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Finding a Story--The Cop on the Roof
Sometimes a story just falls in your lap. I was sitting at my desk in my one room hole above a Thai restaurant with my window open to the curry and airy traffic and my neighbors not ten feet away in t...
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writers, literary. literature, publishers, literary, short stories, hazelgrove, rocketman, biking and writing, authors, publishing, banned books
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Maybe this is as good as it gets
As a writer you are used to hard times. You do not question those hard times and think well easy times are on the way. You just accept the hard times as the way things are and deal accordingly. This a...
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great recession, novelists, hazelgrove, rocketman, authors, biking and writing, novels, economy, writers, depression, jobs, banned books
The Atlantic Review of Freedom
Well somebody had to do it. The review in the Atlantic burns Mr. Franzen to the ground and calls him a bad writer, basically a blogger, and skewers the book as trivial. The basic argument is that ther...
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writers, franzen, literary, hazelgrove, contemporary fiction, rocketman, hemingway, atlantic, authors, banned books
Is our Literary American Dream Dead?
Maybe the President should stop the town hall meetings. It looked pretty bad when the African American woman said she was about to start eating hot dogs and beans. The President smiled, looked really ...
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writers, gatsby, horatio alger, american dream, Obama, rocketman, biking and writing, publishing, literature, banned books
The 9/11 Essays in the Attic
Right after 9/11 I was gripped like everyone else and felt I had to do something. So I came up with the idea of getting responses on the tragedy from other authors. I contacted authors I knew and auth...
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essays in the attic, author essays, author project, hazelgrove, rocketman, fear, 9/11
Dirty Sexy Books
Meghan McCain is making all the stops with her celeb book Dirty Sexy Politics. You can almost see John McCain's daughter sitting in a room with the publisher trying to figure out a title for a book ab...
Writers Never Retire
Retirement. Where does that come from? Some sort of hangover from the World War II generation. Certainly the people who grew up in the last Great Depression never thought about retirement. Something c...
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hazelgrove, novelist, rocketman, authors, biking and writing, writer, aarp, writers, retirement, literary, publishing, banned books
Fiction and Politics
I was reading Frank Rich's editorial on Obama's speech on the end of the war in Iraq when he made an interesting connection. He basically said that Obama did not read Franzen's new novel because there...
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franzen, hazelgrove, rocketman, biking and writing, total war, writers, literary, iraq, literature, publishing, banned books, freedom
The Problem with the Kindle
So I have always taken the view that if anyone wants to read my novel on a screen that is fine. But then as I was reading from that dinosaur of pulp and ink...the book....it hit me. Reading fiction fr...
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writers, literary, digitize, hazelgrove, rocketman, kindle, books, ereaders, biking and writing, publishing, literature
Mark Twain and blogging
The first thing you realized when you read Mark Twain's biography is there is nothing new under the sun. He wrote satire and lampooned politicians and just about anybody else. And he was attacked for ...
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writers, literary, hazelgrove, rocketman, books, blogging, biking and writing, publishing, twain
The Insecurity of the Writer or that mysterious Writers...
Writers are an insecure group of people. Even writers who have been published numerous times. There is something about the act of writing that seems to care not about your last book, story, article. T...
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writers, novelists, literary, writers block, hazelgrove, rocketman, books, hemingway, biking and writing, readers, publishing
As Book Stores Close...
What is the writer to do as the book stores close? Not much. Keep on writing. One feels at times like you are writing through a war during this age of transition. Run out and buy a Kindle? They keep f...
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literary, hazelgrove, rocketman, kindle, books, scribes, publishing, ebooks
That Fifty Cent Second Novel
Ran into an old friend from high school the other day while I was typing away in a coffee house. We hooked up and went to a bar and passed the time and that's when he told me had picked up my second n...
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writers, novelists, hazelgrove, scribblers, rocketman, books, biking and writing, authors, publishing, literature, novels
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels...Mark Twai...
Hid it under the bed. That's where I left my box of patriotic goodies. Let's see there is that medal from the last good war WWII and an old Jap rifle and a Kraut Luger and a couple of grenades and the...
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beck, hazelgrove, far right, rocketman, conservative, mlk, rally
The Writer in Hard Times
These are hard times. On this we can agree. The writer in hard times is actually better equipped for the deprivation that comes when the coins stop clinking. Apologies to all writers who laugh to the ...
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writers, hard times, liteary, hazelgrove, rocketman, novelist, books, artist, publishing, literature
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