Mark Hummel: August 2011

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

NewPages Blog: New Lit on the Block :: bioStories

NewPages Blog: New Lit on the Block :: bioStories: "bioStories is a new online literary web publication edited by Mark Leichliter, writer and freelance editor who publishes fiction, poetry, a..."

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Jennifer Egan Interview/Chat Session at Goodreads

For members of Goodreads, Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan graciously took reader questions in a video chatroom session on August 2nd 2011: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/video_chat/9

Reaction to the Debt Ceiling "Compromise" Deal

This Pat Oliphant cartoon from Tuesday, August 2nd about says all that needs to be said about what transpired within our "representative" government in the last number of days:

Confluence:

a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like;
a coming together of people or things; concourse;
several years ago, backpacking in Canyonlands, my oldest daughter and I hiked to the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers; we stood on the canyon rim, the sheer cliff dropping hundreds of feet to the river confluence, and there as distinct as a line in a coloring book was the visible point where the red of the Colorado and the truly green Green met, then melted together and flowed downstream in unison.