Check out: http://americanadianlife.blogspot.com/ Rebecca Cook Dube is a friend who recently moved from Seattle to Toronto. "This AmeriCanadian Life: The True North adventures of an American writer in Canada" is funny, wonderfully conversational and brings the kind of pleasure that comes from hearing a smart writer just musing about stuff. For all the definitions of blogs, perhaps what they really are is the equivalent of a literary salon. Imagine Oscar Wilde blogging. Lines I love: 1. On a White House press conference: "You can almost smell the Scott McClellan flopsweat." 2. " Home is where the dog is." 3. Advice from her parents, including this one from Dad: "Everything tastes better with nuts." Mr. Cook, I couldn't agree with you more. Brownies, salads, cookies, you name it, nuts make all the difference. My advice to Rebecca: keep writing this blog. Definitely a book here!
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Essays, Memoir
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Audio: A commentary on National Public Radio - "The Only Honest Man"
- "Reading the Paper"
Reporting
- "Made in the Shade"
A package on Southern writers: profiles, interviews and an 11-state directory of writers you may never have heard of but are worth your time. Appeared in Creative Loafing chain. - "Mass Appeal"
A day-in-the-life profile of a telegenic parish priest in Miami. Published in Catholic Digest, reprinted in the St. Petersburg Times - "The Liberation of Tam Minh Pham"
How the first West Point graduate from South Vietnam disappears after the fall of Saigon, only to be rescued by his classmates two decades later. A cover story in The Washington Post Magazine
Fiction
- Holly Wreaths Across America
A map of newspapers in the U.S. who published "The Holly Wreath Man" serial novel since 2003. - "The Needle" - A Work in Progress
Battling for Men's Minds - "Mad Looper"
A Caddy's Life
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