... and mine. Every so often I get someone, maybe a student, maybe a friend of a friend, maybe just someone who found me on the internet, write to me asking: Please, please, can you read my manuscript? [caption id="" align="alignright" width="144" caption="Your friendly neighbourhood writer-in-residence, Maurice Mierau."][/caption]The answer is,…
Read MoreIf you can't get enough of creative writing and just want to keep taking classes in it after the term ends, consider the CMU School of Writing in May. Second-year students will remember Anita Daher's enthusiastic talk on writing for children last year: she's one of the writers at CMU…
Read MoreOkay, just one more thing before bed. I have to post this from More Intelligent Life (see last post, below). It's an article about The Simpsons being the new Disney. I can justify posting it 'cause there's a big bit in the middle about the writers. I'm quite attached to…
Read MoreI just remembered this pre-xmas article from ROB (thanks to trolling on Bookninja). The gist of it (as in the New York Times Magazine link Kenton posted the other day) is that magazines are going online. Which we knew. But like anything else online, how are they going to make…
Read MoreMy first post, and the closure of two recently opened McNally-Robinson locations is crying out for comment. I'm saddened by the closures. I love bookstores, but it's starting to feel like a nostalgic kind of love, like my love of developing my own photos (you’ve heard of film?), letterpress printing,…
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