The political writer Joe Klein (Primary Colors) has written, “Libraries are places where we writers go after we die, if we’re lucky. We’re going to live on through libraries. But there is also something more. In addition to being a place that we go after we die, (if we are lucky,) libraries are also the […]
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Wow. What a week. Dana Stabenow inks a deal with Evergreen Films toward a TV series featuring her Aleut PI, and Joan Kane earns a hugely prestigious Whiting Award. Front page of the Anchorage Daily News, two days running. Of course we covered the big news for Dana and Joan, too. Well done, Alaskan authors.
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Are you reading yet? Our 49 Writers online book club discussion begins a mere two weeks from Monday, featuring Cindy Dyson’s And She Was. Mark your calendars and grab a copy if you haven’t already. It’s an exciting time in publishing. Alaskan author Cinthia Richie proved this week that it’s still possible to break into
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Head out from the city, and the leaves are starting to turn. That can only mean one thing: it’s time to choose a title for our 49 Writers Fall Online Book Club discussion. Vote in the side bar to the right (below are links to descriptions and reviews of all nominated titles). Polling closes at
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What brilliant marketing–to publish a book that celebrates cold, in the middle of a hot summer. In those parts of the world where people actually vacation (as in relax with a book) in summer, as opposed to Alaska where we do the opposite during our all-too-brief go-for-it season, what could be more pleasurable than reading
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The king season got off to a shaky start, but Alaska is now thick with salmon. So many people are grabbing for their share that the state had to do a second run of personal use fishing permits. What better time for our 49 Writers “Ode to a Dead Salmon” Writing Contest? The idea for
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If you’re looking for great summer reading that (at $6.95) won’t break the bank, be sure to check out the current issue of Alaska Quarterly Review, one of the country’s premier literary magazines. By design, AQR doesn’t focus specifically on either Alaskan writers or Alaskan themes, but the Spring/Summer issue features a compelling nonfiction piece,
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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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Thanks to Nancy for this; continuing reports from all conferences still welcome! Quite a number of Alaska writers address, in one way or another, the Alaskan environment. We’re not all conventional “nature writers”—whatever that label implies—but it’s hard to ignore the influence of big spaces and wildlife on our experiences and imaginations. A number of
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Three poet laureates on Block Island (left to right, from Indiana, New Hampshire, and South Carolina), plus Alaska’s Nancy Lord, second from right. The Writer Laureate Meets the Poets Laureate Here are a few things I learned last month when I spent a week at a gathering of state poet laureates, where I was the
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