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"It took Howard Langer two years from his first serious attempt at #writing — 60 pages longhand in pencil — to complete what would become “The Last Dekrepitzer.” It took almost two more years for the 74-year-old to find an agent and #publisher.
“I was 70 and I wanted to #write my whole life, and so I said to myself, ‘You know, if you don’t start now it’s not going to happen.’ So I sat down the next morning and began,” said Langer, a Philadelphia attorney who also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
Langer’s debut #novel about a fiddling #Hasidic #rabbi won the 2024 National #Jewish #Book Award and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s 2024 #Literary Award.
“I was stunned when I received the call telling me of the award,” Langer said."
John Kenney: Listen to Yourself and Trust Yourself
John Kenney is the author of three novels and four books of poetry, including Love Poems for Married People. His first novel, Truth in Advertising, won the Thurber Prize for...
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https://www.writersdigest.com/john-kenney-listen-to-yourself-and-trust-yourself
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Writer's Digest · John Kenney: Listen to Yourself and Trust YourselfIn this interview, Thurber Prize-winning author John Kenney discusses wanting to write a funny-ish book about death with his new novel, I See You’ve Called in Dead.
Hitting People in the Feels:
A quick roundup of some of the lovely reviews of The Gates of Polished Horn.
I'm really touched that this collection is working for readers. I was nervous to put some of these more serious and literary stories together with my usual blend of SFF and humor. But I guess it works. Thanks to @ilanderz for believing in the project!
Boris Fishman: On Writing His Darkest Novel Yet
In this interview, author Boris Fishman discusses the frustrations that inspired his new literary novel, The Unwanted.
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Writer's Digest · Boris Fishman: On Writing His Darkest Novel YetIn this interview, author Boris Fishman discusses the frustrations that inspired his new literary novel, The Unwanted.
I was in Madison, Wisconsin, USA this week. Took a side trip to the House on The Rock. It's the setting for a pivotal scene in a certain fantasy novel that has since fallen out of favor with me.
1. It is exactly as the author described, which is to say, it is an EXPERIENCE.
2. I'm glad there were other people visiting. That is not a tour I'd want to take solo. So many creepy dolls, and a few clowns for good measure.
3. I should visit more #literary locales.
Gentle diffused light,
Bringing down trickling rain drops,
Nature's fuel source.
Lee Martin: On Writing a Fast-Paced Literary Suspense Novel
In this interview, author Lee Martin discusses how his new literary suspense novel, The Evening Shades, is partly a crime novel and partly a love story.
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Writer's Digest · Lee Martin: On Writing a Fast-Paced Literary Suspense NovelIn this interview, author Lee Martin discusses how his new literary suspense novel, The Evening Shades, is partly a crime novel and partly a love story.
#Oregon musician, author, and teacher Willy Vlautin is a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, w00t! #arts #literary
https://www.orartswatch.org/oregon-author-willy-vlautin-is-a-finalist-for-the-50000-joyce-carol-oates-prize-from-the-new-literary-project/
Today in Labor History March 18, 1918: U.S. authorities arrested Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón under the Espionage Act. They charged him with hindering the American war effort and imprisoned him at Leavenworth, where he died under highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities claimed he died of a "heart attack," but Chicano inmates rioted after his death and killed the prison guard who they believed executed him. Magon published the periodical “Regeneracion” with his brother Jesus, and with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas. The Magonostas later led a revolution in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution. Many American members of the IWW participated. During the uprising, they conquered and held Tijuana for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Dos Passos references in his “USA Trilogy.”
#literary #historicalfiction #workingclass #LaborHistory #RicardoFloresMagon #magon #magonistas #mexico #mexican #Revolution #chicano #prison #Riot #books #author #writer @bookstadon
Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”
#utah #chemicalweapons #wmd #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nerveagent #army #airforce #literary #stephenking #historicalfiction #books #author #writer #horror @bookstadon
Finally read Wuthering Heights + listened to the audio book.
Damn, that was messed up.
"Manya Wilkinson has won the 2025 Wingate #Literary Prize for Lublin (And Other Stories, 2024), a “wholly unique coming of age #novel, fusing #fable, #history and #Jewish #joke-making, set against the backdrop of the oncoming darkness of the 20th century”.
She was announced as winner at an event at Kings Place as part of Jewish #Book Week, chaired by Emily Kasriel, #author and trustee of the Wingate Foundation."
The BooksellerManya Wilkinson wins the Wingate Literary Prize for ‘astonishing’ novel LublinManya Wilkinson has won the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize for Lublin (And Other Stories, 2024), a “wholly unique coming of age novel, fusing fable, history and Jewish joke-making, set against the backdrop of the oncoming darkness of the 20th century”.
The conference "Script-switching in #Literary Texts" will take place online on March 12-14, 2025.
Deadline for registration: March 10, 2025
Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/script-switching-in-literary-texts-online-conference/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies
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The opening crawl from Star Wars, in the style of The Bard:
It is a period of civil war.
The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
From base unseen, have gain'd a vict'ry o'er
The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail'd
And stole the plans to a space station vast,
Whose pow'rful beams will later be unveil'd
And crush a planet: 'tis the DEATH STAR blast.
Pursu'd by agents sinister and cold,
Now Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
Deliv'ring plans and a new hope they hold:
Of bringing freedom to the galaxy.
In time so long ago begins our play,
In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.
Ah, yes, the noble pursuit of finding typos in the sacred texts of computer science 
. Our hero spends six whole minutes unraveling the mysteries of Knuth's misplaced variables, all to earn Monopoly money from the Bank of San Serriffe 
. Next up: critiquing Shakespeare for dangling participles. 
https://glthr.com/discovering-errors-in-donald-knuths-taocp #typo-hunting #computer-science #Knuth #humor #literary-critique #San-Serriffe #HackerNews #ngated
Guillaume Lethuillier's blog · Discovering Errors in Donald Knuth’s TAOCP
#CfP for the panel "#Queer Print Infrastructures in #Literary #Modernism" at the 2025 #Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference, which will take place in Boston on October 9-12, 2025.
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2025
Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/msa-boston-2025-queer-print-infrastructures-in-literary-modernism-modernist-studies-association-co/ #LiteratureGender #LiteratureHistory #LiteraryHistory @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies
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"A refreshing new voice on the #literary front has released a modern #fantasy where ancient #Hebrew #mysticism comes alive on the streets of #NewYork.
THE SANHEDRIN CHRONICLES by J.S. Gold offers a unique take on the fantasy genre, combining elements of mysticism, #faith, and #adventure.
Packed with #action,# mystery, and #Jewish #folklore, THE SANHEDRIN CHRONICLES is a compelling read for fans of urban fantasy and #religious #mythology."
Today in Labor History February 16, 1848: Octave Mirbeau, French novelist and playwright was born. Mirbeau wrote highly transgressive novels that dealt with violence, abuse and psychological detachment. He was also an anarchist and supporter of Alfred Dreyfuss, the Jewish French military officer wrongfully convicted of treason in an antisemitic show trial. He completed his novel, “The Torture Garden,” during the Dreyfess trial and dedicated it to "the priests, soldiers, judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."
#workingclass #LaborHistory #fiction #literary #novel #OctaveMirbeau #satire #AlfredDreyfess #author #writer #antisemitism #playwright #anarchism #fiction #books @bookstadon
