Online auction “Do the Write Thing” brings in $75,000 for Tennessee flood relief
…they were drowning in emails and couldn’t process them all. So much money came in so quickly that PayPal temporarily froze their account before the auction was halfway through. By…
Author Jay McInerney beefs up his high-tech cred with a (sort-of) review of the Apple iPad
April 14, 2010 Early adopters take note, Jay McInerney half-blogs his initial response to Apple’s iPad over at The Daily Beast. Along the way, he opines on Amazon vs. Apple,…
Vanderbilt MFA candidates launch a new literary magazine
…often recognized as literature—music, comics, film, creative nonfiction, oral storytelling, dance, drama, art—alongside the more traditional forms of fiction and poetry.” In addition to poetry by Rickey Laurentiis and Heather…
A Nashville nanny enters a Cheerios contest … and wins a publishing contract
…or possibly ignored, by that rosy glow. Chapter 16: Many aspiring writers believe their lives will be tremendously changed if they ever get a book published. Would you say your…
…(Wags might claim there’s also an irony in the concept of a literary life in Tennessee.) The Internet can be a dispiriting place, where total cranks and nincompoops effortlessly assume…
