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An Interview With Beau Johnson, Author of Like Minded Individuals - Beau Johnson is an annual guest here, and the blog is better because of it. Beau is always entertaining and gives thoughtful answers, no matter what kin...1 hour ago
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FFB: EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP, David Markson - (reviewed by Bill Crider in 2010) Forgotten Books: EPITAPH FOR A TRAMP -- David Markson *I first read this book a few decades ago, and I have copies of b...
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Tales of Ochwinnay - I never did meet Badger the Mystical Mutt in the flesh. Or do I mean fur? But I met his lovely creators, Lyn McNicol and Laura Cameron Jackson, when they c...12 hours ago
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On Religion and Racism (Concise) - It’s fascinating how some white parents will complain that some books that tell the truth about racism will “make their kids feel bad,” which is a reason t...16 hours ago
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Mr Brooks - 2007 film review - *Mr Brooks* is a film that I'd never come across until recently, although it had a great cast and was very commercially successful. When I finally caugh...1 day ago
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Using the Figurative to Deepen the Prose - I love Jill Christman’s essay, “The Sloth,” so much, I’m going to quote it here, as published in Brevity, in its entirety: There is a nothingness of te...3 days ago
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40 Free Writing Contests: Competitions With Cash Prizes - Don’t be taken in by scammy writing contests. Here are some fee-free options for your fiction, nonfiction and poetry.3 days ago
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"Masterfully draws us into a twisting, sordid tale" - review of NOTES ON A DROWING - *NOTES ON A DROWNING by Anna Sharpe (Orion, 2025)* *Reviewed by Craig Sisterson* *Alex knows she risks getting fired from her law firm if she takes on a...
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The JFK Conspiracy Few Know About is a Riveting Thriller You Won't Believe is True - By Scott D. Parker As a trained historian, I pride myself on having in-depth knowledge on certain topics of history and a general sense of a wide range ...
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Book Review: Passport by Richard Jones - *Passport* by Richard Jones Green Linden Press, 2025 Reviewed by Matthew Murrey *In Passport*, his 20th book of poems, Richard Jones has done something ...6 days ago
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The Havana Regime Swallows Hard Before the New Winds Blowing in Washington - 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana, 23 January 2025 — Cuba had been removed from the United States’ list of countries sponsoring terrorism for j...1 week ago
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"So This is Dyoublong?" Living Inside the World of the Wake, Part 2 - I was on an extended stay in Dublin a few years ago and found myself in a shared space somewhere out in Leopardstown on the outskirts of the city. The L...
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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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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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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...2 years 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...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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Snatches of the Everlasting Gospel 3 - [image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNcpxZh71l2jCbTs7-nYBJmgvJTJrPf4wq2oyZ_7AbYvqESjZ94wqaJOKAPexY3gBRlHz2aFVqubZU16pxnLZA5...
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THE LAMMISTERS: a bourbon-smooth riot, apparently - It’s been a busy end to 2019 for yours truly, folks, and we wind down tired but happy, with THE LAMMISTERS published – something I thought would never hap...
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why i write - *I like the people who came to writing novels from working in newspapers. For them writing is a job. You get up at nine in the morning and you finish at 5....5 years ago
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Upcoming Events - Lit Crawl Belfast: As part of the Belfast Book Festival, come to No Alibis see me and Rosemary Jenkinson read from works by our favourite crime authors,...
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Shot at the Edgars - Peter Lovesey, named an MWA Grand Master at the 2018 Edgar Awards. Photo by Peter Rozovsky for Detectives Beyond Borders. © Peter Rozovsky 2018
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Six Days in Phoenix - On day one, Thursday, we marched to the Capitol, 75,000 strong. The legislature basically flipped us off, and adjourned until Monday. On day two we h...
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SCHEHERAZADE - [image: Image result for scheherazade] On Friday night the Prom was Scheherazade, live from the Albert Hall. I have listened to it three times since th...7 years ago
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What I Learned at the California Crime Writers Conference - It’s Monday morning in Culver City on a gorgeous Southern California day. From my hotel room window, I can see reflected in the mirrored building across ...
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New Year’s Discount - Happy New Year to all my readers! This year begins with two discounts for you: North Sea Cottage (the first mystery about Tora) is available for $ 0.99 onl...8 years ago
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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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"Voyage, Voyage" by Caroline Couderc at Germ Magazine - In accordance with my decision to post links to some short fiction here, here is a link to a story just up at Germ Magazine. Although they bill it as lite...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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Surprise invasion of Japanese punk - A strange bit of synchronicity occurred in my life this week, courtesy of Netflix. I have a two disk at a time plan with them. (Yes, that's right, I stil...
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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...9 years ago
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Meeting Points - Meeting points, in water, sky or paint; the places where blue turns red & runs into the sea; edge of a face that bends into shadow; shape that changes sh...
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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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Review of Reckless Lovely in the Los Angeles Review - A hearty shout-out to Maggie Trapp for her generous review of *Reckless Lovely*, which just went live at The Los Angeles Review blog.
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Beastly Murder: A Gossipy Post + Highsmith - The moral of the story, I guess, is that I should get out more often. Last summer, I attended a Portland edition of *Noir at the Bar*, hosted by local cri...
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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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New Website! New Blog! 2 New Programs! - Striving always toward full integration of the logical - linear and analytical with the intuitive - creative and imaginative, I've united those parts in a ...10 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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ReplyDelete"You've lifted me up, each and every step of the way." Just after 5:00
(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.)