I’m still recovering mentally from my relatively minor 2007 book tour. All that travel, talk prep, a few radio shows, prepublicity, postpublicity, endless emails for weeks (months?) before the tour and follow-up after. Whether you get a crowd or nobody shows, it’s still a heckuva lotta work. I got my first batch of gray hairs. […]
Sarah Palin gets her book deal Read More »
As Alaskan author Marybeth Holleman reminded us in her recent post on Art & Activism, writing is action. On the heels of that reminder comes a call to action as Alaska governor Sarah Palin joined two other Republican governors eying the 2012 presidential nomination by announcing she would accept only 69 percent of the federal
For those of us who thought we might get a break from Sarah on this and other blogs … and for those of us who thought it was too late to make book money off the Sarah phenomenon: Galleycat reports the rumor (emphasis on rumor) that Sarah Palin is being offered $7 million to write
This Sarah book has a much bigger advance… Read More »
“Sarah and Aristotle” by Dan Henry Aside from being shocked at her buffed-up conservative cred, I am wallowing in the rhetorical compost Sarah Palin produced in the vice-presidential debate. The debate coach in me is turning somersaults. I imagine the practice sessions, the feedback, the script, the coaching strategy. Concerning the speaker, Aristotle says, the
Frontier Rhetorician Dan Henry of Haines grades the debate Read More »
Amanda Coyne is an Alaska freelancer, a blogger at Huffington Post, and an APU writing teacher. She has been published in Harper’s, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Anchorage Press, where she was an editor until 2005. She also happens to be a friend. So when word got out that the Palin biography by
Palin “first biographer” Amanda Coyne on why she didn’t write the book Read More »
Busy, busy. So much to do. But how about stopping by Snow City Cafe on West 4th Avenue tomorrow (Friday) evening for the AQR First Friday series? There will be an art opening at 5:30 followed at 7:00 by live music and readings from Alaska Quarterly Review’s 25th anniversary issues. Staying home instead? If you’re
and a few more event notices… Read More »
I’m always struggling to decide how to treat the Sarah subject on this blog. Anyone reading this can guess my leanings but I try to steer clear of outright political rants (as tempting as a rant would be) in favor of approaching candidates from a literary perspective. Thank you, Slate, for providing an acceptable angle
My husband Brian reminded me today, a day when we found it impossible to focus on anything else, that Alaska science fiction writer David Marusek (whom I have mentioned in a recent post, shown at left) wrote a short story about an Alaskan vice president, called “Cabbages and Kale or: How we downsized North America”
Why we read science fiction: David Marusek predicted an Alaska VP Read More »
It’s a slim book and more general than critical, but Kaylene Johnson’s biography of Sarah, published this spring by Epicenter, will no doubt get a major boost from the news as well. Here is the direct link to Epicenter’s page on the book. We know that Ms. Johnson wrote the book in record time, at
Kaylene Johnson’s phone must be ringing, too… Read More »
Woken up this morning by an eastcoast time zone call to tell us that Sarah was picked as McCain’s VP. It’s like hearing that your own cousin was chosen. Emails humming with subject lines that say “OMG.” But this is a litblog, not a general blog, so let me point you toward some Alaska writers
Sarah? OUR SARAH? We’re scrambling here… Read More »
