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Tag Archives: Michael Cunningham
Mini Book Reviews
I’m going to share my thoughts about some of the books I’ve read recently, though I should be preparing the syllabus for my summer class that starts next week. I hope you will forgive me for at lest one of … Continue reading →
Posted in Criticism & Reviews
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, By Nightfall (2010), Cory Skerry, Eli Easton, Elizabeth Hand, Erin Morgenstern, Get In Trouble: Stories, Glimmerglass: A Novel, Holiday (2010), John Chu, Kai Ashante Wilson, Kelly Link, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Marie Kondo, Marie-Helene Bertino, Marly Youmans, Mary Rickert, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Radiant Days (2012), Safe as Houses: Stories, Sam J. Miller, Steve Berman, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Memory Garden (2014), The Night Circus, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances, Wilde Stories 2014
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux creates wonderful, whimsical sculptures, vaguely Steampunkish in design. He started working first in animation, but now creates his sculptures full time. If you speak French, … Continue reading →
Posted in Magpie Monday
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Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alan Moore, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Angel, Aniron, Ansa and the Lost Thing by Sophie Wereley, Be Happy for No Reason by Erin Morgenstern, bebionic v3, Ben Towle, Better Than Visiting Sunnydale, Black King, Bound Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Brad Pitt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limerick Episode Guide, Cameron Cook, card catalogs, Carl Sagan, Carl Warner, Cat Mihos, Chuck Wendig, Cosmos, cuckoos, Cullen Bunn, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Horse, Deathbird, deceptive dust covers, Did Someone Say Hellmouth?, Doc Savage, Doctor Strange, Doheny Library (USC), Dr. Light, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Enya, fairy-wrens, film trailers, finding time to write, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, foodscapes, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hamlet, Hannah Jarrett, Hawkman, Henry James, Idris Elba, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino, James Bond, Jimmy's End, Joe Queenan, John Lingan, Just Today by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Justice League Dark, Kevin St. Jarre, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Lightspeed, Locke & Key, London Falling by Paul Cornell, macaroni and cheese, Marnie Dresser, Martha Stewart, Matt Kaplan, Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dirda, Mireille Enos, Misty Knight, Mitch Jenkins, Monsieur Hublot, Mumford and Sons, My Mother's Shadow by Henry Lu, myths about science, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Ackland, Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, parthenogenesis, Perdido Street Station, polar bears, President Barack Obama, prosthetics, Rachelle Gardner, Red at the End of the World by Lynda E. Rucker, Richard Symons, Roderick Constance, Russell Hinson, Sam Wolk, sculpture, Searching for Slave Leia by Sandra McDonald, Seth Abramson, solar system (photographs), Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown, spices, Steampunk, Stéphane Halleux, Swamp Thing, talent and discipline, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, teaching writing, teapots, The Fearless Defenders, The Hellboy Timeline, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, The Super Team Family Blog, The Tides by Ken Liu, Theodora Goss, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Valkyrie, Virginia Woolf, Waffle Meringue Productions, Warren Ellis, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wild Things by Alyx Dellamonica, wildlife photography, Will Ludwigsen, Will Sliney, William Hodge, William James, winter storms, Wired.com, Wonder Woman, World War Z, Yagharek, Yorick
