Hello all! Below are links to new posts since the last update. See you next week!
“o” at Behold the Stars read The John Keats poem “Endymion” check out http://beholdthestars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/endymion-by-john-keats.html#comment-form to discover if a thing of beauty really is a joy forever… 🙂
Dale at Mirror With Clouds discovered Louisa May Alcott’s story “The Brothers” https://mirrorwithclouds.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/louisa-may-alcott-the-brothers/
I read my second story from the anthology “The New Black”, this one being Benjamin Percy’s excellent “Dial Tone” https://bibliophilica.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/dial-tone-by-benjamin-percy/
Kay at Darling Books provides an update of cards drawn recently http://deadbookdarling.com/2015/03/monday-reading-march-16th-2015.html
James at James Reads Books posted about two non-fiction pieces by Joan Didion: “John Wayne: A Love Song” and “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” http://jamesreadsbooks.com/2015/03/18/joan-didion-vs-joan-didion-john-wayne-a-love-song-and-slouching-towards-bethlehem/
Jason at Literature Frenzy read Haruki Murakami’s “Super Frog Saves Tokyo” http://literaturefrenzy.blogspot.com/2015/03/deal-me-in-challenge-super-frog-saves.html
John-Paul at The Reader Regards Himself drew the king of clubs and read Thomas Wolfe’s “The Birth of New Journalism” http://readerregards.blogspot.co.nz/2015/03/the-birth-of-new-journalism-tom-wolfe.html
Katherine read “The Gentlemanfrom San Francisco” by Ivan Bunin https://katenread.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/deal-me-in-week-2-the-gentleman-from-san-francisco/
Next up in the batting order for Randall at Time Enough at Last was “Batting Against Castro” by Jim Shephard http://timeenuf.blogspot.com/2015/03/deal-me-in-week-12-batting-against.html
And an “extra” this week:
Exciting news about someone who knows a little about publishing short stories: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/18/stephen-king-writing-insights-bazaar-of-bad-dreams
Paula Cappa said,
March 24, 2015 at 8:43 am
That Stephen King article is quite good. I didn’t know about A Death in the New Yorker. Can’t wait to read it. Thanks, Jay.
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Jay said,
March 24, 2015 at 1:33 pm
I thought it was interesting too. I’m often leery of when writers decide to tell you the “How I Came to Write This Story” story. King is one, however, who has done this (without being annoying) enough in the past that I trust him to do it again.
I also read his “On Writing” book many years ago and – though not a creative writer myself – found it a fascinating glimpse into one writer’s creative process.
I haven’t read the story in The New Yorker yet, either (though I’m a subscriber), but I see it in my future.
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