This one rambles, but it’s an exercise and it’s rough, so bear with me. I used to read books. I mean on paper, pages made of wood pulp pressed flat in huge machines, cut and stitched or glued together and then cut again, printed with ink and bound in cardstock covers. When I turned theContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: family history”
Author Archives: Samuel Snoek-Brown
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New publication
Remember when I was sitting in at Ryan Werner’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit project? Well, as of today, one of the stories from those sessions appears in issue 24 of the excellent Jersey Devil Press. The story is “Colony.” And I’m super-psyched, because JDP is awesome. You can also download a .pdf ofContinue reading “New publication”
A Writer’s Notebook: tarot story
Last week, riffing off a clip of The Daily Show, I wrote short bit about how cool it would be to do live “writings,” like a reading in a bookstore or a library but instead of reading existing work, we’d write something new, live, on the fly, according to ideas tossed at us from an audience. And then,Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: tarot story”
Steve Jobs supports the humanities and liberal arts
About ten months ago, I came across an article about Peter Thiel, the college drop-out turned tech mogul, and his grand plan to pay college students to quit school. It set me railing against Thiel’s shortsightedness and ignorance, an irritation that stayed with me so strongly that I wound up referencing it again this past March,Continue reading “Steve Jobs supports the humanities and liberal arts”
New poetry from Michael Levan
My friend Michael Levan has been this week’s featured poet at Atticus Review (quite appropriate, since his son’s name is Atticus). His week is coming to an end, but take a moment to head over to Atticus Review and check out Michael’s poem “To My Wife Exiting the Church and Looking Forward to Our NewContinue reading “New poetry from Michael Levan”
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“Wild at heart.” Stone cottage with graffiti in Forest Park, Portland, OR, 19 August 2011.
New publication (this one’s big)
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for news of its imminent arrival, but it’s been hard because I’m really excited about this one: issue 3 of Sententia is publishing an excerpt from my Civil War novel Hagridden (which long-time readers might remember from NaNoWriMo 2009). Today I got news that the issueContinue reading “New publication (this one’s big)”
A Permanent Relationship With Words: Literary Tattoos (via Amanda Rudd’s Blog)
This blog post about literary tattoos is awesome in its own right, but I particularly love it because it links to a site called The Word Made Flesh, which is so cool I’ve added it to my links. Check out both — you’ll love them! This is the first official post for the newly-instated “Free-For-AllContinue reading “A Permanent Relationship With Words: Literary Tattoos (via Amanda Rudd’s Blog)”
A Writer’s Notebook: “This is happening”
This week, I’m going to give you the writing exercise up front, because it was a prompt and, in the “real” world, the audience would know what I was writing toward before-hand: The other day, I posted a clip from The Daily Show in which John Hodgman jokingly suggests authors stage live “writings” in bookstores,Continue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: “This is happening””
Samuel Snoek-Brown 