As promised in last week's post on Twitter's Fiction Festival, here's a round up of a few standouts of the online event, which finished this past Sunday. Four things I took away from the festival, besides learning how to read from the ground up: 1. My personal favorite was Andrew Pyper's sinister adaptation of Thomas…
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Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl–Magic Man and Peter Pan
"The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles"--The BFG My childhood would have been so barren were it not for the words of Roald Dahl, and, of…
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New Fiction by… F. Scott Fitzgerald?
We already know that most, if not all, of the world's most celebrated writers had their fair share of rejection before shooting to literary fame. It comes as no surprise, then, that F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of The Great Gatsby, was at one point turned away by such an elite publication as The New Yorker. Back…