Glass, Darin Strauss, Jay McInerney and Kate...
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Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
… and how they got that way . From the site, curated by Josh Glenn and Rob Walker: THE IDEA A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay! A whole bunch of writers, including but not limited...
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verbatim (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The other day I read Stewart O'Nan's tiny little gem of a novel, Last Night at the Lobster, all in one sitting. It tells the story of Manny DeLeon, the dedicated and sensitive manager of a Red Lobster restaurant in...
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View from the Kitchen (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
This is an amazing book and I don't think I'm biased since I actually wore a Red Lobster name tag at one point in my life. It is great writing. If you've ever worked in a restaurant you'll relate and if you haven't, you're offered a window into the world backstage, the prepping of lunch/ dinner, how much they think of you before and after you sit in their booth. Stewart O'Nan does an incredible job...
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