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Live Blogging War and Peace: Pierre Bezukhov and Tip-Toeing T. Rex

by Steven Axelrod | Dec 29, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of blog posts by Steven Axelrod, a writer reflecting on Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace, a monumental journey of a novel that he has embarked on completing this winter. Sarah Hughes wound up...

Live Blogging War and Peace: Housekeeping

by Steven Axelrod | Dec 22, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of blog posts by Steven Axelrod, a writer reflecting on Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace, a monumental journey of a novel that he has embarked on completing this winter. A friend of mine complained...

Live Blogging War and Peace: Leo and Jane

by Steven Axelrod | Dec 16, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest

Starting a classic novel in translation is like arriving in a foreign city. You look for familiar sights: street signs, even if they’re written in a language or an alphabet you can’t decipher; streets, even if they twist out of sight, cars parked along the curb even...

Live Blogging War and Peace: Leo and I

by Steven Axelrod | Dec 8, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest

I have always had a problem with the classics. I find them remote and forbidding. Dauntingly verbose, armored with generations of academic exegisis, their aura of difficulty and virtue sealed under a yellowing veneer of remote time periods and foreign cultures, they...

Notes on the Rule of Three

by Tommy Zurhellen | Nov 19, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest, Writing

I. Conflict Writers are taught there is magic in the number three: your play needs three acts, your joke needs two priests and a rabbi, and your storybook needs Three Little Pigs to be complete. If that book was called The Forty-Seven Little Pigs, I guess there...

An Autointerview with Lee Klein, Author of ‘The Shimmering Go-Between’

by Lee Klein | Nov 18, 2014 | Interviews, Of Literary Interest

Editor’s Note: Atticus Books publisher Dan Cafaro recently contacted novelist Lee Klein in search of content for the Atticus website. He asked Lee if he would be interested in delivering a free-form self-interview, with a creative nod to The Nervous Breakdown,...
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