Me and Sten the notepad cruised to a local coffee shop and ended up in a bar downtown. That’s how we roll it seems. I anchored down a stool. Dark and long, the doors to the alley and street propped open letting a bitter wind blow through like lost hipsters, it felt the right place …
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Daniel Orozco told the class that writing a story was like building a wall and all the words were bricks and you don’t build a wall all at once. It takes shape one brick at a time. Another construction metaphor was used in revision. Kim Barnes talked of remodeling the kitchen when thinking of reworking …
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Just saw Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained. I was excited to see it. The first review I read was Spike Lee’s statement that he wasn’t going to see it because it was an insult to his ancestors. The debate about who as the right to tell a story concerning slavery was in my head …
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