Author: Alex Irvine
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On the Radio
Just finished taping this week’s “Back to Business,” with Deb Neuman on WVOM 103.9, the Voice of Maine. The topic: the business of writing, about which I’m not sure how much I know, but that didn’t seem to deter Deb. Also participating in the discussion were Hank Garfield and Janet Chapman, as well as a…
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Comes news that Universal has hired the director of Wanted and the screenwriters who gave us the Olsen twin masterpiece New York Minute—to write and direct Moby-Dick. At first this didn’t seem too apocalyptic for people who might care about the book, but then the Variety article cheerfully imparts the following information. The writers revere…
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There Once Was a Man from Wiscasset…
I call your attention to the Maine Limerick Project, ably overseen by Hank Garfield. Filth and humor equally encouraged. And your List of the Day is from the Telegraph: The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature.
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Sunday Morning Coming Down
After a 1-0 thriller at Yankee Stadium yesterday, and then a tour of Astoria last night, it’s a calm and lovely day ahead, with only the specter of the demise of book publishing to instill a sense of dread. But even if book publishing is on its last legs, at least there’s still George Saunders…
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I Mean, Really
How many games have the Tigers’ relievers blown this year? Especially after the 8th? I repeat: this has got to be one of the most disappointing teams, based on preseason expectations, in the history of modern sport. It must be because I went to a spring training game this year.
Crooked House Fictions 