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Sipping moonshine with Warren Etheredge
I’m on the other side of the lens for a change in this recent interview with Warren Etheredge, on his cool show “The High Bar.” We sipped two kinds of moonshine I brought along and talked about NASCAR, the South, … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Journalism, NASCAR, Sports, Writing
Tagged Author, Authors, Books, bootleggers, Garth Stein, Journalism, moonshine, NASCAR, seattle, Warren Etheredge, whiskey, Whisky, Writers, Writing
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Paris Review author interviews, now online = gift to writers
In my basement office, among the rows of books about writing, are three well-thumbed volumes of author interviews collected from The Paris Review, whose issues have featured one or two interviews since the magazine’s founding in 1953 (by a group … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Newspapers, Writing
Tagged Arts, Author, Authors, Books, Capote (film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Plimpton, Journalism, New York Times, paper, Paris Review, pen, pencil, Peter Matthiessen, Raymond Carver, Writer, Writers, Writing
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Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, on writing
Image by Getty Images via @daylife When the 74-year-old Peruvian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this week, I checked The Paris Review‘s amazing online trove of archived author interviews and found a 1988 interview in which Llosa talks about … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Author, Authors, Books, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature, Peru, The Paris Review, Writers, Writing
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Archived astro-photos & the visual digitization of history
One of the more enjoyable phases of writing a non-fiction book is reaching the home stretch and compiling photos. I’m not quite at that stage yet in my biography of Robert Ripley. (Although here’s a sampling of pics that’ll likely … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, space, Writing
Tagged Alan Shepard, Astronaut, Author, Authors, Books, NASA, Neal Thompson, Space, Writers, Writing
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Author Gary Shteyngart loves Seattle – and cheese
Shteyngart spoke at Ballard’s Sunset Tavern about his impressive third book, “Super Sad True Love Story.” (His confession: after modest sales of “Absurdistan,” featuring an obese “holy fool” suffering a botched bris, he was proud to get “love story” in the … Continue reading
Bruce Barcott: “If you’re not reading, you’re not writing”
I met Seattle author/freelancer Bruce Barcott in early 2009, following his reading at the Seattle Public Library, where he discussed his most recent book, “The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw.” The story of Belize Zoo director Sharon Matola’s efforts … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Journalism, seattle, Writing
Tagged Author, Authors, Books, Journalism, libraries, Neal Thompson, Pacific Northwest, seattle, Writers, Writing
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Q&A with former Baltimore Sun colleague Laura Lippman
I met Laura years ago when we were both working at The Baltimore Sun. At the time (late 1990s), the Sun was an impressive newspaper, dedicated to the best kind of storytelling. It attracted a diverse squad of talented journalists … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, baltimore sun, Books, david simon, george pelecanos, HBO, laura lippman, New Orleans, Newspapers, the wire, Writers, Writing
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