Author: Alex Irvine
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Writing Stuff
The UMaine New Writing Series lineup for this fall will look like this: NEW WRITING SERIES • FALL 2008 18 SEPT DIANE WILLIAMS 02 OCT DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN 08 OCT TOM PICKARD • 8PM • Minsky Recital Hall 16 OCT TOM RAWORTH • Hill Auditorium 23 OCT LYDIA MILLET • Neville 100 20 NOV GERALDINE MONK…
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BangPop! Schedule
If you’re in the Bangor area–or anywhere in Maine–on Saturday, you should head up to BangPop! Here’s my schedule: 10:00 Special Guest Signing w/ Mark Ricketts & Christopher Mills1:00 Special Guest Signing w/ Joe Hill & Kristen Britain3:00 Writing for Genre panel w/ Hill, Britain, Mark Sehestedt, Walter H. Hunt, & Mark LaFlamme4:00 Writing for…
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Signs and Wonders
I know I just said this last post, but these are strange times indeed, when a NASCAR Trucks series driver is a) caught using testosterone, and b) has to apologize for it. My head spins trying to keep up with all of the ways in which the wrongness of this is wrong.
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Who’da Thunk It?
A Wall Street Journal op-ed piece by the editor of the National Enquirer? The strangest thing is that it’s funny and right on point while also being completely unfair and gratuitously acerbic…just like the best tabloid journalism. Strange days we live in.
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Maurice Sendak, Misanthrope
Or so it appears from this NYT profile. But he comes across as endearingly irascible, and he likes dogs, who as we all know are better than people. Anyway, misanthropy is forgivable when it’s coming from the guy who gave us In the Night Kitchen.
Crooked House Fictions 