“Lost” Gruber review…

Before Q Blog, I had a website, which vanished. I regretted the loss of only one piece, an essay and review of a work by Michael Gruber. Recently, reading him at his excellent website (link above) and commenting on him, I found a printed copy, which I will print here. Not only does it point …

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Quote

“In Britain, an editor will permit a writer to make an allusion if he, the editor, understands it. In America, an editor might well understand it but he will want it taken out, for fear the readers won’t”.– Clive James in the Atlantic ???

Pluvialis Sighting

Reports on Helen’s work in progress– here and here. A quote from the first: ” I’m busy writing that book. The one about grief and goshawks and death and love and landscape and home and, well. All the things.” And from the second: “It is the story of a journey into wildness with a creature …

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Road Classics

Thesis: the three great American “Road” books are Lolita; On the Road; and one you may not know, Roger Tory Peterson’s Wild America. Nabokov and Peterson came out in 1955, like my favorite Chevy, my parent’s second car and the first they bought new that I can remember; as far as I know, Kerouac finished …

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More Michael Gruber

… who just seems to have a lot to say about the writer’s life these days. A recent one, “Advantages of selling ceiling tile over being a writer” is irresistible. Read it all, but I can’t resist sampling: “2. It is unlikely that you will have the urge to sell ceiling tile in a bar …

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Michael Gruber

Michael Gruber, our most original so- called “Thriller” writer, has a new blog up on writing and other matters of interest to Q- Philes. Gruber is nothing less than remarkable as a person & author. After a long history of ghost- writing, he emerged from obscurity with Tropic of Night, which is set in Miami …

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Quote on Writing

From Michael Gruber: “You may wonder, why research at all? It’s fiction, why not make it all up? The reason is that almost all readers have some expertise or experience, and will be irritated beyond reason by boners that they detect, and when they detect them, the bodyguard of truth will be penetrated and they …

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DONE!

.. and going mushroom hunting. Yesterday at around 11 PM Libby finished the last book cover scan for the book of one hundred books; by midnight I had them back on the shelves. After almost two years of writing two books to deadline– what next? Well, start to write a couple more I suspect. But …

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Constant Apprentice

My dear friends Roseann and Jonathan Hanson, writers, scholars, adventurers, Arizonans, Africanists, connoisseurs of the good life, have (re)started a blog, The Constant Apprentice. I have the highest expectations. Here are a few images of them from my own files… I will let them explain the saber toothed skunk puppet…

SIlk Road redux

From Dmitry Kosyrev, author of the Silk Road Trilogy, via Kickstarter: “My dear friends, Americans, a few Russians from Russia, all 111 of you, plus many more who will read my novels after their successful funding: “What you did in suport of my books, letting them be published in USA, means that somebody needs the …

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