The October 2008 issue of Harper’s (subscription required) has a hilarious excerpt from Chris Offutt’s “The Offutt Guide to Literary Terms” (.pdf) which was published a year ago in the Seneca Review. A few goodies: MEMOIR: From the Latin memoria, meaning “memory,” a popular form in which the writer remembers entire passages of dialogue…
WXPN, the outstanding NPR music station out of the University of Pennsylvania, recently started a series called The Power of Song. From their web site: WXPN presents Power of Song, a series highlighting music and musicians that have had an impact on society and culture. In interviews and short-form profiles WXPN hosts and producers…
This afternoon in New Hope a friend took me over to Carl Christensen’s photography studio, Integrity Studio. Carl talked with us for quite a while about his technique and generously offered great advice and contacts for post-processing. He does spectacular landscape work of scenes in and around New Hope. My new project is to…
Dan Cohen plots the over 500 edits to Sarah Parlin’s Wikipedia entry composed by hundreds of people. Fascinating example of distributed collaborative writing.