Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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There’s a lovely Truman Capote short story, something he wrote for a woman’s magazine in the ’50s, when he was minting his writerly self. A Christmas Memory reads as memoir and describes a little boy and his elderly distant cousin, unlikely friends in a not very friendly household. Each Christmas, they make each other paper…
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It’s a fine thing when friends and family say they like your book. That fine feeling gets better—excellent, let’s say—when a publisher says, “We think we can make money with your book.” Now the opinions on The Booker Rebellion have begun to arrive. Somebody hand me a cool drink and a fan. Snippets: There’s a…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 