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Reflections of a working writer and reader

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. Graham Greene

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An open letter to God from Michael Moore

Dear God,

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson’s ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be canceled . . more . .

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Looking to be understood?

Brick Magazine published an interview with the important veteran American writer Thomas McGuane. In answer to a question from Alexandre Thiltges, McGuane had this to say about living in the sticks:
Significant human activity is usually considered to take place where the cultural arbiters and publishers are. But in the long run, you know, I’ve felt [...]

Sailing Away

When we pulled away from the Tyne the sea was already boiling up in what they call a swell. And as the evening drew on and land receded into invisibility the cubism of these shifting planes of water gave way to white-tops and eventually a gale that bumped us along the surface of the ocean.
No [...]

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I’ve been tucked away in a corner of Norway’s tiny Kure Fjord for the last few weeks, but today I’m in the relative civilization of Oslo and taking a quick opportunity to catch up with my blog. Took around two hours to go through the accumulated comments. I didn’t reply to many of the comments [...]

The Lost Generation - Happy Days

With thanks and acknowledgements to Hemingway’s Paris and Jacob Russell’s Barking Dog
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