This cracked me up today … some of our greatest writers talking smack on some of our other greatest writers. This comes via Les Edgerton’s blog. My favorite is Truman Capote’s quote about Jack Kerouac: “That’s not writing. That’s typing.”
This cracked me up today … some of our greatest writers talking smack on some of our other greatest writers. This comes via Les Edgerton’s blog. My favorite is Truman Capote’s quote about Jack Kerouac: “That’s not writing. That’s typing.”
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when the puritanical and easily offended try to decide what we should and should not read: Banned Book Week. You can check out the HLN slide show here. I don’t know who makes these decisions (or why). Take a look and form your opinion. I’ll help… 1. The …
I was going to settle in and write something truly profound, maybe even, hell, inspiring. Then I saw this photo, courtesy of DudeFoods.com Blogger, posted by my Arkansas friend, Darren Reinhart (so blame him).
This is an interesting 16 minutes. Kurt Sutter discusses last week’s premiere of “Sons of Anarchy,” from his, the writer’s, perspective. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.
How long must we sing this song? This is getting to be a far too routine occurrence in America — a gunman on the loose, bodies on the floor and in the street, tactical police teams that disturbingly resemble a Marine assault squad and frenzied, inaccurate, retracted and, finally, corrected reporting, all against a droning …
Phillip Thompson 