An article I loved on authors and how they write, courtesy of Maud Newton. I’m a Junot Diaz – what are you?
Two-Legged Animal
Meet Jordan.
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I’m on Twitter!
- Stolen tweet (from whom, don't remember): Lady Gaga done by... not-Lady Gaga: http://olivereader.com/perennial/article/we_love_lady_gaga/ 1 day ago
- @bookstorm Benjamin Black doesn't count - go get The Sea. 1 day ago
- My recently-purchased books: http://elitist.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/recent-acquisitions/ 1 day ago
- Liking @colsonwhitehead 's ShThFuUpAnWoOnYrNo (Shut the fuck up and work on your novel). Suppose that's the difference. 2 days ago
- Best comic book covers & more: links: http://tinyurl.com/ydfdx6a 2 days ago
- REFRESH, REFRESH: Danica Novgorodoff - 3 sons of military fathers: http://tinyurl.com/y9c8r3u 3 days ago
- Okay, even *I* have to tweet about Jeff Hardy on TNA. WTF? 3 days ago
- @goodreads Counting graphic novels, well over the 135 I came up with: http://tinyurl.com/ygoqtl5 3 days ago
- Betrayed (HON Bk 2) by PC & Kristin Cast: http://tinyurl.com/y8hs8tv 3 days ago
- Jennifer's Body not so hot as graphic novel-Frank Cho, very hot: http://tinyurl.com/yh4ttjn 4 days ago
The books I've read.
My wish list.
The litblogs.
- 1morechapter.
- A Devoted Reader.
- A Garden Carried in the Pocket.
- A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore…
- A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook.
- A High and Hidden Place.
- A Life in Books.
- A Reader’s Journal.
- A Striped Armchair.
- A Work in Progress.
- Andy Wolverton
- Asylum
- Bibliophilia.
- Book Ninja
- Book Slut
- Book Square
- Book World.
- Bookfraud.
- Bookgirl’s Nightstand.
- Bookmark My Heart.
- Bookpuddle.
- Books. Lists. Life.
- BooksPlease.
- BookStorm.
- Box of Books.
- Breaking the Spine.
- Contemporary Literature.
- Conversational Reading.
- Critical mass.
- Diaphanous.
- Dog Ear Diary.
- Ex Libris.
- How Fucking Romantic.
- Just One More Page…
- Kate’s Book Blog.
- Largehearted Boy.
- Leafing Through Life.
- Moonlight Ambulette.
- Multiversity Comics.
- Pages Turned.
- Reading is Breathing.
- Reading Matters.
- Ready Steady Book.
- Robot Books.
- Sassymonkey Reads
- See Scott Write.
- She Is Too Fond of Books.
- Shelly’s Book Shelf.
- Slaves of Golconda.
- So Many Books.
- Stop, Drop & Read.
- Tales from the Reading Room.
- Telecommuter Talk
- The Millions.
- The Reading Experience.
- The Writer’s Life.
- Today in Literature.
- Under The BIG blue Sky
- Will Write For Chocolate.
What I read: 2006.
- 100 STROKES OF THE BRUSH BEFORE BED: Melissa P.
- A DEATH IN THE FAMILY: James Agee
- A MOVEABLE FEAST: Ernest Hemingway
- AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: Agatha Christie.
- ANOTHER DAY AT THE FRONT: Ishmael Reed.
- BEASTS: Joyce Carol Oates.
- BOOTY: GIRL PIRATES ON THE HIGH SEAS
- BREAKUP: Catherine Texier.
- CAT’S CRADLE: Kurt Vonnegut
- DOUBLE INDEMNITY: James M. Cain.
- DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD: Zora Neale Hurston
- EVERYMAN: Philip Roth.
- FEAR OF FLYING: Erica Jong.
- FLAPPER: Joshua Zeitz.
- GIOVANNI’S ROOM: James Baldwin.
- HEY, JOE: Ben Neihart.
- HIGH FIDELITY: Nick Hornby
- HOUSE OF LEAVES: Mark Z. Danielewski.
- I HAVE A DREAM: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM: William Faulkner.
- J.B.: Archibald MacLeish
- JOURNAL: THE SHORT AND MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF AMY ZOE MASON: Kristine Atkinson, Joyce Atkinson.
- JUSTINE: Marquis de Sade.
- L’AMERICA: Martha McPhee.
- LADY SUSAN: Jane Austen.
- LATE WIFE: Claudia Emerson
- LEAVES OF GRASS: Walt Whitman
- LITERARY LIVES: Edward Sorel.
- LOLITA: Vladimir Nabokov.
- MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: Nathan McCall.
- MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES: Gabriel García Marquez
- MONSTER: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN L.A. GANG MEMER: Sanyika Shakur.
- MORAL DISORDER: Margaret Atwood.
- MRS. DALLOWAY: Virginia Woolf.
- MY CHAOS THEORY: Steve Watkins.
- MY SISTER’S KEEPER: Jodi Picoult.
