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Clevenger Essay: The Devil in the Details |
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Mar 03, 2010 - 9:51 PM - by Flash
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Fellow scribes, now live over at The Cult: The Official Chuck Palahniuk Website, Craig Clevenger drops some knowledge on you with his essay, "The Devil in the Details." Some of this material forms the basis of his acclaimed workshop intensives, and will have you sharpening your prose faster than you can say "heretical dermaphoric contortionist."
Topics covered include showing versus telling, "slot machine memory," and creating depth through conflict/contrast and active subject-verb descriptions.
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It Came from Del Rio |
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Mar 02, 2010 - 7:10 PM - by StephenG.Jones
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wanted to say it here first: my IT CAME FROM DEL RIO's now coming out with Trapdoor Books. Very excited. Trapdoor's very cool.
and, as for what DEL RIO is: kind of the story of a reconciliation between a long-absent father and his daughter, as complicated by that father now being a zombie with a bunny head. or, I should have started that off with "the classic story of a . . ."
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Review: The Abyss of Human Illusion by Gilbert Sorrentino |
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Feb 21, 2010 - 5:53 PM - by JesseLawrence
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Sometimes, usually in regards to artistic endeavors, people talk of the human condition. Honestly, I've never understood this. Isn't that just a fancy way of saying something is human? At best, we're a mass of emotions made flesh, and at worst we are deeply flawed, chaotic and messed up. Hmm.
The Abyss of Human Illusion was begun in 2003, with a first draft "mostly complete" in 2005 when Gilbert Sorrentino was diagnosed with cancer. The book was worked on in his final months and referred to, by himself, as "my last book." It was finished a few weeks before his death in May 2006.
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Everything Is Gonna Be Fine |
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Feb 09, 2010 - 11:33 AM - by Logan_Frost
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But currently the domain registration is set to run out soon. And by soon, I mean Thursday.
Right now I don't have it. I never had the domain name, Chris does/did, so if he doesn't have an auto-renewal set up, we may go down briefly.
I'm going to be around on Thursday, so I'll be watching to see if that happens. If it does, I'll hop on and register it ASAP.
If the absolute worst comes to pass and some squatter bitch grabs it, don't worry. The hosting is mine. So all of the user info and all of the threads are on my hosting, and backed up on my external drive. We won't lose any data from this.
Worst outcome is we may just be having to switch to .net instead of .com. But since .net has never been bought up, I don't see any squatter wanting to jump on .com.
Once I have the registration (if it comes to that), there's a likelihood it may take some time for (techie bullshit here) to happen. I highly recommend anyone who wants to keep updated on that to join up and keep an eye on our Facebook page.
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