Welcome, lurkers and talkers, to the 49 Writers online book club discussion. Today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday), we’ve got an open forum for discussion of A Man of His Village by Tanyo Ravicz. Leave your comments and/or questions using the comment feature, tagged with either your Google ID, a name of your choosing, or Anonymous. […]
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Our 49 Writers online book club selction, Tanyo Ravicz’s A Man of His Village, “remains the most original and gripping work of fiction set in Alaska that I have ever read,” says Mike Dunham of the Anchorage Daily News. Ravicz will stop by our Sept. 20-21 online discussion to answer reader questions, and he also
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While we’re poking fun at ourselves with the Ode to a Dead Salmon bad writing contest (deadline August 15), we’ve got plenty of good writing to celebrate, too. Once each quarter, we pick a great Northern book to read and discuss in our 49 Writers online book club. We begin the book selection process by
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Poetic justice hits 49 Writers. We novelists who think ourselves so clever with the element of suspense are now wallowing in it ourselves as we wait to hear: do we or don’t we have a home for our Alaska Writing Center? Hang in there – we’re working through some logistical challenges and hope to have
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Thanks to all who participated in our 49 Writers online book club discussion this week of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. We enjoyed an engaging dialogue with one another and with the author. Looking ahead, the next online book club discussion will feature David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide. Thanks also to all the children’s
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Today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday), we’ve got an open forum for discussion of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. Leave your comments and/or questions using the comment feature, tagged with either your Google ID, a name of your choosing, or Anonymous. If you have questions or comments for the author, start them with “Nancy.” Stop
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Our readers have spoken: the next selection for our 49 Writers online book club discussion is Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. Pick up your copy soon, in preparation for our online discussion March 1 and 2. In the meantime, we’ll apply the old arm twist – it shouldn’t be hard – for an interview and
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There’s a tight race underway for our next 49 Writers online book club choice. It’s great to see all the interest, with lots of fans for each book. If you haven’t already voted, you can weigh in (once) at our sidebar poll before 5 p.m. Sunday. The online discussion will be March 1 and 2,
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If genies granted wishes for books, we’d first ask for quality. Right behind we’d want readers, and for that you need buzz. In today’s mega-marketing culture, most buzz comes from money dumped on celeb authors or books that don’t need it. But there’s a back door to buzz: book clubs and awards. Book clubs pack a double wallop.
If you’ve been reading at 49 Writers, you’re familiar with our 49 Writers quarterly online book club discussions. Last quarter (we fudged it into last week) we shook things up with a fabulous 49 Writers poetry discussion, led by Sandra Kleven. This quarter we return to a more traditional format. We’ll begin the book selection
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