Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
For all you folks out there who are interested in Jim Macdonald’s other artistic vocation (the one that isn’t writing novels), tomorrow and Saturday he’s going to be doing close-up street magic in Bradford, Vermont, as part of the local downtown merchants’ Customer Appreciation Days. Look for him…
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Where I’ve Been When I Haven’t Been Here
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Working, mostly, clearing my way out from under a couple of editing gigs. Our trip to Albacon went well – it was a pleasant local convention with congenial people – and we were able to make a side trip to Ausable Chasm on the way out. Jim Macdonald…
Sampler Platter
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Some time back, I posted a tasting flight of shorter works by important authors, in the interest of giving readers a way to decide whether or not they liked a particular author enough to go on and tackle one of that author’s signature doorstop volumes. Now, as a…
The Secret Pulse: National Poetry Month
Originally posted on FRAN WILDE:
Antoni Austen, Low Tide After a Storm, 1892, Salon des Champs-Elysées 1892 “We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin’s regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all,…
Three Nifty Links and a Brief Reminder
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Commas are important tools in the ongoing struggle for (and sometimes between) clarity and euphony – so important that it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that, even more than most punctuation marks, commas are pretty much a local-option kind of deal. The conventions for comma usage…
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