tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post116105724044674792..comments2024-03-14T00:16:32.077-07:00Comments on 50 Books: BOOKS: Meee-OW!Tammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1161195554955160772006-10-18T11:19:00.000-07:002006-10-18T11:19:00.000-07:00Bill Gaston taught a section of one of my classes ...Bill Gaston taught a section of one of my classes last year. Couldn't get into his fiction workshop this year because--well, everyone wanted to.<BR/>Apparently he didn't know he'd been nominated 'till someone called to congratulate him on Monday morning.<BR/>Cue general chaos in the writing department.Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06894215177878536537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1161191226366370812006-10-18T10:07:00.000-07:002006-10-18T10:07:00.000-07:00Damn I hate Leon Rooke. We saw him both times we ...Damn I hate Leon Rooke. We saw him both times we went to the Eden Mills Writer's Fest. He gave the most obnoxious reading I've even been witness to. It was a piece from his book <I>Shakespeare's Dog</I>--and he read it <I>as the dog</I>. Snarling, spitting, growling; don't imagine it to be funny because it really, truly was not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1161126390466398592006-10-17T16:06:00.000-07:002006-10-17T16:06:00.000-07:00David Sedaris should be made a reading mandatory.David Sedaris should be made a reading mandatory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1161120829691654902006-10-17T14:33:00.000-07:002006-10-17T14:33:00.000-07:00I hadn't heard of any of the GG nominees either in...I hadn't heard of any of the GG nominees either in fiction. I was just not cool with the fact that it is ALL men. I mean, come on. All the other awards this passed year have had both, so why no girls with the GG's!<BR/><BR/>And, you know, the only book I am considering reading is the one that is nominated for both the GG and the Giller.Kailanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11136262232046813471noreply@blogger.com