Let’s hear one of your rejection letters – not one of those flattering close-calls, but a real doozy, like the kind you might get from C. Michael Curtis.
Come on. They don’t hurt so bad when you see we’ve all got ‘em!
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Wednesday, Jessica Keener will be here to talk about being on both sides of the [...]
What do you hope people will believe about you that couldn’t be further from the truth?
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Wednesday’s guest is going to appear a little later than usual because I’m coordinating my show with McSweeney’s. Sometime Wednesday morning, one of their regular feature writers, also a friend of mine, will reveal his true identity over there, while [...]
How would you characterize your driving? (Or, maybe I should ask how the person in the passenger seat would characterize your driving?)
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Wednesday, Bridgett M. Davis will be here. She is the screenwriter and director of the award-winning, indie film, NAKED ACTS, and author of the novel, SHIFTING THROUGH NEUTRAL.
She also happens to be married to [...]
Can you tell your life story in six words? Give it a try.
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Wednesday, the editors of Smith Magazine will be here to talk about the six-word memoirs they collected into a book called NOT QUITE WHAT I WAS PLANNING. Hope you’ll be back to join the conversation!
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Oh… and a reminder! Have you entered the [...]
Here’s a reminder that tomorrow is THE LIAR’S DIARY Blog Day, and more than 300 of you said, “Count me in!”
THE LIAR’S DIARY at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Powell’s
My post will go up at midnight tomorrow, and you are more than welcome to take any text, photos, audio or video you like in order [...]
What mode of public transportation do you take most often? And tell a story of one of those travels.*Wednesday, Dan Passamaneck will be here. Dan runs the compassionately observant and heartwarming blog, The Chucklehut, and his book proposal called FELLOW TRAVELERS is about the people he observes while taking public transport around the Bay Area. [...]
Do you have a memory involving a clown? I want to hear it.
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Wednesday, Lance will interview Monica Drake, the author of CLOWN GIRL. And P.S., he’s also going to do Friday’s Weekly Wrap because he has some news to share!
What have you learned from losing something or someone important to you?
This question covers the whole gamut from death of a loved one to being dumped to losing your belongings in a hurricane to losing family members to mental illness to having your doctoral dissertation disappear because of a computer virus. Loss. And more specifically, [...]
I know you all want book deals. You want to be skinnier, richer, all of that. But what do you plan to do in 2008 that will make a difference in the world?
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Wednesday, Anthony Marais will be here, and to cut me a break, he’s going to do the interviewing. Stop by and join the [...]
Tell me about the best teacher, or teaching experience, you ever had.
And a bonus: Start up your iTunes, your iPod, whatever, and now hit shuffle. Tell me what 5 songs come up first. No cheating! You cannot re-shuffle to try to make yourself look cool.
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Wednesday, Paul Green will be here. Paul is the subject [...]
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