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Monthly Archives: August 2011
My Kind of Flash Mob
Thanks to those wizard inventors of cell phones, Twitter, Facebook, viral emails and other social media connections, we’ve come into the age of the flash mob. For the uninitiated, a flash mob happens when people suddenly assemble in a public … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review Party, cell phone, Dancing With Gravity, Facebook, flash mob, freshman read, priest, Ruby Trice, Social Media, Twitter, viral email
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Those Tags Really Work!
Ever wonder if tags on your posts really work? Let me share my own recent example. On July 16th, I read from my debut novel, Dancing With Gravity, at the Iowa City Book Festival. We recorded my reading and posted … Continue reading
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Tagged Channel 18, Dancing With Gravity, debut novel, Iowa, Iowa City Book Festival, PATV, Public Access TV, tag
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Drumroll for a Dilemma
In a world frequented by writers and other creative sufferers, psychotherapy recognizes an unsolvable human affliction: cognitive dissonance. It’s the ability to simultaneously engage conflicting viewpoints. Writers want to have their work speak for themselves, and yet…there is always a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, Iowa City Book Festival, J.D. Salinger
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Fresh Ideas in Your InBox Every Day
Do you subscribe to The Writer’s Almanac? It’s a wonderful free e-newsletter (although contributions are certainly welcome) from those amazing people at NPR. Each morning you’ll find a poem and all sorts of interesting reading/writing related information in your Inbox. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Garrison Keillor, George Orwell, Neil Postman, NPR, The Writer's Almanac
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The Writer In The World
Joan Didion once told an interviewer about being in Las Vegas and watching a woman in a trench coat walk through a casino. Something about the woman, her demeanor, the coat, or the hour caught Didion’s imagination. She said she … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, Burning Rods, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
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