My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight.—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium
I’ve been doing “bite-size” blackouts to warm up…
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My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight.—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium
I’ve been doing “bite-size” blackouts to warm up…
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We got the galleys (uncorrected proofs) for Newspaper Blackout in the mail today. This time last year I had just finished the manuscript.
To celebrate, here are a few (somewhat grainy) photos. Six poems no one (except for Meg and the HC folks) has ever seen!
Meg and I spent a good bit of the weekend going over the first pass of Newspaper Blackout. “First pass” is the author’s first chance to see the book all typeset and designed and actually looking like it will when it’s printed as a book. It looks really, really great. There are a few changes still, but it’s so incredibly close to being ready.
And still, 24 weeks to pub date…
Plagiarizing Seinfeld…
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