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Floating Worlds 27 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
When a really nice person from Pomegranate sent me an email to inquire if I would be interested in reviewing any of their books and suggested perhaps Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and P...
Contents Under Pressure 26 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Today Bookman and I had a canning adventure. Last week I mentioned we went to the urban farm store and got ourselves a pressure canner and canning jars. We have so many beans in the freezer and so man...
Writer as Reader 23 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
In my internet wanderings yesterday I had a very interesting confluence of articles from two very different websites about two very different writers, but they both said the same important thing about...
Tristram Shandy 22 Aug 2013 | 04:54 am
Ah, Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. There has already been plenty of clever things said about the book so I don’t think I need to keep puzzling my head to try and say something clever or comment o...
Would You Be a Book Award Judge? 21 Aug 2013 | 04:04 am
If you had a chance to be a judge for a book award, would you? The Minnesota Book awards is now accepting applications for judges. Anyone can be a judge. Well, not anyone. If you are an author of one...
How Important is an Author’s Biography? 20 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am
The Poetry Foundation has an essay called The Lives of Lorine Niedecker: How Important is a Poet’s Biography?. I had never heard of Niedecker before but she sounds like an interesting woman and poet, ...
Urban Farming 19 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
Summer is making a comeback this week. It’s currently 82F (28C) and will get a few degrees warmer before the day is done. Tomorrow though, tomorrow we are expecting 90F (32C) and more of the same or c...
The Art of Handwriting 15 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
Get out some paper and dust off your pen because the Smithsonian’s The Art of Handwriting online exhibit (via Like Fire) will make you itch to write a letter or at the least a short note. The exhibit...
Turtle Diary 14 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Russell Hoban was an American expat writer who lived in London from 1969 until his death in 2011. You may be familiar with some of his work already. He is the author of the Frances the Badger series, ...
August Reading, Now With High Hopes 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
How does time manage to feel like it has flown by and yet still feel like it is going along at a regular pace or even passing slowly? That’s how I feel about summer. It is August already and I want to...
