Now that the new year’s well underway, we’ve opened nominations for our next 49 Writers online book club discussion. We’ve got a nice list going (Blonde Indian; The Yiddish Policemen’s Union; Rock, Water, Wild; The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife; A Land Gone Lonesome) but if you have another title to add, there’s still time before I […]
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49 Writers invaded the Pi Lounge at the Embassy Suites in Anchorage last night, a great venue (thanks to Kathleen Tarr for suggesting it) that facilitated lively conversation and good fun. We learned of old books from new authors (new to us, anyhow) and new books in the works from old friends. We promised an
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What happened to June? I spent part of it on a tough assignment as a guest lecturer on an Inside Passage cruise (more about that next week) and another bit at the Alaska Book Festival in Fairbanks, but that doesn’t account for it all, and boy, is it gone. Hopefully you caught the four great
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The only thing worse than going on book tour is not going, writes Ann Patchett (RUN; BEL CANTO) in this recent Atlantic magazine article. All of it rings true, including when she asks a writer friend about his memories of a certain 1992 book tour, and he admits, “I didn’t drink till book tour.” Patchett
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