Tag: Maud Newton
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Maud Newton Spotted in Noir Streetscape and She’s Ready for Her Close-Up
Since Maud Newton recently “resurfaced” on Facebook, I thought I would repost this article that originally appeared here at Bill Ectric’s Place on June 7, 2009. Maud Newton Soars Narrative Magazine has an excerpt from Maud Newton’s novel and it is top notch! A combination of light-hearted snark and Poe-like dark, which is exactly what…
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Awe-Inspired Paralysis
From Maud Newton: Joan Didion suffered from an extreme case of awe-inspired paralysis. She told The Paris Review that, while Henry James was as formative as influence on her writing as Hemingway, she could no longer read him at all. He wrote perfect sentences, too, but very indirect, very complicated. Sentences with sinkholes. You could…
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Aspern Papers & Ghost Stories
Consarn it, Maud Newton! I try not to feature any one blogger too often here at Bill Ectric’s Place, but you keep posting such damned interesting stuff! I’m referring to this and this. I think that photo of Henry James , Edith Wharton , and Howard Sturgis would make a great poster. I’m going to look…
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Newton, Burdon, Bergman
Congratulations to Maud Newton for winning the Narrative Magazine Annual Fiction Prize for her novel excerpt, When the Flock Changed. Former Animal superstar Eric Burdon talks to Bradley Mason Hamlin about writing, filmmaking, shady record deals, and more at Mystery Island. On the House of the Rising Sun musical arrangement, Burdon says, “We didn’t have the time…
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Maud Newton Soars
Narrative Magazine has an excerpt from Maud Newton’s novel and it is top notch! A combination of light-hearted snark and Poe-like dark, which is exactly what most real childhoods consist of. When I say Poe, I’m thinking of The Black Cat. When the protagonist killed the cat, I simultaneously cringed and identified with him. Not that…