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		<title>Memo to the Lighthouse Fundraising Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new strategy is this: channel our inner Christian Wiman (inspiration for this diatribe a couple years back by yours truly), who wrote such a moving letter for Poetry&#8217;s &#8220;subscribe now&#8221; campaign that I nearly choked on my morning coffee.  &#8220;Dear Reader,&#8221; he wrote: 
These days it can seem that life consists mostly of being overwhelmed by life. The whirlwind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=908&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Hoagland, Unpacking the Writing Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjhenry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This, on a pretty neat blog, &#8220;How a Poem Happens&#8221;: http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/.
By the way, Tony Hoagland is a totally amazing poet.
And, someday, perhaps we&#8217;ll be lucky enough to snag him as a Writer&#8217;s Studio guest?
&#8211;mjh
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		<title>Serious Fun with Lorrie Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only been to three of the six Lighthouse Writer&#8217;s Studio events, but I think I can safely say that last weekend&#8217;s guest, Lorrie Moore, had the shiniest hair of any of them, and the most melodic voice.  I know: I sound like Lenny from Of Mice and Men, but something about Moore&#8217;s thoughtfulness and good humor has me a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=866&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Been to Oprah&#8217;s Web Site and Have Lived to Tell the Tale&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjhenry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Oprah&#8217;s site, there&#8217;s a great essay on writing and stubbornness from Junot Diaz.
I remember reading his short story collection Drown years ago, and learning that he got a huge book deal to write a novel. And then: nothing. Not a word. Nary a peep. Not even some rumorish buzz.
Until I heard that he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=853&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember that song&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Video Killed the Radio Star&#8221;?
 
Well, we&#8217;ve been talking for years about how the Internet, film, and television are hacking away at the already-fragile bindings of the book, and yet a quick glance at the new season of film, it seems that some of the best visual storytellers are still taking their inspiration from books. Perhaps this is as it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=757&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimation by fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreadupree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as Amanda needs a version the Misfit at her writing desk, threatening to make her a &#8220;good writer&#8221; by (metaphorically) shooting her every minute of her life, most writers, if we confess it, are paralyzed for minutes, weeks, months, or years by the question: Does writing matter? It&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t believe in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=822&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write Or Die (Or Be Very Startled)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>area</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many times I&#8217;ve said that I needed a man with a gun to stand behind my desk and keep me writing (also to chase me around the park when I&#8217;m out for a run, as I tend to run for a minute, then walk, then walk more slowly, then lie down in the grass). 
Now someone has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=817&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Reasons to Read War and Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started reading War and Peace, I only had two reasons. The first had to do with superstition.  A few years before, I’d been reading Anna Karenina when I had one of those creative bursts a writer doesn’t fully appreciate until it’s over.  Then, after the muse had retreated, I began to entertain various gambits: combining ginseng and Red Bull; downing cups of strong coffee (with handfuls of antacids); reading books about creativity; ordering illegal brain stimulants on the Internet; and finally, embarking on War and Peace, a book nearly as heavy as my asthmatic cat, at around 1400 pages.  Tolstoy, I’d decided, was my magic feather.

My other reason was less complicated. War and Peace is like the Mount Everest of books.  I wanted to be able to say I’d read it. 

As it turns out, Tolstoy is not my magic feather.  Alas.  But the experience of reading War and Peace is worthwhile, and for more than just the bragging rights:
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		<title>Further evidence of a short storycentric universe?</title>
		<link>http://lighthousedenver.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/further-evidence-of-a-short-storycentric-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreadupree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or at least that reports of the demise of the short story are greatly exaggerated: the National Book Awards are going all democratic in chosing the &#8220;best NBA winner of all time.&#8221; You can vote on the expert-whittled list here, but take note: four of the six choices are story collections.  Which of the six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=804&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poet Heather McHugh Wins a Genius Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjhenry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather McHugh&#8211;a poet I must admit I am not all that familiar with&#8211;just received a MacArthur Fellowship, which, for a poet, is winning PowerBall. The sum total: $500,000. (I wonder what the taxes are on that payout?)
Anyway, listen here for an engaging interview with Ms. McHugh on NPR.
And here&#8217;s a link to her Web site, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthousedenver.wordpress.com&blog=1286806&post=781&subd=lighthousedenver&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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