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"It took Howard Langer two years from his first serious attempt at #writing — 60 pages longhand in pencil — to complete what would become “The Last Dekrepitzer.” It took almost two more years for the 74-year-old to find an agent and #publisher.
“I was 70 and I wanted to #write my whole life, and so I said to myself, ‘You know, if you don’t start now it’s not going to happen.’ So I sat down the next morning and began,” said Langer, a Philadelphia attorney who also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
Langer’s debut #novel about a fiddling #Hasidic #rabbi won the 2024 National #Jewish #Book Award and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 2024 #Literary Award.
“I was stunned when I received the call telling me of the award,” Langer said."
John Kenney: Listen to Yourself and Trust Yourself
John Kenney is the author of three novels and four books of poetry, including Love Poems for Married People. His first novel, Truth in Advertising, won the Thurber Prize for...
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Writer's Digest · John Kenney: Listen to Yourself and Trust YourselfIn this interview, Thurber Prize-winning author John Kenney discusses wanting to write a funny-ish book about death with his new novel, I See You’ve Called in Dead.
Hitting People in the Feels:
A quick roundup of some of the lovely reviews of The Gates of Polished Horn.
I'm really touched that this collection is working for readers. I was nervous to put some of these more serious and literary stories together with my usual blend of SFF and humor. But I guess it works. Thanks to @ilanderz for believing in the project!
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Boris Fishman: On Writing His Darkest Novel Yet
In this interview, author Boris Fishman discusses the frustrations that inspired his new literary novel, The Unwanted.
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Writer's Digest · Boris Fishman: On Writing His Darkest Novel YetIn this interview, author Boris Fishman discusses the frustrations that inspired his new literary novel, The Unwanted.
I was in Madison, Wisconsin, USA this week. Took a side trip to the House on The Rock. It's the setting for a pivotal scene in a certain fantasy novel that has since fallen out of favor with me.
1. It is exactly as the author described, which is to say, it is an EXPERIENCE.
2. I'm glad there were other people visiting. That is not a tour I'd want to take solo. So many creepy dolls, and a few clowns for good measure.
3. I should visit more #literary locales.
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BTW, this has been a #literary thread, not a politics thread. Don't get all righteous in my mentions today, plskthxbai.
4/4
Gentle diffused light,
Bringing down trickling rain drops,
Nature's fuel source.
Lee Martin: On Writing a Fast-Paced Literary Suspense Novel
In this interview, author Lee Martin discusses how his new literary suspense novel, The Evening Shades, is partly a crime novel and partly a love story.
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Writer's Digest · Lee Martin: On Writing a Fast-Paced Literary Suspense NovelIn this interview, author Lee Martin discusses how his new literary suspense novel, The Evening Shades, is partly a crime novel and partly a love story.
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Hannah Deitch: On Accepting More Positive Feedback https://www.writersdigest.com/hannah-deitch-on-accepting-more-positive-feedback #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #AuthorSpotlightSeries #WriteBetterFiction #Mystery/Thriller #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #LiteraryFiction #BeInspired #Interviews #Literary #mystery #Genre
Writer's Digest · Hannah Deitch: On Accepting More Positive FeedbackIn this interview, author Hannah Deitch discusses the difficult decision to leave her agent and find someone who had the same belief as she did in her new literary thriller, Killer Potential.
#Oregon musician, author, and teacher Willy Vlautin is a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, w00t! #arts #literary
https://www.orartswatch.org/oregon-author-willy-vlautin-is-a-finalist-for-the-50000-joyce-carol-oates-prize-from-the-new-literary-project/
Today in Labor History March 18, 1918: U.S. authorities arrested Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón under the Espionage Act. They charged him with hindering the American war effort and imprisoned him at Leavenworth, where he died under highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities claimed he died of a "heart attack," but Chicano inmates rioted after his death and killed the prison guard who they believed executed him. Magon published the periodical “Regeneracion” with his brother Jesus, and with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas. The Magonostas later led a revolution in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution. Many American members of the IWW participated. During the uprising, they conquered and held Tijuana for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Dos Passos references in his “USA Trilogy.”
#literary #historicalfiction #workingclass #LaborHistory #RicardoFloresMagon #magon #magonistas #mexico #mexican #Revolution #chicano #prison #Riot #books #author #writer @bookstadon
