In my ideal-world fantasy, I imagined that the day after I graduated from Emerson with my MFA in Creative Writing, I would wake up, pick up a pen, and start spouting well-polished prose. In actuality, I went to a job interview at the restaurant where I now work, went out to lunch with my mother, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Summer Reading Month'
Summer Running Month: a search for discipline
June 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: emerson alums · Haruki Murakami · John Bingham · kim · Summer Reading Month · writing habits
Recommended Reading (according to Neil Gaiman and some others)
June 11th, 2009 No Comments
I don’t really like to re-post things from around the internet unless it’s particularly interesting, and I this counts in my opinion, plus it continues our theme of summer reading. Last week, Salon.com asked a bunch of authors what they were reading and what they would recommend. Even though some of the books/subject mentioned don’t [...]
Tags: literary taste · patrick · reading · reading habits · Summer Reading Month · writers · writers' habits
A Tradition in Dominican-American-“UberNerd” Storytelling
June 8th, 2009 No Comments
Imagine that Gabriel Garcia Marquez grew up Dominican in modern-day Paterson, New Jersey, and wrote a conversational account of a man’s life true to those colloquial roots. If you can do that, you might have an idea of what to expect from Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Based [...]
Tags: Book Reviews · Chris · junot diaz · Pulitzer · Summer Reading Month · The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
If you’re already sitting down…
June 5th, 2009 No Comments
While Vernacular has already launched our Summer Reading Month, I wanted to let everyone know that June is also National Bathroom Reading Month!
Celebrate by spending your next #2 reading the #1 bathroom book, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader . It’s a compendium of useful knowledge and fun facts, and it’ll make your bathroom as edifying as [...]
Tags: reading habits · Summer Reading Month
The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
June 4th, 2009 No Comments
Perhaps I’m just spending too much time in workshops, these days, but I find that my reaction to a lot of books, lately, is: It’s good, but the author needs a better editor.
I suppose it’s a bit of a ridiculous complaint to have, because usually the author in question has their book with Holt, or [...]
Tags: Andrew · Book Reviews · reading habits · Summer Reading Month
Announcing Summer Reading Month!
June 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Hey folks, happy June! For us in Boston, this means only *some* 40-degree rainy days, and that the primary core of our bloggers– Emerson grad students in the Creative Writing and Publishing programs– are on summer vacation. Which means, for us lit nerds: yes, more time to read!!
So stay tuned this month, when our bloggers [...]
Tags: author readings · Book Reviews · Infinite Jest · kim · Les Miserables · Summer Reading Month