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Forgotten Book - The Etruscan Net aka The Family Tomb - Throughout the 1960s, Michael Gilbert published only four novels - although this very industrious writer was, as ever, far from idle during that time, c...
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Refuse to Play the Game - Today the church remembers the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die by martyrdom (but certainly not the last): St. Alphege, Bishop, Martyr, and Resistor. ...3 hours ago
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The Boy, The Witch & The Queen of Scots - How could I resist? A witch, and Stirling. Barbara Henderson’s new book was clearly meant for me. And it is as with her other historical novels; I learned ...8 hours ago
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Part Two of My Conversation With James D.F. Hannah - Welcome back for the conclusion of my conversation with Shamus Award-winning author James D.F. Hannah. Latecomers can catch up with what happened last w...10 hours ago
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FFB: Hollywood and LeVine, Andrew Bergman - Reviewed by Randy Johnson in 2014 [image: 18697864]I’ve written about P.I. Jack LeVine before. It’s 1947 and Jack LeVine runs into an old college fri...10 hours ago
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Music for Music: Greg Ward - *Greg Ward: Noble Quest* By Dan Ursini ©2024 *Dion’s Quest* by Greg Ward’s Rogue Parade contains nearly an hour of brilliantly layered music by a quint...1 day ago
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Patricia Highsmith's Chillers - You could say that the current Netflix series *Ripley* goes retro since it uses black and white. Of course that use reflects the era *Ripley* is set in, ...
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And Then It Happened: A Story Prompt - You know how it goes. You’re going through an ordinary day—maybe it’s a Sunday, and you’re just taking it easy—and then just like that something happens ...4 days ago
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Spring Cleaning - I can feel that spring cleaning urge bubbling up inside me, and when it reaches full boil, I will clean, or, if the weather cooperates, get back out in t...
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Connotative Words – 99 Examples & Definitions - As a writer, understanding the subtle art of word choice transforms your work from ordinary to extraordinary. This ability helps separate the amateur write...4 weeks ago
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Romanticizing the Electricity Cuts in Cuba, More Than Cynical It Is Offensive - 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana — A ‘snort’ runs through the neighborhood. They have just cut off the electricity service and life is paralyz...5 weeks ago
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Review: EVERYBODY KNOWS - *EVERYBODY KNOWS by Jordan Harper (Faber, 2023)* *Reviewed by Craig Sisterson* *In Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers... **Welcome to Mae Pr...
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Announcement: Venice Wake Reunion Event in Los Angeles, CA on Joyce's Birthday (2/2/24) - *28-Year Book Club Conquers Literary Everest* *Gains National Attention* Press Event: Reunion Party is Set for *Friday, February 2, 2024*, Venice, CA, on...2 months ago
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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...1 year ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!1 year 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 ...2 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...6 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...6 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...7 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.7 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...8 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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