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Trailer Park Tuesday: More Than This by Patrick Ness 27 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Welcome to Trailer Park Tuesday, a showcase of new book trailers and, in a few cases, previews of book-related movies. (Click the YouTube icon to embiggen) The trailer for Patrick Ness' More Than Th...
My First Time: Mitchell Jackson 26 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
My First Time is a regular feature in which writers talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers, ranging from their first rejection to the moment of holding their first publi...
Sunday Sentence: The Cineaste by A. Van Jordan 25 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
Simply put, the best sentence(s) I've read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. It's so easy to laugh at the banana peels laid before the lives of others. from "Metropoli...
Celebrating the 1,000th Quiver of My Pen 25 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
I woke up this morning feeling very milestone-y. According to my Blogger statistics, this is the 1,000th post here at The Quivering Pen since I started blogging on May 2, 2010 ("And so it begins...")...
Good Medicine: A Tribute to Elmore Leonard 25 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
Car bombs exploded in Baghdad neighborhoods that summer like synchronized cannons. Bodies incinerated. Engine parts whizzed through the air like hot boomerangs. Smoke, fire. Death, destruction, ch...
How to Tell a War Story: The Tender Soldier by Vanessa Gezari 24 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
The Tender Soldier by Vanessa Gezari Reviewed by Jerri Bell "Afghans...value stories for reasons that have nothing to do with the information they contain," writes journalist Vanessa Gezari. And rea...
Friday Freebie: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, edited by Sarah Weinman 23 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Congratulations to Mike Hooker, Christine LaRue, and Drew Broussard, winners of last week's Friday Freebie contest: Tumbledown by Robert Boswell. This week's book giveaway is the exciting new short-s...
Front Porch Books: August 2013 Edition 22 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
Front Porch Books is a monthly tally of books--mainly advance review copies (aka "uncorrected proofs" and "galleys")--I've received from publishers, but also sprinkled with packages from Book Mooch, A...
Trailer Park Tuesday: Night Film by Marisha Pessl 20 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Welcome to Trailer Park Tuesday, a showcase of new book trailers and, in a few cases, previews of book-related movies. The trailer for Marisha Pessl's sophomore novel Night Film has gotten so much ai...
My First Time: Doreen McGettigan 19 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
My First Time is a regular feature in which writers talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers, ranging from their first rejection to the moment of holding their first publi...
