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Some of you know I was an editorial assistant at one of the Big Name publishers in Boston in my first post-college job. Every morning, I’d stop at Dunkin’ Donuts for a large coffee and two glazed donuts, ride from Cambridge to Park Street on the MBTA, spill out with the hordes into Boston [Continue reading] It’s official. Snooki’s ‘novel’ – A Shore Thing – is out. I first wrote about it in October with You want tanning spray with that bestseller? As she says on this interview (found at The 5 Most Ridiculous Things about Snooki’s New Novel): “My castmates are very surprised that I’m an [Continue reading] The December issue of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature: Southern Fiction, Essays, Poetry & more Since 1995 is now available online. I love this publication — it’s quirky, wide-ranging, eccentric and really interesting reading. I would love the Dead Mule no matter what — but the fact is, one of my [Continue reading] …perfect baking weather, in my mind. So I made apricot-orange oat scones and then, since the kitchen was already a mess, cranberry chocolate chip cookies. C’mon over. I just put on a pot of coffee. I was awake a lot during the night since bands of rain kept slamming the bedroom windows. [Continue reading] I went to a great panel discussion this past week as part of my local university’s annual Writers Week. It featured Jay Varner, a Creative Writing MFA graduate here who just published his memoir, Nothing Left to Burn, and Jay’s editor, Chuck Adams at Algonquin Books. Adams also edited Sara Gruen’s Like Water [Continue reading] Joyce Carol Oates is going to be speaking here next week and I’m looking forward to hearing her. But here’s the thing: I’ve hated everything I’ve ever read by her. I plowed through a couple of her novels many years ago when I was in a depressing period of my life, and [Continue reading] |
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