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Grab a Thanksgiving-Themed Cozy Mystery This Week - by Scott D. Parker If it seem like I just reviewed a Leslie Meier book last month, then you are absolutely correct. But the number of Thanksgiving-theme...
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Forgotten Book - The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye - Over the past few years, Dean Street Press have reprinted the work of a wide range of relatively obscure detective novelists. I wrote introductions for ...2 days ago
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Dead Shot: The Memoir of Walter Ferguson, Soldier, Marshal, Bootlegger is Available Today - Today is the climax of the relentless crescendo of hyperbole surrounding the release of my first Western, *Dead Shot: The Memoir of Walte Ferguson, So...
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FFB: RIDERS ON THE STORM, Ed Gorman - Ed Gorman, *Riders on the Storm** (reviewed by Ron Scheer)* Ed Gorman’s new Sam McCain mystery is set in 1971 and reflects some of the civil turbulence...
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‘Once you start killing people’ - Lisa Jewell received us in her bedroom, albeit on Zoom, which in the case of her chair Vaseem Khan was probably just as well. Feisty lady is all I can say....3 days ago
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Via Basel: A Manifesto - *Wintering* by Marguerite Gignoux *A Manifesto for the coming months and years* I will stop discussing, convincing, rationalizing, arguing, ...5 days ago
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The Last Time - Cathy and I took advantage of the good weather today to do our outdoor winterization chores. We carried patio chairs to the basement, brought in the umbr...6 days ago
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More Than a Wall, 35 Years Ago the Masks Fell in Berlin - 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation y, 9 November 2024 — Every November the assessments and reminders arrive, and the images of Berliners pounding on the w...2 weeks ago
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Pitching Long-Form Journalism? Here’s our Best Tip for Getting the Gig - If you’re not doing this in your long-form journalism pitch, you’ll lose editors fast.4 weeks ago
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"Storytelling mastery and a fitting finale" - review of CITY IN RUINS - *CITY IN RUINS by Don Winslow (HarperCollins, 2024)* *Reviewed by Craig Sisterson* *Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. ...
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The Right Thing to Do - Today the church honors a 17th Century pioneer in equality and human dignity, St. Peter Claver, Jesuit, Servant and Reformer. St. Claver was born in Spain,...2 months ago
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Last Swim - Because of the timing of my travels this summer, today was my last Early Bird lap swim, peaceful, meditative, and smooth, with country music and Carole K...
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The Influence of Whitman on Joyce & Finnegans Wake - Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymn...
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Six of My Favorite Experiences of 2023 - Natural Bridge, Virginia *Great, bright portal,* *shelf of rock,* *rocks fitted in long ledges*[...] *The world heaved—we are next to the sky* - H.D. ...
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Strange and Blessed Fire 5: Mothernaked - *While Pico and Patrizzi might differ on Aristotle, their philosophies incurred the common fate of condemnation by the Church. Yet neither was intention...
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Alive and Branching Out - I'm still alive, thankfully, and slowly returning to full volume. Since I started this blog, the personal artsy blog as a concept seems to be fading away. ...
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The Last Hurrah - ‘Relax will you. It’s just an abandoned warehouse.’ ‘Well, it’s giving me the creeps.’ ‘We’ll just glance it over and skedaddle. Tomorrow you’ll be a fre...1 year ago
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Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall - Justice Thurgood Marshall’s widow, Cecilia Marshall, died this Tuesday. After her husband’s death in 1991, she continued to occasionally appear at the Co...1 year ago
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Declaration of Divorce - In despair, July 4, 2022 The reluctant declaration of the twenty five or so blue states of America: This isn't working out. And sometimes, you know, in t...2 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!2 years ago
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Book Review 2022-001 - Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan - Book Review 2022-001 Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan 309 pages (the galley), 2022 via Henry Holt (this copy was an ARC sent to me by Henry Holt) This deb...2 years ago
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Eight Basics of Successful Nonprofit Leadership - Leading a nonprofit is, in many ways, like leading any kind of business. Some of these I learned growing up watching my father run his small business. For ...3 years ago
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#104 / The Shared American Story - Ken Burns (pictured above) is an American filmmaker who is known for using archival footage and photographs in documentary films about American history....3 years ago
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Off with their heads! Why are Lewis Carroll misquotes so common online? - Following a recent similar Royal Mint slip-up, the Westminster Collection’s new 50p coins have sent Carroll experts down an internet rabbit hole to sourc...3 years ago
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On Writing and Jazz - Set during the Jazz Age, THE LAMMISTERS is a novel that plunders the literary canon in the manner of a starved child let loose in a sweetshop. Of all its ...
