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‘Feeling’ Real

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Last night, I was reading Rob Brunner’s review of The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson in Entertainment Weekly while watching the big football game (yay, Giants!) and came across this line: Johnson has created such a convincing universe [North Korea] that it doesn’t really matter if he’s accurately captured every detail. It FEELS real, [...]

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Writing Tip #59

Posted in Writing Tips, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »

All it takes is one person to believe… I took my kids to see The Muppets yesterday, a film which actor Jason Segal is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for getting made. If I’m to believe what I read in Entertainment Weekly (and why shouldn’t I?), Disney executives asked to meet with Segal in order to [...]

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Writing Tip #38

Posted in Writing Tips, tagged , , , , , , , on July 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Don’t fret over your first line. In Entertainment Weekly, write-ups of new books often include a blurb/sidebar called “First Line,” in which the first line of the novel, memoir or nonfiction book is quoted. And just yesterday, I read about this cool “paperback game” in the New York Times  in which players have fun with [...]

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Henning Mankell

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on April 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »

So here I am reading an article in Entertainment Weekly about author Henning Mankell, a man who has had the sort of life we don’t tell our children they can lead if they drop out of high school — a wildly successful and satisfying one. Yes, at age 16, in Latin class, Mankell decided, “Hey, [...]

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Portia de Rossi, James Franco Release Books

Posted in Celebs, tagged , , , , , , , on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Portia de Rossi has released a memoir titled, Unbearable Lightness. I saw the headline in Entertainment Weekly and thought, “Great. Another celebrity memoir.” For many aspiring writers, who live beyond the TMZ, trying to publish a book — memoir, novel, how-to book — is a rigorous, difficult, looong process, and, not to begrudge anyone, but [...]

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Should We Blame James Patterson?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I was reading the latest Entertainment Weekly’s Books section yesterday — the time of the week when I spend 15 minutes with a knot in my stomach wondering (hoping) if Baby Grand will ever be profiled there — and it turns out that this issue’s column was a thriller roundup. Right up my alley.  The [...]

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#in10years

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a hashtag floating around Twitter — #in10years — that’s got me thinking about what’s going to happen, what life’s going to be like, a decade from now. My first thought was that my youngest son would be graduating from high school. Scary… Actually, that’s not true. My first thought was about me, narcissistic writer [...]

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