Category: writing

Dead Authors Podcast; First and Final

H.G. Wells uses his time machine to bring famous authors to Los Angeles for an interview.

The premise: H.G. Wells uses his time machine to bring famous authors to Los Angeles for an interview.

The first guests were Henry Miller (Eddie Pepitone) and Sylvia Plath (Jen Kirkman) and the final in the series was L. Frank Baum (Chris Tallman).

Available on all podcast services or direct download: Chapter_50_-_L._Frank_Baum.mp3 from the Dead Authors website.

Direct download: Preface_-_Sylvia_Plath__Henry_Miller.mp3

They’ve come a long way. The DAP might return as a paid podcast, at some point. All profits go to the 826LA literacy program.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

For more information on 826: http://826national.org/chapters/

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The Sunday Routine: How Walt Maguire, Forensic Puppeteer, Spends His Sundays

I’m usually up by six, then back to bed by seven, then up by seven-thirty. Sunday mornings I like to sleep in until nine.

How Walt Maguire, Forensic Puppeteer, Spends His Sundays

by
Walt Maguire

JUNE 29, 2015

I’m usually up by six, then back to bed by seven, then up by seven-thirty. Sunday mornings I like to sleep in until nine.

Read the full piece at Splitsider.com — except you can’t, because Vulture bought Splitsider.com in August 2018 and shut down the Humor section.

Find it here

“Waiting Room Fairies” by Kimberly Emilia

I’m on the fiction board of Philadelphia Stories, a quarterly, and every once in a while a story comes in that I just really like. No offense to any of the other writers out there — I like the other material too, and I’ll mention those in the future.

“Waiting Room Fairies” is one of those stories where there isn’t a lot of explicit plot, or even character development, but the descriptions and details give you everything you need to finish the story in your mind. The restraint is powerful and almost musical in the way it describes a moment and projects a fuller story past the end of the page.  You can read in the Summer 2014 issue of Philadelphia Stories or on their website.