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May.21.2013
Photo: Book's cover from its Wikipedia page
Almost as quick a read as its predecessor, this one is told from the point of view of Stevie, from his cigarette shop, as he looks back on his past. The cast is all here, and a few more characters show up, including one of the all-time...
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May.06.2013
Photo: Bellevue Hospital Ambulance, New York Times, 1895--from the Wikipedia page of The Alienist.
Been a few weeks away with illness, exhaustion, overwork, and some good headway on my novel and some shorter pieces. Sort of an odd time lately, mostly without focus. I've been...
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Apr.20.2013
Photo: Boston's finest rushing to help an injured runner. This will be SI's cover. From mashable.com.
My thoughts, such as they are, on this week's marathon massacre and the FBI's and Watertown PD's amazing capture of Suspect #2. There'll be another post soon that chronicles my...
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Apr.07.2013
Photo: The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, Manhattan
I realized recently that I have a book-hoarding problem. You know, like those people on the show Hoarders, who have psychotic breaks when a professional therapist, visiting the squalid house, tells them that...
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Apr.02.2013
Photo: Jackie Bradley, Jr., from nbcsports.com
A little self-advertising, if you will. The following is the first entry of a re-booted sports blog, which you can find after this at Steve's Baseball Blog.
So I'm going to give this blog another shot. Hope springs eternal, right? ...
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Mar.30.2013
Photo: Wikipedia page for "Spiderman." From The Amazing Spider-Man #547 (March 2008); Art by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines
A very cool entry about a missing house spider on Michael Seidel's blog amused me to no end, as I thought I was the only one with an odd connection to a...
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Mar.26.2013
Photo: The Golden Gate Bridge, in an aerial view, from the bridge's Wikipedia page. Click it; it's a great pic.
I've been trying to read books lately with a writer's eye, so that I could learn what makes successful (defined here as published; maybe also as respected and/or successful...
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Mar.25.2013
Photo: Book cover of the anthology that contains my recently-sold poem, "An Old Man."
You'll find it in this anthology of "poems of hope throughout the world." This recent write-up says it better:
We are delighted to announce that “Hope Springs A Turtle” is now available to...
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Mar.21.2013
Photo: Bon Jovi, from its Wikipedia page
These are ways that are a little more subtle than, let's say, your hair thinning, or you just plain losing your hair. Neither of these are happening to me, of course.
--You hear yourself constantly comparing yourself, or your...
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Mar.16.2013
Photo: from kirkusreviews.com
Guilt is Kellerman's best book in quite some time. I'd long given up on the author and on the series; things had just gotten too graphic, too gross, too judgmental. In short, Kellerman had gotten lazy, and his prose spoke of too much self-opinion and attitude and not...
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Mar.11.2013
Photo: Norman Rockwell's "Merry Christmas, Grandma!" at addictinginfo.org (Not my kinda site, but it had a good photo of this painting). Is Christmas ever this old-fashioned and homey?
"So Many Reasons to Celebrate the Season," my most recently-purchased story, about how a best-...
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Mar.09.2013
Photo: Cover of the Library of America edition, from this link.
I wrote a blog last year about a very real-to-life and entertaining short story by this guy, here. Please read that one, if you haven't, before you continue on here. I just re-read it myself, since I wrote it last...
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Mar.04.2013
Just a quick note to say that On the Premises (OTP) has purchased my short story, "So Many Reasons to Celebrate the Season" and will publish it in its next issue, #19, online at www.onthepremises.com. I think it's available in .pdf as well. And it's free to read (I think)! It'll be...
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Mar.01.2013
photo: from the film's Wikipedia page
I'm posting this entry quite a bit after I'd seen the film because I wanted to post the entry for Silver Linings Playbook before Sunday's Academy Awards--as at least Jennifer Lawrence should win something from that very good film--and because I wanted...
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Feb.26.2013
photo: The Oscar statuette, or the Academy Award, but actually officially called the Academy Award of Merit, from Oscars.com.
Not too much to say about this award show. I saw most of the nominated films, including:
Prometheus, which I can't believe I never wrote a blog for....
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About Steven
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