Tag: literary
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January 30, 2009 02:03 AM EST --
Who- when asked by a customs officer, "What have you to declare?" replied, "Only my Genius."?
Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and playwright. He was born . . .
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January 02, 2009 01:51 PM EST --
I've seen a few individual posts, but not many. I'm just curious who tried and what the best books they read were? Maybe you read all 52 and none of them were worth reading. Then, some of . . .
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September 23, 2009 03:14 PM EDT --
I haven't been around much lately, (I've been so busy I can't see straight) but as of today, had some news which is too good not to share.
A prominent, well-respected literary agent has, today, requested . . .
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May 26, 2009 08:01 PM EDT --
Here's an issue that could go right to all of our bottom lines.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that bloggers (our Gather blogs count) are increasingly being sued or threatened with legal . . .
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October 10, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
The modern novel has been killed, according to critic Dale Peck, in his essay collection aptly entitled Hatchet jobs. The culprits: James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, along with their followers. . . .
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December 06, 2008 07:28 AM EST --
Rejection. Oh, how it stings. Most of us have been through it - plenty. Seeking jobs, college admissions, love, or publication for our books. It hurts. Destroys our self image. For a while, . . .
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November 03, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Stones in Her Pockets
For
Virginia Woolf [1]
The waters of Crescent Lake are aflame with the rays . . .
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March 19, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
I sent my manuscript to The Writer's Literary Agency in my quest for an agent. Now, after attending Omega Con and listening to authors and publishers, I have definitely been leaning toward small . . .
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April 13, 2008 03:11 PM EDT --
"Their Thoughts Collided" by René A.
Thinking has its setbacks
some days
At other times
those thoughts collide
Into someone else's life
someone else's space
their . . .
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February 15, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
Points, friends, literary worth. I just read another article by someone who is starting a worthwhile group. Wow! New concept! It's not about points for this person. It's . . .
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March 06, 2008 03:39 PM EST --
After having read many hundreds of articles and comments on Gather I must come to the conclusion that a considerable number of Americans are somewhat less than functionally literate. The United . . .
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April 07, 2008 12:01 PM EDT --
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April 07, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
When I saw the headline on CNN I figured that he had won for his memoir, "Chronicles"- but I was wrong there. No, Bob Dylan was awarded a special citation from the Pulitzer prize committee for . . .
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April 15, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
JAVA Bean NEWS - HEAVYWEIGHT WRITERS SPEAK OUT!
This morning, check out two
Heavyweight Writers . . .
Laura Cushing writes in no uncertain terms . . .
"We . . .
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July 11, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
Do I Need a Literary Agent? Two Words: Hell Yeah.
The definitive way to separate oneself from being 'a waiter who writes on the side' to 'a published writer' is to land an agent . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:08 PM EST --
The Literary Game and How to Read It
There comes a time in every honest conversation about literature
between students and professors when the students' willingness to
accept . . .
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January 21, 2008 10:43 PM EST --
Anyone have a writing agent. I want to submit my play and some other work but only 10% of submissions are without agents. I didn't know this. Does anyone use an agent or know how to find one of worth? . . .
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March 03, 2009 09:35 PM EST --
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In reading older texts embedded in a time-linear development of a particular tradition, it is widely (and rather uncritically) accepted that the meaning of the text is wholly dependent on the . . .
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June 25, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
I guess they can't tell I'm real.
They walk by with barely a glance. Most of the time they only see the clothes.
Even when I used all my energy to thrust my hips forward they didn't . . .
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March 30, 2007 02:59 AM EDT --
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by the number of how-to-write books I've accumulated in my life, and by how often I still consult them. Shouldn't I have graduated by now? Do I still need to turn . . .
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