January 2011
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“The moon is God’s silver face that only comes on special occasions.”
–  from the novel “Room,” by Emma Donoghue
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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“I believe in walls. That we need them. I believe in open spaces, that we need...”
–  from the poem “Horses,” by Arkaye Kierulf
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Crazy Weather →
And this is what people get for consistent disregard: consistent catastrophes. “Forty years from now, the crazy weather of 2010 will seem pretty tame… This year’s wild ride was just the beginning.”
Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Call for Submission of Manuscripts to the 50th...
  The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is now accepting applications for the 50th National Writers Workshop to be held on May 2-20, 2011 in the SU Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village. This Writers Workshop is offering fifteen fellowships to promising young writers who would like a chance to hone their craft and refine their style. Fellows will be provided housing, a modest stipend,...
Jan 11th
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“No story ever ends, any arc is an illusion. Ultimately, all we have is language,...”
–  from a book review of “Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories” by Barry Hannah
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Long Shots or Shooting the Moon?
Yes, it is already the second week of the new year but it is never too late to extend my list of resolutions. Though sometimes better read than done, I think I have created to-do’s that I could pull off (hopefully). Besides, I managed to complete one resolution last year (which is the last bullet in this list) until I unknowingly took a cocktail drink with Sprite in the mix in the last few days of...
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Announcing Her Existence →
Now I’ve got to start reading Eugenides’ Middlesex before pouncing on this.
Jan 9th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Under the Light of this Year
The 2000’s is quite an interesting decade for me. Imagine, in a span of ten years, you graduated in high school, felt the diversity of emotional pangs in college, fortunately graduating just in time even with the excess baggage, and plunged into the country’s workforce of which everything you had learned in the previous years were but a small fraction of the demands that was in store for you....
Jan 3rd
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“Startling is OK—provided it’s not so startling that the reader dumps the book in...”
–  David Mitchell
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Jan 2nd
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