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We are, by nature, pacifistic. It’s that lazy thing we suffer from. So it’s surprising and painful to discover we’re feeling oozy, icky hatred. Not the hot, passionate kind. This is more the type that will spread and fester. Yes, thanks to a helpful friend, we have finally read an author interview that pisses us off in an ugly way. And we have hours to go before we can drink. A few choice quotes as a preview: They say everyone has at least one book inside them. But is it true? Could we all turn our hands to writing best […]

Since our mother doesn’t read our blog, we’re comfortable discussing her freely. Today, we’d like to talk about the time she was feverishly working in the library, processing discards. You know, those books that must be cleared from the shelves so new books can take their place (elementary school libraries are notable for their lack of space, and, as noted, physical buildings don’t expand). She, by her own account, was in the zone. Yes, we wish she wouldn’t be in places like that, but what can you do? You can’t watch them all the time. Discard, discard, discard. What is

People are flying into town at various times over the weekend, and we’re going to be playing chauffeur (cute hat, snappy attitude, excellent sense of direction) and host (see previous, minus sense of direction). Something tells us we’ll also be required to make scintillating conversation. Webster’s isn’t clear on the definition of host-with-the-most, but we suspect it precludes spending long hours at our computer. So things may be light for the next few days. We feel your distress…heck, we’re INTJ. This is torture for us. We have a bunch of editor and publisher news that we’ll try to sneak in

The tough get weird. We were warned not to read this article. Then we figured, what the heck, we have a full bottle of wine at the ready. So we did. We wish we could express shock. Instead, we feel the author’s pain; we also wonder how far we’d go in the same situation. We’ve talked about this, from various angles, quite a bit lately. We still believe there’s a place for what The Literary Reader calls the “better ones”, and we think authors need to think outside tradition. TLR explores alternatives for publishing. And we think he’s right. If

No. Really, you do. Eventually. Being a starving artist is only glamorous when you’re young. The Elegant Variation seems intrigued by the subject matter (by the way, starting to save for your old age at 50 is a bad idea; trust us); we’re more shocked that after the failed experiment involving Nathaniel West and F. Scott Fitzgerald, another generation of literary writers could be lured to Hollywood. While the article offers practical advice (we’ve linked to other stories from this series because we like cautionary tales), we liked this quote especially: He spent the next two decades living well on