Tag: writing
group name: mnreaders
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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July 31, 2009 06:42 AM EDT --
NPR recently featured Michael Kimball as a writer who can fir your life on a postcard ( story link ). The whole process of writing developed by Kimballs is just wonderful. I was surprised . . .
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August 08, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I've struggled with the notion of "writerhood" for years. I remember as a child, it was the only thing I wanted to be when I grew up. I was totally absorbed by books, spent entire summers . . .
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August 25, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
I"m right now reading a book titled "What Good are the Arts?" by John Carey, the chief book reviewer of The Sunday Times in London. In it, Carey takes a pretty bold stance that can be summed . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:43 AM EDT --
This morning in the 10 o'clock hour of Midmorning, Kerri Miller talks with James Levine, MD, a Mayo Clinic doctor and obesity researcher, about his new novel "The Blue Notebook," the story of a young . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
In The Art of Subtext , Minneapolis novelist Charles Baxter has gone well beyond other books on the writing of prose fiction. Baxter believes that fictional techniques work when they are rooted in basic . . .
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November 02, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
Election Day is soon upon us putting into even sharper view the small avalanche of political or world events books that are invariably released at this time. I can't quite manage a single one though . . .
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September 14, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Chat transcript follows.
Although you may have missed the chat, Robert Goolrick notes you can email him directly. "At inquiry@algonquin.com - they'll forward it to me."
MPR's Midmorning . . .
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May 03, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
The jury seems conflicted on this. I put my heart and soul into my novel, carried my characters in the pockets of my brain for years. As my manuscript sits in a file, I miss them. I wrote the novel online-- . . .
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October 11, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
A year ago I met a couple of the members of the Brainerd Writers' Alliance, and I was pleased when they invited me to be one of the judges in their annual contest and to offer a workshop prior to this . . .
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
Sunday night in a small coffee house in what the Twin Cities people call “Greater Minnesota,” a group of approximately 100 people crowded around a small stage to listen to poet Robert . . .
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January 10, 2007 04:05 PM EST --
Who doesn't wonder if their writing could make the leap from the Internet to print? I read so many articles on Gather and around the Web that nearly vibrate with vitality, and I wonder how these authors . . .
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December 29, 2006 06:53 PM EST --
Matt Beam has taught in various capacities in Toronto, Vancouver, Guatemala, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand and has written for newspapers that include the Toronto Star, the National Post, Toronto Life, . . .
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January 24, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
Does God Have a Sense of Humor?
A Book Review of "Lamb" by Christopher Moore
I had no idea what to expect between the covers of Christopher Moore’s 2002 novel, “Lamb: . . .
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June 02, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Why don't we know much about history?
For nearly twenty years, I have been working on that very troublesome question –and trying to solve the problem by writing and talking to people about . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
I favor mysteries for light reading – Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters), Adam Dalgleish (PD James), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers) and, of course, Agatha Christie and Dick Francis. But . . .
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February 14, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
February 14, 2007
Listen to feature audio
It's safe to say not many of us have ever heard of writer Joseph Kalar. He was a contemporary of . . .
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January 09, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Here are the writing resolutions I had for 2007:
(copied from old journal)
1. I resolve to earn more money per hour, thereby increasing my take-home pay and eventually becoming financially self-sufficient. . . .
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January 03, 2008 01:18 PM EST --
Like music, language is a living organism that's always growing, evolving and changing.
To that point, I recently a newspaper article that contained this sentence:
The research group . . .
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