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Maine Comics Arts Festival Poster
By Matt Talbot. Click for a link to the full-size image at the MECAF blog…
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Readings Tomorrow and Friday
Tomorrow the University of Maine’s New Writing Series wraps up with yours truly at 4:30 in the Soderbergh Auditorium in Jenness Hall. If you’re in or around the Bangor/Orono area (and before you head down to Poets Speak! at the BPL, which doesn’t start until 5:30), stop by. Friday comes a launch party for Buyout,…
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Technology the Enemy of Narrative Tension?
That’s the question raised in this NYT piece by Matt Richtel. I’ve thought about it some on my own, and I wonder if the narrative problems posed by info-saturation (problems which are only going to get worse) is going to make more people go for historical settings. I know for sure that I’ve wrestled with…
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NYT on Book Advances: A Mildly Bilious Response
Dear New York Times, I was interested to note that Michael Meyer’s essay “About That Book Advance…” managed to talk about the problems associated with publishers giving large advances, and quote a couple of authors whose large advances didn’t turn out to be as large as one would expect after taxes fees etc.–but somehow didn’t…
Crooked House Fictions 