Thursday, October 27, 2005
Tonight — oops! now yesterday — ThinkingPeople hosted a silent candlelight vigil in honor of the 2000 U.S. military and the over 100,000 civilians killed in Iraq. About 60 people showed up and gathered near the fountain in Marion Square. Unfortunately, for reasons I am too tired to explore right now, photos won’t show here.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
In “Marcus vs. Franzen” (The latest literary wrangling in Harper’s leaves everyone confused.)” author Jess Row writes about Ben Marcus’ essay in the current issue of Harper’s, “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It” (A Correction), in a rather distorting manner. An excerpt of Marcus’ essay is [...]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Meanwhile in the U.S., the Blooker Prize is born
Raleigh, N.C. — The website Lulu.com, which enables amateur authors to publish and sell their own books, is sponsoring the first literary prize for “blooks” — or books based on blogs or websites.
A shortlist will be announced in March; the winner on April 3. The 3rd? Why [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Just started reading the thus far likeable Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide, so jumped on this TomDispatch, Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on the Surprises of 2005. It would not be fair to give them away here, so I’ll leave my note by saying that she speaks of three. (That old powerful number.)
Finally had a chance to read this month’s Skirt! magazine, the “One of a kind issue.” And was struck by this (from the editor):
When I started skirt! in 1994, I didn’t realize that I was creating my alter ego. skirt! was/is what I aspire to be…a bold, confident, not-afraid-to-fail, not-afraid-to-offend feminista/fashionista. The operative word there [...]
Unfortunately, you can’t read “Governors put focus on health with visit to church event” without registering (albeit free). It opens thus:
With health care an increasingly prominent issue across the country, two governors visited Charleston on Thursday to focus attention on a statewide effort to encourage healthy living among blacks.
It so happens that the Emmanuel AME [...]