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Jon Frankel on Writing Novels in an Hour and a Half a DayDecember 13, 2010 When I lived in Ithaca, NY, I became friends with a writer named Jon Frankel. A deeply, darkly funny guy who equally loved Phillip K. Dick and John Donne. Neither of us had attended college and we were dedicated to learning and reading outside of the institution. Like me he was trying to be (more…) Happy Thanksgiving Clint SwankNovember 16, 2010 
Clint Swank
Before and during the times when I was working as a reporter upstate I worked as a bartender in a town that had no traffic light and a population of 1,800. The bar had a kind of derelict hominess, was frequented by old time musicians, Viet Nam Vets, families with young children, professors and a surprising number of know-it-all drop outs, rural hipsters, and the under-employed. (more…) |
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