Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
We’ve been watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War and last night we finished the episode that includes the battle of Gettysburg. And when Burns begins to tell the story of Pickett’s Charge, the historian Shelby Foote, the shy-eyed, slow-talking baritone...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
NOVELIST COLUM McCann became the first Irish person to win one of America’s most prestigious literary awards on Wednesday night. McCann’sLet the Great World Spinwas announced as the winner of the National Book Award for fiction at a gala dinner in Manhattan.
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
We’ve been watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War and last night we finished the episode that includes the battle of Gettysburg. And when the story Pickett’s Charge, the historian Shelby Foote, the shy-eyed, slow-talking baritone who is the star of the narrational portions of Burns’ documentary, refers to a quote from William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust about how for young...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York City in the 1970s. The piece was described as an "indelibly hallucinatory portrait...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel "Let the Great World Spin," a story of New York in 1974 that doubles as an allegory of 9/11. It was the final award at the black-tie...
Isak (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
No surprise here: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor won the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction tonight, in a public vote that received more than 10,000 responses in the final stretch. Find my NBA review of the book here, and the nascence of the mild (and, it seems, totally unnecessary) campaign for its win here. O'Connor's book was chosen by readers over the other finalists: Invisible...
Bamboo Killers (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
So as many of you guys already know, Carson picked his top ten loglines . In case you haven't heard about this yet, Scriptshadow, the guy who reviews a screenplay a day and who's blog you should be reading if you are serious about the craft, put up a contest to select a good screenplay from among his readers. First, you submit your logline and he picks 10 he'd like to read. Then, you submit your first...
Magpie's Nest ~*~ Patty Szymkowicz (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
a view of the sunset here in Virginia this evening a little after 5pm so much beauty waiting to be noticed outside our front door some evenings really take my breath away I take lots of these sunset shots … each time seems brand new and I get so excited … just thought I would share a [...]
Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I'm in love again, people! Real, true love. With this writer: Ellen Gilchrist. She's a southern writer, born in Natchez, MS. Though I've heard her name, I'm only now reading her works. I am smitten. Nora Jane: A Life in...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A long and eventful day draws to a close and which included two contrasting male film personalities. Today we live is a 1933 released film of a William Faulkner story, set in England in the first World War, of love and heroic self sacrifice starring a young Joan Crawford, a mature Gary Cooper with Robert Young and Franchot Tone. Joan Crawford, as Diana, has grown up with her brother and his friend,...
I'll have one more, and then I'll go... (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
When insult had a class... : " These insults are from an era before the English language boiled down to 4-letter words. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really...
Design*Sponge (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
the first thing you’ll notice about annie coggan’s home is the chairs. there are chairs in every nook and cranny. if you look a little closer, you’ll notice that these aren’t your run-of-the-mill seat furniture. in addition to design classics like a womb chair and an eames rocker, there are chairs with embroidered detailing and [...]
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)....
Liquor Barn's Party Line Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Btms^ for November 10. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Cape Diamond Merlot 2 commemorate the Hope Diamond being donated to the Smithsonian 2day in 1958 by jeweler Harry Winston. Drink 4 2day: Cape Diamond Merlot is a remarkably great wine and great buy from Oregon wine maker and former Kentuckian Ken Wright. Complimentary Sip & Sample Wines this Week at the Barns, Tuesday [...]
5th and Spring (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Got a nice mention in the Hollywood Reporter, which named all the FIND Project:Involve fellows and their area of concentration, and Variety, which didn't.
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