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Meanwhile in Australia

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Gillian Polack

This week I wanted to give you a bit of an insight into different views of the fires. That means lots of links and some quite scary pictures. I’ll finish on a happier note, I promise. First, a perfectly normal … Continue reading →

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Posted in Community, Culture, Food and Cooking, Holidays/Holy Days, Mental health, Nature | Tagged australia, bushfire, Canberra, flood, gillian polack, news, Ulladulla, wildfire

Meanwhile in Australia

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Gillian Polack

I’m a little tired. This is the Australian art of understatement. Right now, we’re using that a lot. If an Australian tells you that they were affected by the fires, check (don’t ask them – find out in a more … Continue reading →

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Posted in anthologies, creativity, Culture, Inspiration, Nature | Tagged australia, bushfire, fire, hail, natural disaster, news, wildfire

Marie Brennan, M.A. Carrick, and the Rook and Rose trilogy!

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Marie Brennan

BVC member Marie Brennan is putting on another hat! Having written the first volume of an epic fantasy trilogy with fellow author (and longtime friend) Alyc Helms, she is delighted to announce today that they have sold the Rook and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Hurrah | Tagged Hurrah, news

A Meerkat Rants: All That You See is Not All That We Know

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Laura Anne Gilman

“Why is nobody talking about this?” If you have spent any time on social media (and I’m looking at you specifically, Tumblr, but every platform’s guilty of it)  you’ve seen some variation of this, typically typed in an incredibly well-meaning, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Rants | Tagged Laura Anne Gilman, news, rant, social media

This Week in the News; I Am Pretty Sure These are Real

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Jill Zeller

I try to stay a-political in my blogs, because the Internet world is a big place with a wild, wild west culture. Travel, writing, art, are all pretty safe. But today I’m going off-script a little, sharing tidbits in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, journalism, News, Science | Tagged environment, Jill Zeller, lioness, news, Science

BVC member Marie Brennan joins LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS!

Posted on June 22, 2017 by News Editor

Book View Cafe is delighted to announce that Marie Brennan has joined the fiction-writing team for the relaunch of the game Legend of the Five Rings! Set in the fictional, Japanese-inspired land of Rokugan, L5R has been a fixture of … Continue reading →

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Posted in News | Tagged Hurrah, news

Ursula K. Le Guin in the News!

Posted on October 10, 2016 by News Editor

News articles about BVC founding member Ursula K. Le Guin

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Posted in Hurrah, Writing life | Tagged Complete Orsinia, New Yorker, news, the nation, Ursula K. Le Guin, Washington Post

Headlines, Fault Lines and Colorization
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Posted on August 10, 2016 by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

I’d be willing to bet that most people have had the experience of reading a headline in a news article (or media chyron) only to have the content of the report fail to live up to the headline. This happens … Continue reading →

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Posted in journalism, Media | Tagged colorization, colorizing, communication, facts, journalism, knowledge, news, opinion, reporting, spin, words

What’s in a Word: Emotional Atmosphere
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Posted on August 27, 2014 by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Like all writers, I have a special relationship with words. In my case, I love them. I am fascinated by the way they work (or fail to work), the myriad ways in which they can be misunderstood, misused, even abused … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Writers on Writing | Tagged fact, fiction, justice, Kajieme Powell, Michael Brown, news, police, racism, rhetoric, shootings, truth, words
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