Ode to Pork, continued

Kevin Young, author of Ode to Pork, has a great website!

http://kevinyoungpoetry.com/home.html

Where has he been all my life? I have read some of his poems here and there, but had no idea of the huge body of work he has written. He's prolific!

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, came out this year.

Previous books include:

The Art of Losing, 2010

Dear Darkness, 2008

For the Confederate Dead, 2007

Black Maria, 2005

Jelly Roll, 2003

To Repel Ghosts, 2005

And other books. He's won numerous prestigious awards. The titles of his books are so great, I can only imagine the wonders to await us in his poems. Kevin, if you are reading this, I love you! Call me!

BOOK REVIEWS IN HAIKU?!

Okay, here's a challenge. How to write book reviews in Haiku? Three lines, with 5/7/5 syllables in length.

http://37days.typepad.com/haikubookreviews/2005/05/teaching_with_y.html

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut - Donald L. Finkel

Teaching or learning?   
Don't just Tell your students things,
help them discover.

By Patti Digh

Subversive Children's Books

The Today show did a segment on subversive children's books. Some that made the list:
Where the Wild Things Are
Harriet the Spy (one of my favorites)
The Story of Ferdinand
Yertle the Turtle (Dr. Seuss)
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type (no, this is not my memoir) :-)

What children's book would you add to the subversive list?

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40099066/ns/today-books/

BLOOD, BONES, AND BUTTER

I adore the title of this memoir. It reminds me of a time in my life when I cooked for a living. Why do these brilliant people keep stealing the thoughts right out of my head?

By the way, cooking is dirty, backbreaking, hot, dangerous, repetitive, and allows no time for sleep. Just shoot me if you hear me talking about opening a restaurant.

who'd a thunk it? OMG is now in Oxford English Dictionary

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/dictionary-texting-omg-lol.html

Amanda Hocking interview

You must read this interview about 26 year-old wunderkind Amanda! Let's self-publish!




 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestselling-ind_b_804685.html

The Paris Wife

I’m reading The Paris Wife by Paula McClain. It’s a historical novel based on the life of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, who were married from 1921-1927.

Also, I just read an interesting article about cursing. Where do you stand on this issue as regards your own writing?

Jon Pareles, New York Times, “From Cee Lo Green to Pink, Speaking the Unspeakable”

March 15, 2011,

"Deploying the f-bomb also defuses it; give or take a few copycats in the months to come, it’s going to sound about as potent as a popgun."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/music/from-cee-lo-green-to-pink-speaking-the-unspeakable.html