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Perpetual Folly
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| Url: | http://perpetualfolly.blogspot.com |
| Author(s): | Clifford Garstang |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | literature, stories, fiction |
| Description: | A blog about writing and reading. |
| Ratings |  (16 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 136 Followers |
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From Winesburg, Ohio to Olive Kittteridge
| This is a talk I gave on December 1, 2009 at Blue Ridge Community College, and, as you'll see if you watch it, it should really be called "From Dubliners to In an Uncharted Country," but I thought ...more |
2009-12-04
HTML Giant Secret Santa
| Ho Ho Ho. Last year, the "internet literature magazine of the future" HTML Giant organized a literary Secret Santa gift exchange. It seemed like a good idea, fun, promoted indie lit, etc. So I play...more |
2009-12-04
Champagne Sundays
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Please tune into Big Blend Radio's Champagne Sundays this Sunday, December 6. I will be interviewed (around 4pm ET, I think) about my book, |
2009-12-03
The New Yorker: "The Use of Poetry" by Ian McEwan
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The contributor notes for this issue tell us that McEwan has a new novel, Solar, due out in the spring. And while once again the editors don’t tell us this, the fiction appears to be not a short st...more |
2009-12-02
Stone Soup Holiday Book Fair
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Come out to Stone Soup Books this Saturday, December 5, from 2 - 5 pm to meet lots of local authors (including me!), buy their books, get their autographs, etc. It's going to be fun, and the bookst...more |
2009-12-01
Read Literary Magazines
| That's good advice for everybody, but it's especially good advice for writers who want to publish work in those magazines--or anywhere else for that matter. It's even good advice for the writer wit...more |
2009-11-30
The New Yorker: "Midnight in Dostoevsky" by Don DeLillo
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This story is going directly onto my top-ten list for the year. I enjoyed this more than any DeLillo I’ve read, and I’m going to assume that it’s not excerpted from a novel. (Readers will remember ...more |
2009-11-30
I'm leaving!
| I mean, I'm going outside on a lovely fall afternoon to rake some leaves. In past years I have let the wind blow the leaves, mostly from the huge sycamore in my front yard, down the hill, into the ...more |
2009-11-29
"You lie!"
| No, this isn’t about Joe Wilson’s rude outburst during President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. It’s about one of my many pet peeves (imagine that, a house full of peeves running a...more |
2009-11-28
Status Update: Work in Progress
| I've been working on my novel (all the livelong day . . .) and it's coming along. I'd say that it's coming along nicely, except I'm pretty sure it's too soon to judge. Today I'm working on the penu...more |
2009-11-27
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