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Crime City USA: March 2013
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Friday, March 1, 2013. Ernest Hemingway sought to be part of a bullshit-free generation. With postmodern writers like Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace we get nothing but. I’ve shown that with some writers today, every line they write is bullshit. They’re not representative of their generation, of course, only of a corrupt and decadent establishment literary scene. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Happy America Literature: May 2012
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THE POSITIVE MESSAGE OF NEW AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE. Sunday, May 27, 2012. The Truth About the Lit Scene. What keeps this little world atop the heap is their control of the print media. The flagship publications are staffed mainly by Ivy Leaguers sympathetic to the artistic ideas of the herd. They’re ideas designed to feed into the pack’s snobbery. Who’s their most lauded writer; their highest standard of literary value? Posted by Karl Wenclas. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Truth About the Lit Scene.
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Happy America Literature: November 2012
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THE POSITIVE MESSAGE OF NEW AMERICAN ART AND LITERATURE. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Why should writers of all stripes consider joining a renewed Underground Literary Alliance? Posted by Karl Wenclas. Tuesday, November 13, 2012. Who would be the immediate rivals on today’s literary scene to a resurrected Underground Literary Alliance? Right now I pick out three. 1) The McSweeney’s Gang. A) Eggers himself is not in any way an intellectual. He’s surrounded himself with strictly limited individual...B) They...
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Blitz Book Review: January 2012
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Blitz Blasts- Raves and Hates. Thursday, January 26, 2012. By Joel C. Rosenberg. Dead bodies were all over the scene.". A pro-war novel, one of a string of pro-war novels, by self-proclaimed Christian Joel C. Rosenberg. What happened to the Prince of Peace? Blood was everywhere. Khan was writhing and screaming in pain.". He didn't want to kill them, but they were armed and hostile, and if he had to do it, he wasn't going to feel guilty about it.". Rosenberg's novel is an obscenity, due to its falseness&#...
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Blitz Book Review: The Genre Novel
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Blitz Blasts- Raves and Hates. Thursday, January 5, 2012. What makes a great novel? British critic F. R. Leavis believed that a great work of fiction was both morally significant and artistically accomplished. By "moral" he didn't mean ideology, but a larger knowledge about character and humanity. Every death is a tragedy. Particularly when the bodies pile up (as they seem to do in my. You need to express a sense of the tragic; profound regret at the nature of the world. There's nothing original in this ...
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Blitz Book Review: Your Reviewer
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Blitz Blasts- Raves and Hates. Is a long-time literary promoter, activist, essayist, and critic who currently writes fiction and presents that writing in ebooks. Worth a look to get a sense of his ideas and tastes. Most bios about him online, wikipedia's included, are ridiculously inaccurate. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Blitzing the book world with reviews of excitement. SEND books to be praised or destroyed to (new address pending). View my complete profile. Eight Reasons People Write.
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Blitz Book Review: A Satire of America
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Blitz Blasts- Raves and Hates. Tuesday, February 14, 2012. A Satire of America. All Her Father's Guns. Intelligence starts with understanding there are at least two sides to every question. Higher intelligence believes you accept this, but strive to choose between conflicting viewpoints in the pursuit of truth. It means believing there's such a thing as truth, which today requires a leap of faith. Very few writers are able to make that leap, though some approach it partway. WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE NOVEL.
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Blitz Book Review: Updike's Obsolete Rules
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Blitz Blasts- Raves and Hates. John Updike once wrote six rules for book reviewing, which have been followed faithfully by Loyalist members of the literary status quo:. 1) Understand what the author tried to do. 2) Use enough direct quotations. 3) Confirm your description of the book with quotations. 4) Go easy on plot summary. 5) Cite a successful example of a book (author's or other). "Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours? Updike's rules, especially #5 and #6, put handcuffs on the...
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The Literary Circus: January 2014
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FUN DOINGS IN AN INSANE LITERARY WORLD. Sunday, January 12, 2014. Amanda Hocking's New Challenge. RUMOR HAS IT that best-selling speed writer Amanda Hocking has signed an agreement with a publisher to crank out ten new vampire novels- in one week! Hocking assures her editors that despite being written at superspeed, quality of the novels won't be affected one iota. They'll be just as, er, good as her other books. Stay tuned. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Amanda Hockings New Challenge.
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The Literary Circus: Questions Electric Literature Couldn't Answer
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FUN DOINGS IN AN INSANE LITERARY WORLD. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Questions Electric Literature Couldn't Answer. A quote from the Two Million-Dollar Man, Garth Risk Hallberg, from 2012:. The 'inside literary world' as such no longer really exists- ". Is that a true statement? It's a question worthy of debate. It's also a question the "inside literary world" itself won't acknowledge. Yesterday I had an interesting exchange on twitter with Electric Literature- www.electricliterature.com. I asked the qu...
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