Category: writing / books
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Read This or Else
So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…
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Book Review: The Colorado Kid, by Stephen King
Casual fans of Stephen King might have missed this book. It came out in 2005 as a little paperback published by Hard Case Crime – a small publisher of pulp mystery novels. I didn’t know it existed until recently. This is a tiny little story. The entire tale unfolds as a single conversation taking place…
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So It Goes
Aw shit, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died. Celebrity deaths don’t affect me often, but there is something different about authors. My heart skipped a few beats when I heard this. I think many people have a very real and very intimate connection with authors. Stephen King once wrote that writing is like telepathy, and in a…
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