- NATIVE SON: Richard Wright.
- NEVER LET ME GO: Kazuo Ishiguro
- PARTY MONSTER: James St. James.
- POSSESSION: A.S. Byatt.
- PROZAC NATION: Elizabeth Wurtzel.
- SCAR TISSUE: Anthony Kiedis.
- SPEAK, MEMORY: Vladimir Nabokov
- THE ACCIDENTAL: Ali Smith.
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X: Malcolm X, Alex Haley.
- THE AUTOGRAPH MAN: Zadie Smith
- THE CAMERA MY MOTHER GAVE ME: Susana Kaysen.
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: JD Salinger.
- THE CRYING OF LOT 49: Thomas Pynchon.
- THE END OF ALICE: A.M. Homes.
- THE GREAT GATSBY: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS: J.T. LeRoy
- THE PURE AND THE IMPURE: Colette.
- THE PUTTERMESSER PAPERS: Cynthia Ozick.
- THE RULES OF ATTRACTION: Bret Easton Ellis
- THE SCENT OF YOUR BREATH: Melissa P.
- THE SHAWL: Cynthia Ozick.
- THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK: W.E.B. DuBois.
- THE SOUND AND THE FURY: William Faulkner.
- THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: Milan Kundera.
- THE WOMAN WARRIOR: Maxine Hong Kingston.
- THIS SIDE OF PARADISE: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- THOMAS AND BEULAH: Rita Dove.
- TRACKS: Louise Erdrich.
- TROPIC OF CANCER: Henry Miller
- WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Emily Bronte.
What I read: 2007.
- Alegría, Claribel: LUISA IN REALITYLAND.
- Alighieri, Dante: INFERNO.
- Allende, Isabel: SHORT STORIES BY LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN.
- ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM.
- Banville, John: THE SEA.
- Bellow, Saul: HENDERSON THE RAIN KING.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni: THE DECAMERON.
- Coelho, Paulo: ELEVEN MINUTES.
- Copeland, Adam: ADAM COPELAND ON EDGE.
- Dangarembga, Tsitsi: NERVOUS CONDITIONS.
- Faulkner, William: ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
- Faulkner, William: AS I LAY DYING.
- Faulkner, William: IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM.
- Faulkner, William: LIGHT IN AUGUST.
- Foley, Mick: TIETAM BROWN.
- Frye, Susan: ELIZABETH I: THE COMPETITION FOR REPRESENTATION.
- García Marquez, Gabriel: MEMORIAS DE MIS PUTAS TRISTES.
- Heale, Elizabeth: THE FAERIE QUEENE, A READER’S GUIDE.
- Heaney, Seamus: BEOWULF.
- Kerouac, Jack: ON THE ROAD.
- Kyd, Thomas: THE SPANISH TRAGEDY.
- Lee, Harper: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
- Levin, Carole: THE HEART AND STOMACH OF A KING: ELIZABETH I AND THE POLITICS OF SEX AND POWER.
- Lucke, Margaret: SCHAUM’S QUICK GUIDE TO WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES.
- Mamdouh, Alia: NAPHTALENE.
What I read: 2008.
- Colette: CLAUDINE AND ANNIE.
- Colette: CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL.
- Colette: CLAUDINE IN PARIS.
- Colette: CLAUDINE MARRIED.
- Colette: THE VAGABOND.
- Diaz, Junot: THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO.
- Dillard, Annie: THE MAYTREES.
- Dillard, Annie: THE WRITING LIFE.
- Follett, Ken: PILLARS OF THE EARTH.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth: CRANFORD.
- Gibson, William: NEUROMANCER.
- Kowalchik, Claire: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF RUNNING FOR WOMEN.
- Kristeva, Julia: COLETTE.
- Lamott, Anne: BIRD BY BIRD.
- Lukeman, Noah: THE FIRST FIVE PAGES: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO STAYING OUT OF THE REJECTION PILE.
- MABINOGI.
- McSweeney’s: THE MCSWEENEY’S JOKE BOOK OF BOOK JOKES.
- Measom, Christopher: SEX LIBRIS: A BOOK ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW.
- Meyer, Stephanie: TWILIGHT.
- Moore, Alan: THE KILLING JOKE.
- Patchett, Ann: THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS.
- Peterson, Karen E.: WRITE: 10 DAYS TO OVERCOME WRITER’S BLOCK. PERIOD.
- Schnakenberg, Robert: SECRET LIVES OF GREAT AUTHORS.
- Shearn, Amy: HOW FAR IS THE OCEAN FROM HERE.
- Singleton, George: PEP TALKS, WARNINGS & SCREEDS
- Stone, Todd A.: NOVELIST’S BOOTCAMP.
- Thackeray, William Makepeace: VANITY FAIR.
- Tolstoy, Leo: ANNA KARENINA.
- Trollope, Anthony: THE WARDEN.
- Turgenev, Ivan: FIRST LOVE.
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