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Friday, January 27, 2012 at 3:11PM I've heard from some friends that the Vimeo version of Nikky Finney's speech doesn't work for them, so I am posting the YouTube version, too, because this speech is too good to miss.
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 9:56AM Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 6:17PM I just finished reading an article in The Nation, by Elisabeth Sifton, which appeared in the June 8, 2009 edition:
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes
Sifton's essay is a must read for all book lovers -- readers and writers alike. Her essay details the current state of the publishing world from an insider's perspective; Sifton is the senior vice president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She is also an author: The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War (Norton). She packs a lot of information in the essay, providing a radiant light on the writer as krill in the book's disrupted publishing chain.
Highly recommended.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 12:27PM Reality is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How They Can Change the World, by Jane McGonigal
Alone - The Classic Polar Adventure, by Admiral Richard E. Byrd
Ever since I read Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, http://amzn.com/0679457526 I can't get enough of these adventure stories. I've just started on the one by Byrd. Part of what draws me to these stories is trying to figure out what motivates them to face such hardships, once they come eye to eye with the enormity -- and the sheer odds of failing -- that the project presents. I get the desire, the planning, the packing, the juggling of funds to start the adventure. I even get the day to day of it. I keep saying that writing a novel is like climbing a mountain. I think we share the same kind of heart, but mine demands constant coffee and temperature control!