Tag: Books
Tatjana Soli’s debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, was a New York Times bestseller, 2010 New York Times Notable Book and LA Times Book Award Finalist. Set in the final days of the Vietnam War, The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of the war.
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Posted: September 9th, 2011 under Art Zine, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: Book Lust, Books, Nancy Pearl
Before author Richard LeMieux became homeless, he was a successful journalist and publisher. LeMieux was Sports Director of WCOM Radio and a sportswriter for 17 years at the Springfield Sun newspaper in Ohio. In 1981, LeMieux moved to Washington State where he ran his own publishing company, producing medical directories and university
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Posted: August 19th, 2011 under Art Zine, City Issues, Housing and Human Services, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Books
This week, two of our SEATTLE CHANNEL hosts, Art Zone's Nancy Guppy and Book Lust's Nancy Pearl, received much deserved recognition for their excellence! First, City Arts' put Ms. Guppy on their list of Seattle's top Culture Makers, writing "A passionate art lover who has been performing since the mid-’80s, Guppy now
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Posted: January 7th, 2011 under Art Zine, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: Art Zone, Book Lust, Books, Nancy Guppy
In the latest episode of Book Lust, America's favorite librarian Nancy Pearl interviews National Book Award winner Charles Johnson. He is author of 16 books--novels, short-story collections, literary criticism and philosphy. Johnson received the 1990 National Book Award (fiction) for the novel, Middle Passage. In 1998, he received a John D. and Catherine T.
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Posted: November 10th, 2010 under Art Zine, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: Book Lust, Books, Nancy Pearl
On Saturday, September 4, 5:00 p.m., SEATTLE CHANNEL, Cable 21, Eric Volz tells how he was sentenced to a 30-year prison term in Nicaragua for a murder he didn't commit. In 2004, Volz moved to Nicaragua and launched EP Magazine, a successful, bi-lingual publication focusing on conscious living, cross-cultural understanding and sustainable
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Posted: September 3rd, 2010 under Literary, Public Safety, Take 21.
Tags: Books
I am cutting and pasting again. I mean, with real scissors and paper. I was writing a story that started with a single, clear through-line, but by the time I had generated 15 pages it had become a mass of pages with, um, not so many paragraph breaks...
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Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Art Zine, Literary, Take 21.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush
If you're a minority--ethnic, ability-wise, sexual--the workplace is your daily battlefield. Maybe you win that battle every day through sheer force of personality and charm--or because you're the boss! Regardless of your position, it's likely that you encounter what academics call "microinsults" and "microaggressions" regularly.
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Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Literary.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush, Nancy Guppy, Phyllis Fletcher
Writers sometimes get upset when too many people ask them where their stories come from, or where they "get" their stories. I understand that -- writers don't want amateurs fooling around in their chem labs. But the answers are almost always interesting anyway, even when they are, "I was daydreaming out the airplane window," or "This guy moved his hands the way my uncle did, which reminded me of Oedipus."
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Posted: April 10th, 2009 under Literary.
Tags: Books, Lyall Bush
