April 19th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
Premise:
There is entirely too much detail and description in prose; much more than in life. When you walk in and out of a room in life you remember only a very small collection of things. Usually by the time you leave a room you are trying to remember something that happened in the previous room.
Moving [...]
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March 6th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
What follows is a letter I wrote to a friend about what art means to me in a changing world and why to pursue it even when there is no sustainable future in it:
I’m probably the last guy to ask for advice. I don’t see the glass as half empty or half full. I see [...]
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February 11th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
In Book Two of the Tales of Dunham series, Moriah Jovan confirms that she intends to stay just enough out of genre to confuse everyone. Having read both books, I would call them either (Insert your qualifier here)-Romance Novels or Mormon Bodice Rippers.
The good news for a manly man like me is that the book [...]
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February 10th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
Neither an English major nor a reader of Joyce Carol Oates and not having spent a day at a writers’ workshop in Iowa, would someone please explain to me why the modest adverb is anathema to the educated class.
I ask this humbly.
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January 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
A very smart computer programmer tries to write the formula for love, in my first book, Do the Math: a novel of the inevitable. He’s working on an ancient piece of IBM iron in the basement of a freezing college campus building. Yet despite the many yards of green bar paper that the machine spews [...]
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