Monday, April 30, 2012

Fitzgerald Walking Tour

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Check out this F. Scott Fitzgerald walking tour in St Paul, Minnesota: http://home.comcast.net/~caudle2/fscotwlk.htm You don’t even hav...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Work in Progress: How to Chat Up a Writer

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Out in the real world of the happy hour/reception/party/wedding/holiday gathering, there are plenty of people who don’t care that you’re ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Link Corral: Executive Director Job; Write What You Know?; Poetry on Redux

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The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to advance the art and craft of writing by enco...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

My Story in The Crab Orchard Review, Now Online

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The Crab Orchard Review just posted a PDF file of its “Land of Lincoln” issue in which my story, “The Chicago Brother” appears.   This pie...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Conversations and Connections Conference Report

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I spoke at the Conversations & Connections conference at Johns Hopkins in Washington, DC, on Saturday.   This may be my favorite local...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Work in Progress: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners

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From “Writing Short Stories”~~ “Another thing I observed about these stories is that most of them don’t go very far inside a character,...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Link Corral: Grammar Wars Over "Hopefully"; New on Redux

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From the frontlines of the grammar wars:   The AP stylebook has approved the modern usage of “hopefully” to mean “it is hoped.”   It used t...