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“A Day at the Office”: authors Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan & Peter Mountford
Cheryl Tan and I worked together nearly fifteen years ago at the Baltimore Sun. She’s since worked as a fashion writer at the Wall Street Journal and recently published her first book, A Tiger in the Kitchen. During her recent … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Journalism, Newspapers, seattle, Writing
Tagged Author, Authors, Books, cheryl tan, coffee, Journalism, peter mountford, Writers, Writing, yaddo
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Tribute to legendary ski film director Warren Miller
*UPDATE (June 7): This event has been postponed due to a scheduling glitch. It is going to be rescheduled for some time in the fall. I’ll keep you posted. This Wednesday at 7pm, I’ll be on stage at Seattle’s Benaroya … Continue reading
Posted in seattle, Writing
Tagged Arts, Author, Books, film, Neal Thompson, seattle, siff, skiing, Sports Illustrated, warren miller, Writing
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‘Light This Candle’ autographed book giveaway
Today (as I’ve been reminding anyone on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, or Tumblr who’ll listen) is the 50th anniversary of the day Alan Shepard became America’s first spaceman. In commemoration of that event – which provided the title of my 2004 … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Light This Candle, space
Tagged Alan Shepard, Author, bbc, Books, c-span, huffington post, Moon, NASA, Neal Thompson, Space, usa today
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Review: A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism
A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford My rating: 4 of 5 stars In one chapter of my forthcoming biography of Robert Ripley, I recount the eccentric, world-traveling “Believe It or Not” cartoonist’s months-long journey through South … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Bolivia, Books, Grand Canyon, Hedge fund, La Paz, Late Capitalism, New York, richard hugo house, Robert Ripley, seattle, South America, Writers, Writing
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My interview with author Karen Abbott
I’d briefly met Karen a few years ago in Asheville, NC, during her tour for her first book, Sin in the Second City. She visited Seattle last month to talk at Elliott Bay Book Co. about her new book, American Rose, … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Authors, Books, burlesque, Gypsy Rose Lee, karen abbott, seattle, Writers, Writing
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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
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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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