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Linwood Barclay, Ross Macdonald, and me: What I shot and thought at Harrogate, Part II - *Linwood Barclay signs a book foran adoring fan. Photo by PeterRozovsky by special agreementwith Detectives Beyond Borders.* I’ve never been able to g...
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Irish Times review of DISORDER - This review, written by Declan Burke, appeared in The Irish Times on Saturday 21st April 2018. Potential for violence Set in Belfast, Gerard Brennan’s ...
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Korean Friendship Bell, Angels Gate Park, Point Fermin, San Pedro - Korean Friendship Bell, Angels Gate Park, San Pedro
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It's been so long, I practically forgot what I used to tell you all ... - It's three days before the new year. I enjoy looking back and looking forward. When I found out about Janus, I was quite pleased there was a God who did th...
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A Love Letter to Writers - 1) She asks if her ideas, her story is silly. I can't answer that for her. Only she can. I see her as a miracle, a jewel, a divine creation. How can anythi...7 years ago
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On Finishing FINNEGANS WAKE - I’ve only ever belonged to one reading group, and for eight and a half years we’ve been reading the same book, *Finnegans Wake*. Yes, you read that right...
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APHASIA - *Aphasia is the result of damage to the parts of the brain involved in speaking, reading, writing and understanding others.* Any damage to the language area...7 years ago
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The Mad Girls – free promotion! - For three days, you have the opportunity to get acquainted with an interesting new writer, published by Candied Crime, our family publishing company. Rannv...7 years ago
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From the US to Korea, by way of Denmark - *"I love music in every genre. Seriously, I love Ace Of Base just as much as Bob Dylan. To me it's all the same. The only thing I don't like is music witho...
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Wanda's Christmas Story - Last year, sometime around Thanksgiving, I was walking along and remembering the sad history of a story I wrote. It was a little long for the usual literar...
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A Barrel of Salt: Salzburg, Austria - Last summer I started this post talking about a saying my father handed down to me. “You can’t know a man until you’ve eaten a barrel of salt with him.” T...8 years ago
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Guiding a First Generation to College - Students who are new to America or lack college-educated parents often don’t know their options.8 years ago
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Flanless in the kitchen, six p.m. - My walking buddy complains her flannel pajamas are no longer warm, cheery, or comforting on these very long nights of early winter.. The thrill is gone, a...
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Grazie & Arrivederci! - So that's the end of the Europa Challenge! Thanks to everyone for a great five years of reading and reviewing! I'll leave the blog up so folks can find you...8 years ago
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Newer Posts Available At Paint & Words 16 : https://tompaints16.blogspot.com/ -- Paint & Words 17: https://tom2017.blogspot.com/ - "Blind Bathers" I began this painting with a fairly restrictive drawing but, bit by bit, I tried to find the color that could open up the forms. The first...
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Dahlia Lithwick on the mentally ill in jail - I'm reviving this somewhat moribund blog to post a link to an article by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick on a mentally ill man who died after four months in jail a...9 years ago
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I’m Not Here Anymore, But Maybe You’ll Follow Me to Somewhere New? - Thank you, everyone, for following me on 500 Words on Words! As you might have noticed, I haven’t been exactly cranking out the new posts here for quite so...9 years ago
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Sayulita - It's not October anymore. Something a bit more timely for the top o' the blog, okay? My most amazing friend, Raquel, swept me out of my daily routine ...
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It Lives! - It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog. Some things have changed over the last year, I changed jobs last October, after thirteen years ...
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT - UNDER CONSTRUCTION ~ OVER DELIGHT * AT THE BIJOU * ? Yes, that's right. From our newly refurbished red velvet reader seats . . . to showcasing AUTH...
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The Final Post: Understanding and Forgiveness for All - I began this blog a year ago with the aim of resolving the cognitive dissonance between my love of Wagner’s music with his reputation as a monster. I start...
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William Kentridge at Volte gallery - The South African artist William Kentridge is showing at Volte gallery in Colaba. Anybody in Bombay between now and March 20 should definitely put the ex...
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Worlds Collide Under Purple Skies - It's amazing to me how often my Japanese world collides with my American world. Two years ago, I happened to be on vacation in *New Orleans*. I was sitti...
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Assistant Editor On Board! - TFFO writer Tom Pitts is the new TFFO editorial assistant at Out of the Gutter Online! Click here to welcome him to the operation!
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Gay Male Poetry Post Identity Politics, Part Five - I am now posting the last of the presentations from my AWP panel on gay male poetry post politics. Like Aaron Smith, Brian Teare questions the idea and the...16 years ago
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(I will say that if you check the Engish captions on this thing, they are quite bizarre. Can't tell if they're done by a detractor or just someone incompetent in the English language.)