Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Tag Archives: writing
Branding: It Burns – Being an explanation of why for novelists the notion of branding is fraught with peril
Nicola Griffith on the perils of the world of modern publishing, from Twitter to Platforms and back, via the 7th Century. Or how to think like an executive about writing novels… Continue reading
Smoking Gun, or, Who is Katie Bell?
Gabriel Mason and his literary mentor, whom he calls Bubby, search for a reclusive heiress. Continue reading
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past: Steinbeck, Nostalgia, Empathy and Amtrak
What does Amtrak’s writer residency program signify about where we are artistically, culturally, and politically today? In 2014 we’re all about nostalgia, yet America’s infrastructure is slowly falling apart. Sean Murphy investigates. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged 1960s, acela, America, Amtrack, dirty martini, Sean Murphy, writers, writing, Zima
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Prowler
“We are all prisoners of our secret wars.” Continue reading
Posted in Welcome Kink
Tagged army, BDSM, hunting, marines, memoir, Sex, sex work, stripping, The Weeklings, vagina, writing
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Five Seasons Center
In the violent crush of the front rows of a 1985 heavy metal concert, author Art Edwards absorbs one of the most important lessons of his writing career. Continue reading
Posted in Monday Rock City
Tagged 1985, ac/dc, art edwards, concert, douchebag fratboys, fly on the wall tour, resilience, writing
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Inside INK, Outside Nanowrimo
Sixteen-year-old Emma Silverman recalls INK, the “hardly better than terrible” book she wrote during National Novel Writing Month. Continue reading
Walking on Sunshine
In the halcyon days of 80s-era MTV, Katrina and the Waves provide the soundtrack to blossoming and scorched earth finale to a teenage love affair, amid sci-fi, Satanism and Chuck E. Cheese. Continue reading
