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• Gold Leaf (A.S. Byatt, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, The Arabian Nights, and the tyranny of “fast-paced” fiction)

  November 13, 2009

  • A.S. Byatt, in her delicious, capacious, didactic, magical, magisterial new novel, The Children’s Book, both makes/recreates a world and tells a long, rich story. I confess that, though I love many minimalist works, this is the kind of writing that brought me into a life of reading and writing stories, helping other writers figure out how to tell their stories, spending many evenings in ...
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• LitCrawl

  September 21, 2009

  • One of my favorite parties of the year is always LitCrawl -- how fabulous to be a writer and reader in a community of writers and readers! LitCrawl, Phase 2: Saturday, Oct. 17 , Phase 2: 7:15-8:15 pmHer Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper, 3520 20thEast-Meets-West “Be”-In: Faculty & Friends of the Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry MFA Program at the California Institute of Integral ...
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• Aesthetic Distance by Carolyn Cooke

  May 7, 2009

  • Today all I want to do is to include a link to a brilliant story, "Aesthetic Discipline," by Carolyn Cooke, a part of the series "Fifty-two Stories with Cal Morgan." I don't want to give away too much but will just let anyone coming across this inhabit the story directly. Here's the description from the site: Here is another brand-new story—this one from the acclaimed ...
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