This Sunday, the 26th, Doyle and I will be reading at the HyperText Bookstore in Lowell, MA. 2:00 pm is the time.
Our reading will very likely be the World Premiere of “Gertrude of Wyoming,” a short story that will be published in Altered States of the Union later this summer.
See also: HyperText Bookstore Cafe expands offerings in Lowell’s city center
HyperText Café and Books is located at 107 Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. 01852; 978-677-7191.
A guide to semicolon usage, with illustrations. Some people find semicolons intimidating; this is the post for them. Other people love semicolons not necessarily wisely, but too well; I’m not sure if there is any help for us.
An article on Slate, ranting about the overuse of unnecessary synonyms for “said.” I’ll be over here on the sidelines, waving my pompoms in enthusiastic agreement. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, “said” is all you need, assuming you need a dialogue attribution tag at all.
And Great Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Council has released a digitized collection of Jane Austen’s manuscripts, including drafts and juvenilia. I love living in the internet age, I really do . . . time was, to see something like this, you’d have had to make a trip (in the case of Jane Austen’s MSS, a number of different trips) to visit the material in person.
You, too, can be a patron of the arts and immortalized in prose! The Altered States funding drive is offering 6 opportunities for tuckerization as rewards at the $200 level.
From Altered States of the Union:
The response to the concept behind Altered States has inspired a lot of authors to join in the fun, so we’re proud to announce we’re expanding the book by almost 60%, adding new stories by:
The latest from Jim Macdonald’s series on the election of 1844 (useful reading for those who think that our current election year represents some kind of radical departure from a previous tradition of good taste and gentlepersonly behavior.)
HARK! FROM THE BROAD AND NOBLE WEST.
TUNE— All’s Well.
Hark! from the broad and noble West —
From where the hero’s ashes rest —
The loud and stirring peal rings out—
And comes on every breeze the shout
For Harry Clay,
For Harry Clay,
For Harry Clay,
For gallant Harry Clay !
See them rush from the mountain’s side—
They come from plain and prairie wide! —
From every forest, glade and glen,
The shout goes up again,
“Who goes there! Stranger,
Stand, say the word!”
“Kentuck!”
“Hurrah!”
“All’s Well— All’s well!”
The West,
The East,
All— all’s well!
From wild New England’s mountain’s steep.
On through her valleys green they sweep—
And swelling high his glorious name.
His noble deeds aloft proclaim
For Harry Clay,
For Harry Clay,
For Harry Clay.
For fearless Harry Clay!
From ocean’s surge to mountain rills,
Bright burn the watch fires on the…
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