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Posted on December 3, 1998.
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Worst Fears
by Fay Weldon
Alexandra, an actor starring in a production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, is summoned home due to forty-nine-year-old Ned’s sudden death from a massive heart attack. Weldon uses an interesting disjointed story-telling style to expose Alexandra’s husband’s infidelities. During the course of the book, Alexandra works her way through the devastating realizations that nothing about her marriage was as it seemed.
Alexandria’s journey of self-discovery is both painful and poignant.
Posted on December 2, 1998.
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In the fall, I spend Saturday afternoons sitting on an aluminum seat, watching my beloved Louisville Cardinals play something that passes for football. The general process of watching these games goes something like this:
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Posted on December 1, 1998.
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The Inspiration:
Bruce Epstein’s Ode to Laura Lemay was pulled from a frayed thread in the Computer Book Publishing List. That ode is reprinted here with permission from its author and an acknowledgment from its inspiration that even though she doesn’t “have problems with … reposting Bruce’s odes, I kind of wish Bruce would find a more productive use of his time, though…. 
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Posted on November 30, 1998.
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by Mike Johnson
1. Beg for work.
2. Get work.
3. Ask self, “How the hell will I ever finish this on time?”
4. Bitch about work.
5. Finish work.
6. Wait to get paid for work. Forever.
7. Rinse.
8. Repeat. 
Copyright © 1997-2008 Mike Johnson
All rights reserved.
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Posted on November 29, 1998.
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by Diana Fox (Diana Stout)
In the beginning my first drafts were filled with holes, barely resembling the story I wanted to tell. The characters were cardboard, rambling mindlessly on far too many unknown paths, and usually ending up in a lagoon or bug-infested swamp with no where to continue forward.
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Posted on November 28, 1998.
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by Dr. Dennis E. Hensley
Jack London (1876-1916) never actually worked as a magazine editor. However, his second wife, Charmian Kittredge London, was the niece of Roscoe Eames, editor of the once-prestigious Overland Monthly. Eames purchased a few freelance pieces from Charmian, including a feature she wrote about Jack London before they were married. Eames also bought several short stories of London’s to publish in Overland Monthly, including “To the Man on Trail,” “In a Far Country,” “The Priestly Prerogative,” and “The Men of Forty Mile.”
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Posted on November 27, 1998.
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Posted on November 26, 1998.
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