It’s “Week Two.” For veterans of National Novel Writing Month, Week Two has the same kind of cheerful reputation as Darth Vader. It’s so evil it gets its name capitalized. Week Two […]
NaNoWriMo Week Two: "I've been Week Two'd"
Pekar Tribute 4: Mike Sheehan
Pekar Tribute 3: Aaron Williams
Writing the mad dash—National Novel Writing Month
A WordsDay Special Fifty-thousand words in thirty days. It’s a journey that would make Jules Verne jealous. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and I’m going to take the plunge. With […]
Pekar Tribute 2: Derf
Pekar Tribute 1: Karl Christian
Cory Doctorow interviews William Gibson
Cadogan Hall was an inspired venue for this evening’s Intelligence2 dialog between Cory Doctorow and William Gibson, given the themes of Gibson’s last three novels (including the most recent, Zero History, which […]
Quoth the writer: "Nevermore"
Edgar Allan Poe’s grave marker sits immediately inside the front gate of the Westminster Hall cemetery in downtown Baltimore. It’s not quite the location you’d expect for a cemetery—at the corner of […]
Seven great jobs that actually suck
At my daughter’s graduation, the president of Claremont said, “Some of you will go on to rewarding and productive careers in government and academia. And some of you will go into business.” […]
Nota Bene #116: Long Live Elena Pavlichenko
“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” Who said it?
