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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
July 22, 2007
Have You Ever Thought About Ghostwriting?
Ever considered ghostwriting? For the best advice, got to England, or get this book through Amazon.uk. It is by far the best book on becoming a ghostwriter I've ever found, and is not available in the United States.
May 07, 2007
February 05, 2007
ALICE MCDERMOTT
Real writing for real women. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. Does not have warning label "May cause drowsiness" as do the books by, among others, Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler, and Sandra Cisneros.
"Eloquent...heartbreaking...McDermott is brilliant."
—The New York Times Book Review
"An astoundingly beautiful novel about the persistence of love, the perseverance of grief, and all-but-unbearable loneliness, as well as faith, loyalty and redemption."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"In Charming Billy, Ms. McDermott writes...with wisdom and grace, refusing to sentimentalize her characters even as she forces us to recognize their decency and goodness. She has written a luminous and affecting novel."
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
December 16, 2006
MIDDLE BROW TRIUMPH
Post-modernist gobblygookers beware! Yalies, Duke, NYU, UC Berkley-boasting social text credentials with narcissistic egocentric tendencies, used to letting loose at 6 bucks a drink MLA conventions letting the rest eat cake while lauding Kristeva, Gramsci, Baudrillard, et alia--admit that you love your mothers and that middle brow culture still rules after 25 years and thank god the subaltern classes don't live in your neighborhood and now that you have tenure and lament that Last Year at Marienbad never made the AFI top 100 film list and breathe a sigh of relief that you got in under the wire before undergraduates realized cultural studies would put them on the soup line unless they got your job, now is the time to repent. Sneak a read at this book and let those tears come even if it's under your blanket at 3 a.m. Remember those times in summer camp? And since you're getting too old to really get up the intellectual drive to deal with post-industrial, post-McLuhan, post postal mail issues because the younger generation has you beat, take solace your post-angst angst can find an outlet. Now's the time for your tears.
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