Sleight of Hand
Fri, Dec 11 2009 12:32 PM
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I hate it when writers who write about writing resort to forced, labored, pretentious analogies to illuminate the mysteries of the craft. Whenever I read something like, “Writing, when you think about it, is as delicate and sacred a process as butter-churning,” I picture that poor bastard of a simile shackled at the ankles and marching across a rice field in southern Louisiana
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Bad Beats
Fri, Dec 4 2009 05:06 PM
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A few nights ago I attended an author reading at Full Circle Books, the venerable and excellent indie bookstore here in Oklahoma City. The author was Hank Stuever, a Pulitzer-nominated journalist from the Washington Post whose new non-fiction book, TINSEL – about Christmas in the heart of 21st-century America (Frisco, Texas!) – is getting great reviews and making year-end best-of lists.
Gutshot Straight's Second Review
Mon, Nov 16 2009 03:51 PM
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The Booklist review for GUTSHOT STRAIGHT just came out and it’s starred. All I can say is: Wow. (Well, what I actually said, upon reading this review, was a string of jubilantly grateful profanity punctuated at the end by “Wow.”)
Riding Along - Part 2
Thu, Nov 12 2009 04:35 PM
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Good Cop/Bad Cop can be a great narrative device if approached in a fresh way (one of the best versions of all time is in L.A. CONFIDENTIAL). In real life, though, the dynamic can be a lot more complex.
Gutshot Straight's First Review
Thu, Nov 5 2009 06:01 PM
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The first, pre-publication review of GUTSHOT STRAIGHT came out this week, in the Nov. 2 issue of Publishers Weekly, and it was an excellent one.
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