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Tag Archives: David Stuart MacLean
Fair Pay
Three things coincided recently. 1) Jana Hunter, the singer for the band Lower Dens, recently wrote about her band’s relationship to streaming music services. 2) Scott Repass, Houston writer and saloon keeper, said in an article in the Houston Chronicle, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Jana Hunter, Lower Dens, Netflix, Nootropics, Redbox, Scott Repass, The Campaign
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Seven Chipmunks Twirling on a Branch: An Interview with Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn is the author of the New York Times #1 Best-Selling novel Gone Girl as well as Sharp Objects and Dark Places. Gillian is a fan of true crime books and a gold mine of popular culture data. She was over at my house … Continue reading
Surrealist Writing Rule with Comic Addendum
In my last couple of years at the University of Houston, I twice got the chance to teach an undergraduate creative writing class with Antonya Nelson. The students were all hand-picked and their talents ran over them like… You know … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonya Nelson, David Stuart MacLean, Duncan Trussell, Kafka, surrealism, teaching, The Metamorphosis
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It’s Just Like TV, But Without the Bodies
“But,” I said, “I once heard something that I trust. Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was going up from the Piraeus under the outside of the North Wall when he noticed corpses lying by the public executioner. He desired to … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Hikkaduwa, James Frey, Mike Daisey, Plato, The Republic, This American Life
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Gatsby and Locusts: The Daily Fitzgerald vs. West Prize Fight Inside of My Head
When I was a child I had action figures. Articulated plastic made to look like men from television and the movies. To make them fight I danced them around each other until I smashed them against each other. I smashed … Continue reading
What Happened to My First Draft
I have this memoir that’s coming out next year. I had never written a memoir before so it was more fraught of a writing experience then I had expected. I rewrote the first fifty pages nine times before I could … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, First Drafts, memoir, music, Old Light, Rayna Gellert, writing process
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Trying Anything Else
The nineteen year old that I work with setting up the Hydration Stations on the Lakefront path told me that this was her second job ever and that she wanted to do really well because she saw a future with … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, employment, Guest Bloggers, Lorrie Moore, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
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#GurneyEssay – The Trending Topic that will Topple Kitten Videos
I want to claim that I have invented a new form of essay. It’s easy and fun and with the uptrending in retirement age demographicals in the USA regionality, it might just become the dominant form of essay writing in … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Guest Bloggers, gurney essay, medical, meme, youtube
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Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?
At my job working the early morning Hydration Stations along the lakefront path serving Gatorade to Chicago-area runners, I work with a 19 year old who also works at the duty-free at the airport (she’s the one who looks at … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, David Stuart MacLean, fact, Guest Bloggers, nonfiction, personal narrative
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Writing Soundtrack: A Step-by-Step Playlist
A month ago the author Mat Johnson (Pym, Drop, Incognegro) went crowdsourcing on his Facebook page for new music to write to. He’d been listening and writing to Endtroducing by DJ Shadow for years and he’d exhausted the thing. It got me … Continue reading
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Tagged David Stuart MacLean, music, playlist, Writing soundtrack
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