http://www.encorebooks.ca/blog Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:24:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.encorebooks.ca/blog/?p=168&cpage=1#comment-10 In Praise of the East Coast: Lynn Coady « Limited Supervision Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:24:53 +0000 http://www.encorebooks.ca/blog/?p=168#comment-10 [...] Mean Boy‘s hero (with the unfortunately un-sexy name “Larry” – no offence to my first writing teacher, Larry Garber) drinks tea  and uses a typewriter, qualities which he hopes make him a more authentic poet.  But he also suffers from freight-train hangovers and is forever getting gently rejected by girls, which keeps it all real.  The whole book pokes fun at broody undergrads who take themselves far too seriously (um… I have no idea what she’s talking about… cough), especially when it comes to the overindulgent piety of literary readings, which happen way too often in creative writing departments and never seem to deliver much (except where gifted performance meets solid writing skills, best orchestrated by people like my former classmate Kasper). [...] [...] Mean Boy‘s hero (with the unfortunately un-sexy name “Larry” – no offence to my first writing teacher, Larry Garber) drinks tea  and uses a typewriter, qualities which he hopes make him a more authentic poet.  But he also suffers from freight-train hangovers and is forever getting gently rejected by girls, which keeps it all real.  The whole book pokes fun at broody undergrads who take themselves far too seriously (um… I have no idea what she’s talking about… cough), especially when it comes to the overindulgent piety of literary readings, which happen way too often in creative writing departments and never seem to deliver much (except where gifted performance meets solid writing skills, best orchestrated by people like my former classmate Kasper). [...]

]]> http://www.encorebooks.ca/blog/?p=287&cpage=1#comment-9 Tweets that mention An Interview with Robert Earl Stewart | Encore Literary Magazine -- Topsy.com Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:30:31 +0000 http://www.encorebooks.ca/blog/?p=287#comment-9 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mansfield Press. Mansfield Press said: Great little interview with Robert Earl Stewart, author of Something Burned Along the Southern Border! http://tinyurl.com/yg6on4d [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mansfield Press. Mansfield Press said: Great little interview with Robert Earl Stewart, author of Something Burned Along the Southern Border! http://tinyurl.com/yg6on4d [...]

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