October 2011

Kindle Aflame

October 18, 2011

Nearly 60 years ago, sci-fi scribe Ray Bradbury put the “lit” in literature when he opened his dystopian exploration of censorship Fahrenheit 451 with the memorable line “It was a pleasure to burn.” In the classic fable of a world without books, “firemen” of the future pump kerosene onto pulp, thus keeping dangerous ideas from impressionable minds. [...]

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How to be a Writer… Or a Werewolf.

October 6, 2011
How to be a W...

When one begins to type the query “How to be a writer” into Google, the search engine’s “Instant” predictive text technology kicks in and options begin to appear. Get to the “w” of writer and the results get pretty odd. “Writer” is saddled between “wedding planner” and “wizard,” both occupations in which it is easier [...]

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How to Use the Cloud as a Writer

October 2, 2011

“Skywriting by Word of Mouth” was a posthumously published book of prose penned by John Lennon that I was gifted a quarter-century ago. It was writing born of an anarchic love of language that sufficed as depth when I was 14 and sometimes still haunts me. Well, at least its title haunts me. When general [...]

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