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How to Get a Book Written 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
1. Don’t wait for inspiration to strike. The photographer/ painter Chuck Close said, “Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.” 2. For first drafts, quantity is better...
Open Letters Monthly, August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
Forget about the dog days—this is the time of year that turns August from a proper noun into an adjective. And there’s nearly a week left in which to read the August (in both senses of the word) issue...
Barbara Messud: The Excellent Women Upstairs 26 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
She’s an ordinary woman leading a quiet life – no thrills, no romance, few expectations, just her work, her friends, and the comforting knowledge that everyone relies on her common sense. In a crisis,...
The Reader as Writer: Giraldi and His Gratuitous Grumblings 25 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
I don’t teach creative writing classes or attend MFA workshops or writers’ conferences, so I have no first-hand experience of the lamentable species William Giraldi is so annoyed about in his recent e...
The Browsing Algorithm 24 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Charles Simic has one of his gently bookish rants up at the NYRBlog, on a subject that’s always near and dear to my heart: the uncertain future of browsing. The gradual shuttering of used bookstores a...
Interview: Drinking Buddies Writer-Director Joe Swanberg 23 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
For almost a decade, Detroit-born, Chicago-based film maker Joe Swanberg has been one of the leading figures in the micro-budget, naturalistic “mumblecore” film “movement.” (Though Swanberg and every...
Book Review: Planet Without Apes 23 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am
Planet Without Apes By Craig B. Stanford The Belknap Press (Harvard), 2013 Craig Stanford, co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California, has written a se...
Comics: The End of the Legion 23 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
DC Comics is currently in the middle of a big readership-grabbing multi-issue crossover event called “Trinity War,” and that big event is going to blend into the next, something called “Forever Evi...
Thank God Kick-Ass 2 Stinks So Bad 23 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
I was worried that Kick-Ass 2 might come somewhere close to the subversive fun, aesthetic coolness, and philosophically deranged comic-book glee of the first Kick-Ass movie in 2010. You see, all this...
AAAIIEEOO! 22 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Allow me to misremember where I first saw Russ Manning’s artwork. I’d say it was a Magnus, Robot Fighter cover–but not an original, from the 1963 Gold Key series. It would’ve been from the Valiant rel...
