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Scott C. Holstad's Blog
November 15, 2009
- I have long been a huge fan of Charles Bukowski. Indeed, I've rarely -- if ever -- met a bigger fan, although I'm sure such exists. I have a number of books, and a Bukowski t-shirt, he personally autographed for me when he was alive and we were corresponding. When he died in March 1994, I was deeply saddened, although I'd known he'd been in the hospital, was in his 70s and his health was ...
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November 6, 2009
- My favorite bookstore. Gosh, where to start? I guess I’ll start at the top (my top, at least).I grew up admiring the Beats. I seriously dug Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and the others, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti especially spoke to me. Thus, as an avid reader, I read about Ferlinghetti opening his own bookstore in San Francisco a number of decades ago. It was called City Lights. City ...
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October 6, 2009
- I last wrote about my wife, Jennifer, and I celebrating our sixth anniversary in Asheville, NC. That was close to a month ago. I ended the blog post about my wife getting a giant migraine, thus ending the fun times on a difficult note. Well, read on.My wife got worse, if that's possible. Her headache pain was on a scale of 10/10. She developed nausea and threw up regularly. Her joints ...
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September 8, 2009
- This past weekend, Jennifer and I celebrated our sixth anniversary together! I had decided some time ago to take her to Asheville NC for the long weekend, as we'd never been there, and we'd heard it was funky and nice. So, off we went. I made numerous pre-arrangements, and the first (and perhaps the best) was that we stayed at a lovely (and incredibly expensive!) B&B called the 1889 WhiteGate ...
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August 24, 2009
- I think I'll cut & paste this online article about Google Books into this blog entry. Here's the URL: http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/21/technology/google_books/index.htm. I'm curious to know what other writers out there think of this issue, particularly now that Google has settled with The Authors Guild.... Anyone? Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google BooksThree Google rivals ...
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June 24, 2009
- Santa Monica poet and mother to Marina Bukowski, Charles Bukowski's only child, Frances Dean Smith (FrancEyE) died a couple of weeks ago at age 87. She was popularized by Bukowski as "Old Snaggle-Tooth" in at least one of his poems.
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June 11, 2009
- Read this story and gasp in horror: http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2009/05/funding_cuts_threaten_louisian.html
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May 18, 2009
- My wife and I have been searching for our first ever home since January. See, I've moved all over the country, some 25 times or so, and have never settled anywhere long enough to buy a house. That's changed. We found a great one in February. Got into a bidder's war. Lost out on it, even though we offered more. The other party could close sooner than we could. Found another one, ...
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March 3, 2009
- I got this message from the Authors Guild late last night. It might prove interesting and/or informative to you authors out there.... We have two major developments to bring you up to date on. The first development involves Amazon's Kindle 2 reading device and the second pertains to our freelance class-action settlement (a settlement entirely independent of the settlement in our lawsuit ...
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January 19, 2009
- HELL YEAH!!! My Pittsburgh Steelers are in the Super Bowl AGAIN! Second time in four years, and seventh time overall. With a 5-1 Super Bowl record, the Steelers can become the first team in the NFL to win six Super Bowls. Sweet!First of all, in the NFC Championship Game, the upstart Arizona Cardinals beat the favored Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 to go to their first Super Bowl ever. I like ...
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January 15, 2009
- [I normally do not endorse book contests, and choose not to enter them myself, but as it seems to be the standard method for getting one's poetry book published these days, I thought I'd pass this info along....] BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE $2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET Submission Deadline: March 16, 2009 CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson is the author of four ...
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January 4, 2009
- One word might sum up this blog entry: impatience. Other words come to mind too, but I'll just jump right into it. Where to begin? By back in 2003, I had published 14 poetry collections since 1990. I was busy shopping my 15th, a big beast of a book, over 200 pages, which for a poetry book is pretty darn large. City Lights held on to it for eight months before saying they liked it, but ...
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December 22, 2008
- My friend, Jilly Dybka, found this depressing article online: Disappearing Jobs. She posted a link on her Poetry Hut blog. I'm re-posting it here, because I think it's really important information, particularly for new graduates with terminal degrees in English and Creative Writing especially."The number of job postings in the MLA’s Job Information List will be down 21 percent in ...
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December 2, 2008
- I received this email message from the Authors Guild yesterday and wanted to share it with other Authors Guild members who might be interested: Please join Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, for a one-hour discussion of the landmark settlement in Authors Guild v. Google. Three sessions are available: Wednesday, December 3, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern/1:00 p.m. Pacific Tuesday, ...
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November 28, 2008
- I'm blogging today for no reason. I've got nothing to say, so I'm saying it. Regarding my last post, thanks for the comments and the advice. I appreciate it. Nothing much has happened in that area over the past two weeks. I take that as a good sign. That said, I've been on an emotional rollercoaster for a while now, and I'm getting pretty tired of it. Stability would be nice at this ...
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