Author: Benjamin
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Post #52: How Great is the Internet?
Man, I love the Internet. Where else could you ever have access to the mad genius who spent God knows how many hundreds of hours assembling and cutting together a seven minute video of all the phrases that Aaron Sorkin (pictured at left) has repeated, and then repeated again (via…
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Post #50: The Path to Publication, Part 1
DR. EBOOK, or, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION (guest post by author Ron Dionne) Thanks, Benjamin, for inviting me to post on The Almost Right Words about the publication of my book, SAD JINGO. It’s an honor and a privilege, and I’m grateful. You mentioned…
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Post #49: Sad Jingo
Good news. My friend Ron Dionne’s novel Sad Jingo is finally available as an ebook from Delabarre publishing. Ron and I met at the NY Pitch and Shop a few years ago and since I first heard the premise for Sad Jingo, I’ve been dying to get my hands on…
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Post #48: Review Static
The question up for debate today is: Can you read or hear strong opinions (positive or negative) about a piece of art without your own judgments and ideas being warped and affected? A corollary question is: does the volume and passion of said opinions have a relationship to said (potential)…
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Post #47: Returning Update
Dear Charles, It’s funny you should mention that Agassi autobiography (Open). Who knew it was going to be such a fantastic book? The truth is that it was an inspiration to me, but not in the way you might have expected. Agassi’s story is in many ways a sad one.…
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Post #46: Returning Update
Dear Charles, Thanks for asking about how things are going with Returning. In truth, the novel I’m writing perplexes me, but I remain vigilant, trusting the bright gem of my initial vision and my commitment to listen to my characters. I started this novel last summer with the idea that…
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Post #45: The Greatest Book Series You Aren’t Reading (and maybe haven’t heard of)
I’d like to put in a major plug here for Bloomsbury Academic’s 331/3, a book series with a brilliantly simple premise. Get the best music writers on the planet to write single volumes dedicated to single albums. Each book, there are currently 86 and counting, the most recent of which…
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Post #44: Cheryl Strayed’s new memoir Wild
Cheryl Strayed’s new memoir Wild is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Engrossing. Exciting. Enriching. Deeply emotional. True in the best sense of the word. There were passages in it of such honesty, of such naked emotional truth, that I shuddered as I read. As…
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Post #43: A Fine Line
Sometimes in parenting, the line between fury and hilarity is paper thin. You feel incredibly powerful emotions, emotions like rage and hate and amped-up types of frustration that make earlier, pre-parenting forms of frustration seem almost quaint by comparison. And yet, these emotions, and the strong and often regrettable language…
Benjamin Roesch 