Odds & Ends

Oct. 21, 2009

Scrapbook

Today, the intricate, multi-season narrative TV drama has the same dominant cultural sway over well-educated, well-off adults that the latest Salinger short story had in the 1950s.

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Oct. 9, 2009

Updated Books Section

I haven’t posted much this week but I have been hard at work on the blog. If you click the Books button above, you will see a redesigned section devoted to my novels. The sub-sections for Mission Flats and The Strangler in particular are all new. I will keep updating these Books pages for visitors [...]

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Sep. 2, 2009

A few links

Random bits found floating around on the web today: Nabokov and Trilling on YouTube; D.G. Myers five best novels of the decade; Joseph Epstein’s advice to writers to “make it look easy”; and Red Sox outfielder Joey Gathright jumping over cars. That’s right, jumping over cars.

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Sep. 1, 2009

Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted”

“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said, ‘A faster horse.’” — Henry Ford (via) Follow your own vision. Do not write what you think readers want. They do not know what they want until you show it to them.

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Aug. 31, 2009

Julia Child: “The way to a full and healthy life”

“I do think the way to a full and healthy life is to adopt the sensible system of ‘small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything.’ Above all — have a good time.” — Julia Child

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Aug. 18, 2009

“No battle plan…”

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (via)

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