December 7, 1941—seventy years ago today. All week we’ve been treated to news items about Pearl Harbor and the run-up to World War II, and I’ve felt the glimmer and pull of intriguing forgotten stories, trying to distract me from my current work, which is not set in the 1940s. (The current WIP has two […]
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Need a break from the holiday madness? Treat yourself to an evening at Café Felix, adjacent to Metro Books, where on Thursday, December 8 from 7-8:30 pm, our own Don Rearden will be featured in an informal talk on our collective literary obsession. Rearden, whose films have aired on TMC and Showtime, will share how
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Andromeda Romano-Lax will be teaching a three-week class called “Perspectives and Viewpoints” for the 49 Writing Center, starting next Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Advance registration required; a few spots remain. Last week, she wrote about why POV matters for readers. This week, she writes about POV breakthroughs, from the writer’s perspective. Some writers have point-of-view,
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For the next three weeks, I’ll be blogging about time as an essential part of narrative structure. I’ll be teaching a 3-week class called “Time in Narration” on this subject on Tuesday nights beginning Oct. 4. In the class, which covers both fiction and nonfiction, we’ll be reading, writing, investigating our default choices, and developing
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We’re hearing rumors of sunshine in Anchorage this weekend, but even if it’s pouring down rain we’d love for you to stop by our WYAK Write Young Alaska booth at the Spenard Farmers Market on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 9 am to 2 pm at the corner of Spenard and 26th Ave. Our lovely teen
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Sick-lit, I discover today while net-surfing, is an entire misery-memoir subgenre. Its mainstay is the cancer memoir, and it relies on healthy doses of humor, as one can guess from titles like Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, by Miriam Engelberg, and Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting, by Meredith Norton. No,
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So, Borders is pulling out of its South Anchorage location and shuttering about 200 stores nationwide over the next few weeks. It’s not unexpected, and for years, I felt torn between the big-box bookstores and our smaller indies, but not so torn that I failed to spend hundreds of dollars in the conveniently located store,
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49 Writers is spreading its wings beyond the Anchorage area! Last Tuesday’s ‘Resolve To Write’ event in Homer, co-ordinated by Miranda Weiss, had a great attendance of around 15. Writers of all stripes connected over burger and brew at Alice’s Champagne Palace, received an insider preview and some background stories about Nancy Lord’s new book,
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Two weeks ago precisely, I mentioned that I was busy getting my husband and 12-year-old daughter out the door for a winter camping trip — one they were doing for school-related reasons. (In other words, this was not my husband’s idea of fun, nor was the timing ideal.) Blogging is not like methodical essay-writing. Hurrying
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Andromeda Romano-Lax and Deb Vanasse will be talking about the 49 Alaska Writing Center at the next Alaska Professional Communicators’ Luncheon, Thursday November 4 at 11:30, at Kinley’s Restaurant. Lunch is $19 for guests, $25 for members. The APC website has details. If you read us regularly, you may recognize our upcoming courses: Flash Fiction
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