Errol Lincoln Uys's Posts
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September 12, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
I would like to introduce Commentopia to my Gather friends. My megablog is inspired by my work as a writer and editor, including my role as founder and editor-in-chief of an . . .
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December 29, 2008 10:10 AM EST --
When I talk to friends about the idea of writing my American novel "live" on the Internet, their response ranges from "A-mazing!" to an adamant, "I'll never . . .
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December 16, 2008 09:19 PM EST --
"Tears ran down my cheeks as I remembered a Christmas Day when I was the age of those children."
Born on a farm in Nebraska in 1916, Donald Newhouser was one of 250,000 American boys and . . .
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November 12, 2008 09:45 PM EST --
Norma Darrah hopped her first freight at Owatonna, Minnesota, on a bleak winter's night in March 1938. Eighteen-year-old Norma was traveling with Curly, her husband of seven months, and his 13-year-old . . .
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November 08, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
Berkeley Hackett made his first trip in 1929 at 13, riding with his stepfather from Flint, Michigan to Kalamazoo to get a summer job working in a coal yard at 25 cents an hour. A year later, Berkeley . . .
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September 26, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
In 1929, James San Jule's father was a successful businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. San Jule graduated from Tulsa Central High School and had been accepted at Amherst college in Massachusetts, . . .
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August 22, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
As an editor and writer who saw his first published story set in hot metal, I marvel at Amazon's new Kindle reader and its role in the future of the "printed" word.
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August 12, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
Over the years, I've received many wonderful letters and e-mails from readers of my novel, Brazil. These excerpts are from ten of my favorites, words of appreciation that make my epic literary . . .
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May 09, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
HEMINGWAY or FITZGERALD?
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December 06, 2007 05:58 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
This unique . . .
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December 06, 2007 05:25 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
This unique . . .
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December 06, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
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December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
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August 08, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
The sale of the slaves driven from the north of Brazil was concluded and the overseers stepped up to claim their new charges.
Suddenly there was a shout and a boy next to Patient Anthony scrambled to . . .
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August 08, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
On the last stage of the journey, one theme dominated the concerns of Patient Anthony and other slaves: the senhor to whom they would be sold.
Policarpo was in his late twenties. He'd had two masters . . .
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August 08, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
The Portuguese bought Patient Anthony for three hundred milreis, the equivalent at the time of one hundred and fifty dollars, a good price for a slave boy in the backlands.
The slaver was Saturnino Rabelo, . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
Patient Anthony was eight years old on a day in August 1855 when he learned a terrible lesson.
Until then, the dark-skinned mulatto boy had known no shame at being naked and often raced bare-bottomed . . .
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July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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June 13, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Every writer has a favorite review of his or her book, not filled with words of vacuous hype or empty praises but a critical appreciation of the contents that got it right. Plus the fact . . .
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