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2008
ALASKAN AUTHORS WEEKLY ROUND-UP
Confession: I am pretty much completely out of the loop this week. But I do want to make sure you take a moment for the survey at 49 Writers. Your input is vital as Andromeda and I wile away the last few days of 2008 forging a new and improved blog for you in 2009.
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100th Post: What Have We Done For You Lately?
I’m amazed, and relieved, that this is the 100th post. One night in August when I was thinking about starting 49 writers, I fell asleep — and woke up at 5 am in a cold sweat, absolutely sure I shouldn’t start a blog after all. How would I fill it? Where would I find the
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FOLLOW YOUR GUT
Does karaoke count as creative work? As in, I have no talent so I have to compensate by flailing limbs and gyrating? Ah well. I’ll be back at real work next week. Recently an author did an experiment. He asked writer to critique stories which, unbeknownst to them, had already been published. They told him
LONE WOLVES
A couple of postcards make up my body of work for the past couple of days, but I did cart Writer magazine to my poolside perch, where I read NBA finalist Anne Spollen’s article “A lone wolf meets the pack.” In writing about how she eschews writers’ groups, I suspect Spollen channeled the thoughts of
Poetry, Prose, Pataky: Li-Young Lee and the Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference
Did you know that the Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference sold out last year? I didn’t. Now might be a good time to reserve a space; and now is the perfect time to learn more about the keynote speaker, Li-Young Lee, pictured at left. Thanks to Jeremy Pataky for this thoughtful summary of the Alaska writing
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BEACH READS
A little time at the beach, and I’m wondering if there are Alaskan equivalents of the beach read. Or does Alaska not lend itself to that type of reading?
PIPI HOLO KA’AO
That’s Hawaiian for “A well told tale travels far and wide.” Have a few to tell already but mostly I’m stockpiling Vitamin D for the rest of the winter. I do miss Alaska, but there’s something about the beach…
When do you give up on your newspaper?
I moved to Alaska because of the Anchorage Daily News. Not because I had a job offer from the Daily News — that would be normal — but because I had subscribed to the newspaper from Chicago, where Brian and I stopped for almost a year in 1994, to be among family while having our
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Guestblogger Nancy Lord on “Ice Palace”
Rereading Ice Palace: Old Myths and New Context by Nancy Lord When I first arrived in Alaska in the early 1970s, I eagerly read everything I could about my new home. That meant that I read Jack London, Rex Beach, homesteader accounts, and Edna Ferber’s novel Ice Palace, published in 1958 and credited with helping
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