The site for all you’d want to know about The Pulitzer Prizes
- Resources
- Archive of winners (including Full texts, photographs and cartoons [...] for Journalism winners from 1995 – 2006)
- History
- Luncheon Remarks
May 29, 2007
[URL] The Pulitzer Prizes
[URL] Classic Shorts
Classic Shorts brings you the texts of classic short stories.
The majority of the stories are old (classic) enough to be out of copyright. How did they get a Tobias Wolff short though? Or GGM?
Sample shorts:
- One of These Days by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
- Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff
[via StumbleUpon]
May 24, 2007
[BLOG] author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf
I told author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf a while back that at some point I’d get around to telling folks how much I like her “actually writing blog.”
LeBoeuf is an inspiration in her willingness to say “I’m screwing around and need to get back to work” and her “read this blog and got these hints” and her “I’m working on XYZ and it is not going well” and, of course, her other writerly-related posts. This blog consists only of writerly-related posts and I like that focus.
Sometimes she posts too little because she’s actually writing or off at Viable Paradise or busy doing something else, and then she’s back on a semi-regular basis and … life is good.
I like her snippets.
I like her focus.
I even like her whining.
May 18, 2007
Writing markets stuff moving in with the writer colony over >>> there
I’ve decided to keep writing markets “stuff” at the writers’ resources site from this day forth. The posts were taking up too much real estate.
The resources blog will carry the markets information I’ve been carrying here. Coolio writer stuff may wind up in both this blog and that. Info on the writers’ resources site will be updated to include new markets information and links wigati. The resources blog will probably be updated from its 2002 look some day as well.
From now on writing markets info will live there not here. Those of you who read here for great apps, interesting sites, San Francisco foodie news and life, the universe and prayer flags can continue on uninterrupted. Those who only cared about the markets info will find their focus more focussed at the other blog.
This has been a management postie. We now return you to the normal blog content, sans writing markets information.
May 1, 2007
anna louise’s Journal
Update your Bloglines or whatever it is you use to track RSS feeds or whatever. Anna Louise Genovese (although still a consulting editor at Tor) has started a freelance editorial service called Aleuromancy and has transferred her blog from anna louise’s Journal to Aleuromancy.net.
Go thee thither.
April 28, 2007
Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood
This week the Globe and Mail published the obit for Margaret Dorothy Killam Atwood, who died last December, aged 97.
What a wonderful homage to Margaret Atwood’s mother, written by the daughter.
The obit begins,
Someone said to me recently, ‘You must have had an unusual mother.’ True enough.
[from SG’s cosa nostra blog]
Update: with any luck the new link won’t ask you to pay for the obit text. …
March 21, 2007
[URL] Tax Tips and Resources for Writers
DRO has posted her updated “Tax Tips and Resources For Freelance Writers” over at InkyGirl.
Here’s my annual updated list of useful tax resources for freelance writers. Sadly (for me, anyway, since I live in Canada), most of the info is specific to the U.S., but I did manage to find some info specific to Canada and other countries, listed below in the “international tax info” section partway down this list.
I was unable to find ANY tax-related resources of use to writers outside of North America. Suggestions welcome! [...]
March 9, 2007
[BLOG] Today in Letters
Today in Letters: Letters and Diary Entries from this Day in Literary History.
Today (08 Mar) brings us
Lord Byron: March 8, 1816
A letter to Thomas Moore.
I rejoice in your promotion as Chairman and Charitable Steward, etc., etc. These be dignities which await only the virtuous. But then, recollect you are six and thirty, (I speak this enviously—not of your age, but the “honour—love—obedience—troops of friends,” which accompany it,) and I have eight years good to run before I arrive at such hoary perfection; by which time,—if I am at all,—it will probably be in a state of grace or progressing merits.
[...]
March 6, 2007
[URL] Craigslist Curmudgeon is the Yahoo! Daily Wire site of the day.
The Curmudgeon cranks on about Craigslist ads that offer next to nothing (or worse!) as payment for wordsmithing.
Yahoo! sez: The Curmudgeon’s chief complaint: would-be content providers that offer wordsmiths no pay. More specific no-nos: ads offering piddling in-kind compensation, ads with dubious payment schemes, ads offering nothing but “exposure,” and ads offering no pay for ridiculous assignments.
And the ad-meisters fire back.
Entertaining all around.
[nod to Yahoo! picks]
February 26, 2007
5.4 up near Petrolia
Recent Earthquakes – Info for event nc40193932:
A moderate earthquake occurred at 4:19:54 AM (PST) on Monday, February 26, 2007.
The magnitude 5.4 event occurred 52 km (32 miles) W of Ferndale, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 0.4 km (0.2 miles)
Right at the seaward edge of the Cascadia subduction zone.
We’ll be having dinner with Susan Hough on Thursday after her author talk at Kepler’s down in Menlo Park for her newest book: Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
(In the area? Stop on by! Thursday March 01, 2007 — 7:30 p.m. at Kepler’s in Menlo Park)
(Buy now!)
I’m sure the our dinner conversation talk will turn to local earthquakes and Cascadia and Hayward and San Andreas. It always does.