April, 2015 - Notes in the Margin

Stephen King wins Edgar award for killer thriller Mr Mercedes | Books | The Guardian

Awards & Prizes / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 30, 2015 / Edgar Award, Stephen King

“He represents a plausible evil; it’s impossible not to hear echoes in his story of other troubled young American men who have opened fire in crowded schools or cinemas, as King peels back the layers to understand how a killer like Brady is formed,” said the Observer review of the novel, quoting King’s lines: “The […]

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On Reading

Book Recommendations, Fiction, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Story, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 26, 2015

35 books everyone should read at least once in their lifetime This article arose from a question posed on Reddit: “What is a book that everyone needs to read at least once in their life?” Of the top 35 books listed here from the Reddit responses, I have read the following: Zen and the Art

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Rereading “Caddie Woodlawn” by Carol Ryrie Brink

Fiction, Literary History, Personal, Reading, The Classics Club / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 22, 2015

Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn Original publication date: 1935 rpt. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 eISBN 978–1–4424–6858–0 Part of the charm of rereading, as an adult, books that I read as a child is understanding and appreciating how I must have reacted to the books back then. I didn’t remember much about Caddie Woodlawn

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On Reading

Audiobooks, Book Recommendations, Fiction, Libraries, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 21, 2015 / Gretchen Rubin, imagination, Jenn Worthington, Rocky Mountain Land Library, YA literature

Reading With Imagination Novelist Lily Tuck calls fiction a creative act, “an act of the author’s imagination and likewise, ideally, it should be read with imagination.” Here’s how she hopes people will read her work: In my own writing, I have been accused of (or is it praised for?) being a minimalist, which I suppose

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On Novels and Novelists

Author News, Film, On Novels and Novelists / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 20, 2015 / Alan Cheuse, Harlan Coben, Hulu, Jill McCorkle, Pat Conroy, Ruth Ozeki, Stephen King

Harlan Coben: ’Every successful author still has to treat it as a job’ An informative article on one of my favorite writers of thrillers, Harlan Coben. And a very successful writer he is: He’s written 27 novels, seven of them New York Times No 1 bestsellers. He has 60m books in print in 41 languages,

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April Is National Poetry Month

Et Cetera / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 17, 2015 / American Academy of Poets, National Poetry Month, poems, poetry

National Poetry Month, held every April, is the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. Inspired by the success of Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March), the Academy of American Poets founded National Poetry Month in April 1996. This

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The 2 Lessons I’ve Learned So Far from My Blog Challenge

Personal, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 16, 2015

The first three months are in the books, one-quarter of the year done. I’ve posted reports for each of the first three months with all kinds of numbers. But the most important lessons don’t lie in the statistics. Beyond the numbers, so far I’ve learned two lessons from writing a blog post every day. 1.

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Working on Vertical Writing

Personal, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 15, 2015 / Andre Dubus, essay, Nick Ripatrazone, personal writing, vertical writing

Gestation of Ideas: On Vertical Writing and Living Nick Ripatrazone discusses vertical writing, a concept he learned from writer Andre Dubus’s essay “The Habit of Writing,” which appeared in the anthology On Writing Short Stories, edited by Tom Bailey. Dubus writes that, instead of trying to force stories into being, he gives ideas time to

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Too Many Open Browser Tabs

Author News, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 14, 2015 / Agatha Christie, Alzheimer's, brain, dementia, Iris Murdoch, P. D. James, Ronald Reagan

Whenever I find an interesting article, I leave it open on my browser because I just know it will form the basis of a spectacular blog post. I’ve always done this, but in the past I would finally just close everything and start over again because the web is, after all, an infinite source of

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Psychological Text Analysis

1 Comment / Author News, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature & Psychology, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 12, 2015 / digital humanities, James Pennebaker, John Fletcher, Lewis Theobold, psychological text analysis, Ryan Boyd, Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Plays Reveal His Psychological Signature A hot trend in literary criticism is the use of computers to analyze text, a field known as digital humanities. Recently Ryan Boyd, a graduate researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, and James Pennebaker, the Liberal Arts Regents Centennial Professor of Psychology at the university, conducted one

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