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Joanne Harris Talks Gentlemen & Players
From: www.writerswrite.com
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Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and Coastliners, chats with The Independent (UK) about her new novel,
Gentlemen & Players, which is set in a British public school (what we would call a private school in America). A former schoolteacher, Harris is quite familiar with the school setting. She discusses her life as a teacher and growing up bilingual, with one French parent and one English parent.
It takes Harris between 18 months and seven years to produce a novel. "My publishers have very cleverly maintained this illusion that I write a book a year", she says. "The truth is that they bring out a book a year, which is slightly different." Harris juggles several manuscripts at a time, writing and revising in parallel.
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"Some people have been terribly offended that I have dared to write about certain aspects of France while missing others out, as if I had a responsibility somehow to show a clear and unbiased vista. I don't do unbiased," says Harris crisply. She knows about the France of nuclear plants and McDonald's franchises but, as she says, "That's the great thing about being a writer - you can choose and pick what you want."
Harris doesn't have time for anyone who feels that "just reading a book for fun is somehow trivial". In fact, she looks like she's itching to hand out a C minus. It's an attitude she comes across frequently in America where book groups seem especially eager to be told what to think, "As if there's some kind of decoder they could get". A man stood up in one of her lectures and asked what he was supposed to come away with from her novels. "I said, 'Sir, I'm not here to tell you what you're supposed to come way with. You don't go into a restaurant, order a steak and then go into the kitchen and ask the chef what it was supposed to taste like!'"
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Harris once described herself as walking the line between two worlds. Her mother didn't speak English when she married, so Harris spoke only French until she went to school. It was a time when Barnsley didn't have foreigners and "my mother distinctly remembers waiting for me... and all the other mothers moving away when they heard us speaking French, as if it might be catching."
Harris has sold more than four million books -- and that's just in Great Britain. She really does have a unique way of looking at the world. She describes Gentlemen & Players as a sort of dark, yet light-hearted comedy. The book will be released in the U.S. in January, 2006 by William Morrow. We're looking forward to reading it.
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Former Muppets Head Writer Jerry Juhl Dead at 67
From: www.writerswrite.com
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Jerry Juhl, the former head writer for the Muppets, has died of cancer at the age of 67.
Juhl, who died at a San Francisco hospital on Sept. 27, became the first full-time employee of Jim Henson Co. in 1961 after meeting Henson at a puppeteer's convention. The company coined the term "Muppet," a combination of the words marionette and puppet, and created a series of short skits parodying television news anchormen and women.
Juhl worked on Henson's first television show, "Sam and Friends" as a puppeteer but soon decided that "wiggling dollies," as he liked to call the art, wasn't his forte and started working as a writer.
He spent six years writing for "Sesame Street" after its 1969 premiere and created scripts for the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, Ernie and The Count. He created Super Grover, a superhero version of Grover, and received two Emmy Awards for his work.
He served as head writer for "The Muppet Show" from 1977-1981. The variety show eventually aired in more than 100 countries, becoming one of the most-watched television shows in the world. He also wrote for three Muppet movies.
Juhl lived in Casper, Mendocino County, California. The obituary notes that "funny nose glasses will be provided" at the celebration of his life which will be held at noon on Nov. 12 at the Caspar Community Center.
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Latest Writing News, Headlines and Blogs from Yahoo:
Reading, writing, now arithmetic (Orange Leader)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"For more than 20 years, Rebecca Flickinger wrote news stories. Today, she's writing a new chapter in her life. "At an age when all my friends are readying to retire I'm starting my third career," she said."
Students need writing policy (Independent Record)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Last week, in an article written by Charles Johnson for all the Lee newspapers in the state, we learned about the Montana Office of Public Instruction s discussion with the Board of Public Education regarding the proposed Writing Proficiency Policy."
Jerry Juhl, 67, Award-Winning Head Writer for Muppet Shows, Is Dead (New York Times)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Jerry Juhl's Emmy Award-winning writing gave life to Jim Henson's whimsically irreverent Muppets on television and film."
EPA Finds Donations Were Not Illegal (Washington Post)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general said Friday that officials writing an EPA rule appeared to show favoritism to an industry dominated by a major fundraiser for President Bush but that they broke no laws or policies in doing so."
Animal sanctuary founder big fan of wildlife writing (Sun-Sentinel)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"This week, McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary founder Mark McCarthy discusses his love of reading and the recent discovery of the Burmese python that burst while trying to digest an alligator in Everglades National Park. McCarty, 49, left his native Dearborn, Mich., in 1972 to pursue a dream of working with animals in Florida. After working as a zookeeper in the mid-1970s, McCarthy was hired by the "
Ann Beattie wins prize for short story writing (Sun-Sentinel)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com
"Ann Beattie, whose terse prose and dispassionate eye made such fiction as Weekend and Vermont classics of 1970s disillusion, has won the Rea Award for the short story."
Latest Writing News, Headlines and Blogs from The Writiing Life:
UpdateStill cannot pub
From: cdeemer.blogspot.com
" UpdateStill cannot publish on my end unless I ftp and change the index.html file manually. When changes actually appear and the blog looks normal, it's because it has been published on the Blogger end by someone trying to help me."
The nightmare continues
From: cdeemer.blogspot.com
" The nightmare continuesWell, 2 folks who tried to help me so far haven't been able to. Is the 3rd time the charm?"
Latest Writing News, Headlines and Blogs from The Write News:
Sidecar Suite Launches Road Trip Magazine
From: www.writenews.com
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Sidecar Suite, Inc. has announced the publication of Road Trip, a magazine devoted to the motorcycle travel lifestyle. Sidecar Suite says Road Trip is "dedicated to entertaining and informing a burgeoning niche of motorcyclists with a zeal for motorcycling and a love of travel." Sidecar says the publication will focus on affluent riders who can afford to satisfy their wanderlust in comfort and style.
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The IWJ Interviews Author Richard Cox
From: www.writenews.com
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The latest issue of The Internet Writing Journal features an exclusive interview with novelist Richard Cox, author of Rift (Ballantine) and The God Particle (Del Rey). The God Particle (Del Rey) is an exciting SF thriller in which two men's lives collide. One is a wealthy auto exec who sees things no one else can see after he has brain surgery, and the other is a brilliant physicist who is working on finding the elusive Higgs boson. In the IWJ's exclusive interview, Richard Cox talks about his lifelong dream of being a writer, and why he wanted to address the controversial issue of science vs. religion.
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