"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde
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- Not the Bestseller Book Club
199 Main Street, Falmouth, MA 02540
Today, December 2 at 5:30pm
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- Writers on Writing 10:00am Dec 1
- Gift Tips for the Bookish:Toys Action Figures Collectible Figurines 9:00am Dec 1
- Tuesday's Tips for Flailing Writers 5:00am Dec 1
The title says it best: Why Writing Rubbish is ProductiveFiction Notes details the two types of feedback, as well as the five reactions to it.Writing blogs are currently obsessed with correct comma usage. Don't believe me...
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."Samuel McChord Crothers
December means holidays! Holidays mean gifts! Gifts mean otherwise avoidable stress-related illnesses, as good gift ideas inevitably dry up the closer you get to your pagan festival of choice. Ah, but fear not...
'Tis the last day of the next to the last month of the year. While this monumental day in your monthly calendar's countdown to extinction inevitably brings with it a sh*toad of personal, financial and familial regrets, it also ushers in a sh*tload of 'Best Of' book lists...
Wishful Drinking by Carrie FisherOne Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca MeadSpent by Geoffrey MillerFangland by John MarksTwelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist by Jô SoaresValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline SusannGaffney's minimalist approach is apparent on his ...
Calvino’s Italian Folktales is now my favorite folktale collection. It is a huge paperback with hundreds of stories in it, which average about two pages each. ...
Books On The Nightstand Our friends at the Inkwell Bookstore have compiled this comprehensive list of Best of 2009 Lists. Check it out!!
inkwellbookstore.blogspot.com
Mon at 6:17am
Daryl Cagle must be as unhealthily obsessed with Sarah Palin as I am. Why else would he have compiled 30 Editorial Cartoons Lampooning Palin's Book Tour?Eff Thanksgiving...
This Week's Best Comics Links(a.k.a. your last bit of joy before fighting with your effed-up family)
The Yaoi Review hands the reigns over to its straight-girls-who-love-gay-guys readers, asking them to suggest the best and worst books for all-ages, y-curious readers.The 1975 manga version of Jaws is nuts. For two sick samples, click here and here...
Anthony Bourdain on Authors@Google
Ray Bradbury offers a bit of advice to flailing writers: Flail more.Masturbate to this: Rants & Ramblings' How Book Royalties Work.I'm not sure how scientific this list is, but it feels fairly feasible. Wordplay's Top 7 Reasons Readers Stop Reading...
Nice Girls Do author Sarah Duncan says 'Enough with the Bad Sex Awards -- where's the squishy, squirming, interlocking Good Sex Trophies?!'Local bard makes good. Providence poet Keith Waldrop won a National Book Award for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy...
Writer Fabian Nicieza's Cable & Deadpool was a 50 issue 'buddy-movie' starring the Marvel Universe's equivalents of Jesus Christ and Bugs Bunny...
Trashing a book to tell a story. It doesn't sound like it would work, but the results speak for themselves.(Via: Cartoon Brew)