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I came across Kris Kuksi‘s elaborately detailed sculptures about two years ago, and for some reason unknown even to me I didn’t do any further research on him. Clearly, … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged Alex Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed Meets Parkour in Real Life, Athenaeum by J★RYU, author photos, Awesome People Reading, Axel Medellin Machain, Ben Towle, bird funerals, book cover art, BookRiot, bookstores, Chuck Wendig, comic books (organization), Daily Science Fiction, Deepa Mehta, Divination & Delusion, Don't Write Comics, Downton Abbey (Season 3), El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Hand, Errantry: Strange Stories (cover art), fairy-tale films, fake foreign accents, film trailers, For They Heard the First Sound and Trembled by Jessica Breheny, Game of Thrones (theme song), Georgia O'Keeffe, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, J★RYU, John Bishop, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julie Ditrich, KellyThompson, Kris Kuksi, Le Parkour, Leah Palmer Preiss, Let's All Sing like the Birdies Sing by Paul G. Di Filippo, Lindsey Stirling, Marc Basile, Medusa, Michael Cunningham, Midnight's Children, Overheard at The Platonic Ideal Bar and Grill by Aimee Vanessa Blume, Paul Muad'Dib (Dune), Peter Hollens, post-genre, Rachelle Gardner, Richard Scarry, Rotofugi Gallery, Salman Rushdie, sculpture, sex (19th century euphemisms), sex (writing), sexual promiscuity, Small Beer Press, style guides, testosterone, The Ghost of You Haunted Me... by J★RYU (exhibit), The Mobius Garden by James Bambury, The Taste of Salt by Rachel Halpern, The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson (cover art), Trouble Magazine, Will Ludwigsen, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman (TV series), zombies
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ This past week my friend Ruth Facebook-linked to Jonathan Moreau’s photograph of the library parking garage in Kansas City. Wouldn’t it be nice to have something like this garage … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday
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Tagged AlphaBooks, Aquaman, Arvo Pärt, Batman, Ben Towle, Better Book Titles, Blair Erickson, book shelves, BookRiot, books about books, cake, Cameron Cook, Charles Murray Padday, Charles Santore, Charles Schulz, Charlie Jane Anders, children's books, Chuck Wendig, Cinderella, Comic-Con International: San Diego, comics (writing), Creative Commons, Crockett Johnson, Daily Science Fiction, Dan Hillier, deafness, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Hand, Evan Robertson, Fables, fairy tales, fairy tales (art), fantasy (writing), film trailers, Fractured Fairy Tales (gallery show), Franz Kappus, From Kane to Nolan: Seventy Years of Bat Evolution, Funny or Die, Gennady Spirin, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Helena Garcia, Hellboy in Hell, Hermione Granger, hint reviews, Holli Mintzer, Hope Mirrlees, Hungary, infographics, IQ, J.H. Williams III, James Hutchings, James Joyce, Jeanie Tomanek, Joao Ruas, Jonathan Moreau, Kansas City, Kate Beaton, Kate Chopin, Kelly Thompson, Kelly Williams, Kevin Bapp, Kinuko Y. Craft, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Letters to a Young Poet, libraries, Little Wolf Riding Hood, Love the Mermaids and You, Lud-in-the-Mist, lying, M.D. Herter Norton, Marie Rutkoski, Mermaid, Michael Cunningham, Michael Swanwick, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Nikola Tesla, omniscient narrator, opening sentence (fantasy novels), optical illusions, oxytocin, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Peanuts, Penelope Trunk, polyandry, Prince Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de La Lanne-Mirrlees, prodigy, Pulitzer prize (Fiction), Quotable Arts, Radio Free Other, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ruth Sanderson, Sam Raimi, Seinfeld, self-publishing, selkies, steampunk (cakes), Stefan Kiesbye, Super Golden Friends, Superman, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Awakening, The Golden Girls, The Hanging Garden, The Nature of Cinderella, The Oatmeal, The Sandman, Theodora Goss, toxic waste, typos, Ulysses, Will Ludwigsen, Wonderful World of Animation, WWA Gallery, Your House Is on Fire Your Children All Gone
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Michael Cunningham is one of my favorite authors (I have not read By Nightfall yet, so don’t tell me about it), and when I saw a link to a … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged AlphaBooks, Ben Towle, Benedict Cumberbatch, brand (authors), business cards, Caravaggio, Christopher Boffoli, Chuck Wendig, Clark&Kent, comics (writing), Connie Willis, Disparity, Doomsday Book, Dr. Dillamond, Dylan Meconis, Elizabeth Hand, Franz Kafka, Gregory Maguire, HGTV, honeybees, House Hunters, House Hunters International, Jo Walton, Joshua Simpson, Kathy Keatley Garvey, Kickstarter, Leda, libraries, LitReactor, magazines, Michael Cunningham, Miss Aniela, Neal Patrick Harris, Neil Gaiman, Outfoxed, peanut butter cups, platform (authors), Postcard Stories, Renaissance painters, Robert Jackson Bennett, Roberto Ferri, Scott McCloud, SF Signal, swans, The Crying of Lot 49, The Metamorphosis, Thomas Pynchon, Tony Awards, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Will Ludwigsen, Work in Progress (FSG)
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