Thursday, October 25, 2012
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon spoke about his childhood in Columbia, its influence on him and the city's changes.
Michael Chabon, who spent his childhood in Columbia, is the best selling-author of novels such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. As a child, Chabon's parents were divorced and he spent nine months of the year living in Columbia with his mother and three months in Pittsburgh with his father. He graduated from Howard High School. For the past two decades Chabon, 49, has lived mostly in California, making his permanent home in Berkeley since 1997, according to his biography on his publicity agency's website. Chabon's latest book, Telegraph Avenue, was published in September. The book took him about five years to write. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Chabon…
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Everyone seems to have a limp.
I hate clichés. It seems as if you can’t pass two articles without passing four well-worn phrases, wearily looking out at you from the page. Clichés are comforting and homey for both writer and reader. A foreign story becomes less so (“Hackgate” for the British phone hacking scandal), a confusing one more understandable (the 1 percent catch phrase). They are cultural shorthand, a shortcut that allows a writer to bring the full weight of truism to bear with a minimum of words. They’re efficient. They’re also lazy. A cliché is like an old couch—broken in and comfy. Why leave its comforts for DIY seating? Taking a build-your-own approach to figurative language might result in something uncomfortable, difficult or even (gasp) challenging, to …
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
An interview with Stacey Kade, author of The Ghost and the Goth.
As soon as I saw Howard County Library's reading list for high schoolers, I did a happy dance. Right at the top was The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade, one of the best books I read in 2010. Nominated by the American Library Association for the Best Fiction for Young Adults award, The Ghost and the Goth is about a girl named Alona who is hit by a bus and turned into a ghost. As she haunts the school, she discovers that the creepy goth kid Will can see her. Shocked and hurt by how quickly her friends move on from her death, she discovers that Will might be her only real friend. Right now in young adult literature, there’s a lot of gloom and doom, lots of dystopias and vampires. I love that stuff, but I equally love a fun story. The …
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Some writers didn't help with the turkey this year. Instead, they picked words over birds.
November is typically about fall, about leftover Halloween candy and the family whirlwind of Thanksgiving. This year, for roughly 200,000 people around the world, November has been about writing. Lots of writing. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants commit to writing 50,000 words (or more) in 30 days. I first heard about NaNoWriMo in October 2009. "Those people are crazy," I said. One week later, I became one of those crazy people, and I finished. This year I'm back for more. The Mission NaNoWriMo is free, funded by donations, grants and sponsor contributions. The Office of Letters and Light, a non-profit, organizes NaNoWriMo and a youth version of the event each year. The rules for NaNoWriMo …
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