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Chasing Solitude | Pilgrimage to the Dead Sea
Featured image | by Keith Chan My skin feels as though it might crack under the relentless heat like a patchwork of asphalt in summer, longing for moisture and relief. We hike for hours under the merciless sun. Our train of seventeen hikers looks like a line of ants fleeing an impending storm, but I know there is no chance of rain for the next several weeks at least.
Coyote Smith | JOYLAND
Elmer had seen a skull once, as a child, by the Zigzag river. There’d been moss growing over the bone as if it were another river rock, trilliums climbing up out of the mouth. He’d turned it over in his little palms, picked off the moss with his nubby fingernails and found the cracks where the pieces of the cranium fit together like a puzzle. He had never told anyone about it. He didn’t know who it belonged to.
Such A Fun Age Book Club Questions
One of 2020’s standout novels for me, Kiley Reid’s terrific debut gives barbed commentary on problematic race relations and self-congratulatory white feminism. Such A Fun Age brilliantly eviscerates”woke” culture and lays bare the duplicity that lies beneath. This makes it a fantastic book club pick as it addresses timely themes both on and off-line and questions prevalent norms that are in vogue.
Ideal Day Jobs for Crime Novelists
Check your morals at the door, but don't forget your favorite ski mask. When you tell people you are writing (or aspire to write) crime fiction, many of them will tell you, “Don’t quit your day job.” Don’t listen to them. You should totally quit your day job. And then get a much better one—one that’s ideally suited to you becoming a successful crime novelist. You see, most “real” jobs feature long hours.
Scream, You’re a Star: Susan George in 1971
By Brian Greene October 17, 2019 Susan George (born 1950) had a string of movie roles under her belt before 1971. In those early film appearances, the gorgeous blonde with the alluringly pretty eyes and nice legs was sometimes used largely as cinematic eye candy. And while there were varying degrees of more dramatic roles for George through that slew of releases, her parts in a trio of films that came out in ’71 were more substantive than the ones she’d previously played.
15 Crime Novels as Funny as They Are Gritty
By Greg Levin August 26, 2019 From Leonard to Evanovich, these 15 novels will have you laughing with and cheering on characters you’d probably be caught dead with in real life. My love of both humor and illicit behavior started at a very young age, ignited by watching my two older brothers try to kill one another over the rights to whatever toy came in the box of Trix breakfast cereal my mother had just bought. Silly rabbit, bloodlust is for kids.
The Hard-Knock Nanny Life
Knowing they had not prepared me for any kind of security, my MFA professors told me to maintain a shitty job after graduation. Something like waitressing. Something that would keep me writing, if only in order to prove to myself that I wasn’t just a waitress. I decided to become a nanny instead.
10 Genre-Bending Thrillers by Madeline Stevens — Criminal Element
Author Madeline Stevens lists 10 genre-bending thriller movies that subvert expectations and succeed in turning up the suspense. See who made the list and then comment for a chance to win Madeline's debut novel Devotion. Most of my favorite stories, whether written or on the big screen, have one thing in common: it’s difficult to put them in a box. Shamelessly borrowing tropes from multiple genres and subverting expected plot structures serves to expand our understanding of how narrative works.
When Is A Legal Thriller Not a Legal Thriller?
Is there such a thing as a psychological legal thriller? When I was a little girl, there was one thing we were not allowed to do in our house: talk during The Perry Mason Show. Seriously. When Perry Mason was on TV, my sister and I were required, if we wanted to watch it and of course we did, not to say a word. During the commercials we could ask my lawyer stepfather questions, like: What does immaterial mean? And do you think they know that Hamilton Burger sounds like hamburger?
Week Of Women: August 9-15, 2019
It's a wonderful week for music, books, TV... I could go on. From the return of Netflix's GLOW to the premiere of Tiffany Haddish's comedy series, here's what to consider adding to your rotation this week. MOVIES/TV GLOW The Emmy-nominated series about a 1980s syndicated women’s wrestling circuit is coming back for a third season set in Las Vegas! New episodes August 9 on Netflix.
The Books That Need To Be On Your Reading List This Summer
Home Lifestyle Say hello to your newest poolside companions - by Maeve Galea 'Tis the season for reading, napping and reading some more. Make the most of your summer with these new releases. Poemsia by Lang Leav (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99) With more than 530,000 followers on Instagram Lang Leav is one of the trailblazing “Instapoets” who has used social media to bring the art form to new generations of fans.
Creative Writing at Quantum Leap
In addition to a handwritten letter of thanks, I'll send you a copy of my lesson plans and notes on teaching the course. Eventually, I'd like to make these available for anyone to use, but you'll be among the first to see them.
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