Personally, I did not read Fifty Shades of Grey (nor do I intend to), but I was delighted to hear the hilarious lowdown from Ron Charles, a book critic for The Washington Post. After Publisher’s Weekly announced author EL James won 2011 Publishing Person of the Year, Charles put together his take on the je ne sais quoi that made the British writer so noteworthy.
Thanks to Poets & Writers for sharing this.
I wrote an article for our local weekly paper!
Here it is: proof that I can spend 20 hours on something that takes five seconds to read.
The piece is about a Charlottesville non-profit that installs sculptures all over town. It was really fun to learn more about it, and especially fun to drink sparkling apple juice with the yogis who coronated their friend’s work. Three cheers for the arts and local editors who trust a stranger when she claims to know how to write.
I love the sound of my own voice, and since the sages say to do what you love, I’m getting in front of a microphone again.
If you’re looking for a wordy way to spend $5 on Sunday, come to the Bridge at 7PM. The lovely ladies of Scheherazade, a storytelling series, organized an open reading where, to quote the group’s PR blurb:
artists in different genres present original, 10 minute works to an audience. September’s theme is “Soundtracks”: hi-fi/lo-fi, screeching, skreeling stories of lyrical pleasure and pain; heartbreaking tales that make you want to sing along.
This month’s theme is a nod to Audio September, a month of sound-inspired artworks including radio, poetry, music and installation art.
Check out the Bridge PAI website to see the entire line-up. Or if you’re free on Sunday swing by–I know it’ll be excellent, if only because other people probably finished their pieces already.
Cue my exit music. (Hint: it sounds like this.) Happy weekend everybody!
As a novelist, I learned long ago that my interest in talking about how very difficult it is to write fiction exceeds almost everybody’s interest in hearing about it. I rarely bring the subject up, any more than I expect, in old age, to go on at length about my joint pains or the fact that everything and everyone used to be better than they are now. Every writer I know, however, is obsessed by the subject, and often when we’re alone together we do, in fact, with a sense of guilty abandon, spend a certain amount of time buzzing about how unbelievably, monumentally difficult writing actually is; what fools we are for having taken it up in the first place; and how often we contemplate abandoning the pursuit altogether and going into another line of work, though most of us are too old for go-go dancing and too inept for carpentry.
To learn more about the writing underground or revel in how justified your whining is, click here. Happy reading!
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