Thanks to the two dozen people who braved Saturday’s scary roads to attend the excellent Reading & Craft Talk by David Abrams on “How to Write a War Story.” David was happy to be back in Anchorage after an absence of nine years, and he thoroughly enjoyed his whirlwind tour of Homer, Fairbanks, and Anchorage, […]
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Not too long ago, I was talking to a group of bookstore employees and presenting our newest title, “Weathered Edge,” when one of the young women in the group asked if what I do (publishing and selling books) is difficult. She then stated that if I loved what I did, that it must not be
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A delighted reader from the Loewen household “I leaf through now one book, now another, without order, and without plan, by disconnected fragments,” wrote Michel de Montaigne, father of the essay, claiming, “If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retention.” Last week I made a similar admission, wondering
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The following is an abridged version of a speech given by author Don Rearden during Alaska Book Week. Those of you who know me, also know that I claim to be a rejection expert. I am. I actually have an advanced degree in manuscript rejection survival. It’s the real MFA really, which stands for: Manuscript
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I asked a friend who recently moved to Anchorage from Barrow how long it took before the urge to buy 10 cases of paper towels every time he shopped at Costco wore off. He said it had been over nine months since he left the Bush and that moment had not yet occurred for him.
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Martha Amore with fellow Weathered Edge authors Buffy McKay and Kris Farmen,reading from her novella “Edge of Somewhere” at Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks Thank you, Fairbanks authors, for a warm welcome last weekend and for some good conversations about the local literary scene and the needs of Fairbanks writers. We will be following up soon with a
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Just when you think writers are a strange lot, you discover they’re even stranger. Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, had an intense connection to snails, which she bred at home. She once arrived at a London cocktail party carrying a handbag containing a head of lettuce and a hundred snails as
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Our featured author for November is Sara Loewen, whose first book, Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands, was published by the UA Press in February. She received her MFA in creative writing from the UAA Low-Residency Program in 2011. She works at Kodiak College and fishes commercially for salmon each summer with her family in
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I’ve never been one to go with the flow. If I was a salmon, I’d be swimming downstream. I’m a guy who’d run the Iditarod while standing backwards on the sled runners. I’m that lemming who stands on the edge of the cliff and shouts, “Oh, hell, no! I don’t think so!” Aren’t most writers
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Sometimes from within the shining grass, the headlights caught the eyes of some night animal: a skunk or badger, or down on the flats, coyotes. Seeing them, Urs slowed even more, feeling the car and himself to be one more night creature scurrying along with shining eyes. The full, round moon was beginning its descent.
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