Blog for the forthcoming novel Entertaining Welsey Shaw by John Grabowski.
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I hear this a lot. Often someone, when they hear I am writing a novel, say something like, “A novel. Wow. That’s great.” This is unfortunately followed by, “I haven’t read a novel in [insert large number] years.” I wonder if they realize how their saying that is l
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In 1851 a novel by an obscure American made its quiet debut. It did not turn out to be a best-seller. Exactly 40 years later, after the death of its author, the New York Times stated, “There has died and been buried in this city, during the current week…a man who is so little-known even
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Welsey Shaw has never won an Academy Award. The consensus is she’s too young (27) for one. She has won just about every other honor out there. I even had a mention of a trophy shelf in her apartment with a stand in the center marked by the words “reserved for future Oscar.” But I [
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UPDATE: Apparently most people didn’t like Person To Person 2.0. The show landed CBS firmly in third place, and got tepid reviews. CBS revived its legendary program Person to Person last night, and I was curious to see if they could pull it off. The short answer is no. Person to Person, for th
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I saw this picture recently and started wondering, as I always do when I see pictures like this: who has/had it better? Here’s Earnest Hemingway and friends, sitting in a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, where the bulls run. This was around the time he was writing The Sun Also Rises. This is every mod
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I hate this question. And everybody asks it. “What’s your novel about?” I hate it because I don’t know how to answer it. They don’t know it, but what they really mean is, “What’s the plot?” They also, without necessarily realizing it consciously, mean,
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Because the writer can’t imagine anything as concretely as the person who is going to get up on stage—it’s going to be their voice, their body, their rhythms of speech, of breathing, of moving—the particular quality of their concentration. —Deborah Eisenberg I know my novel isn’t even publishe
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Everyone has a list of actors they think is underrated. These people do terrific work on film after film after film yet never seem to get the acclaim and attention of the biggest stars. Sometimes this is how they want it. Not everyone wants the red carpet and the paps and the press. And unfortunatel
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