Comments on: Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/benjamin-taylor/ publishing a new kind of writer's notebook Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:39:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: editor http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/benjamin-taylor/#comment-16 editor Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:05:04 +0000 http://www.openlooppress.org/?p=114#comment-16 BENJAMIN TAYLOR IS A FINALIST FOR BARNES & NOBLE'S 2008 DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS AWARD!! The winner will be announced on March 4th, 2009 in New York City. All six fiction and nonfiction finalists will give a reading at Barnes & Noble's Tribeca store in Lower Manhattan (97 Warren Street @ Greenwich) at seven o'clock that evening. Keep your eyes on your feed reader for more info. And if you're in the New York area, stop by to support! ~CMW BENJAMIN TAYLOR IS A FINALIST FOR BARNES & NOBLE’S 2008 DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS AWARD!!

The winner will be announced on March 4th, 2009 in New York City.

All six fiction and nonfiction finalists will give a reading at Barnes & Noble’s Tribeca store in Lower Manhattan (97 Warren Street @ Greenwich) at seven o’clock that evening.

Keep your eyes on your feed reader for more info. And if you’re in the New York area, stop by to support!

~CMW

]]> By: NYCwriter http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/benjamin-taylor/#comment-4 NYCwriter Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:15:53 +0000 http://www.openlooppress.org/?p=114#comment-4 I think some of the best books I've read follow a character from early childhood to early adulthood.  One in particular stands out: "Body and Soul" by Frank Conroy.  It's about a boy named Claude and his journey from being a young musician to a famous composer.  It's the kind of story that you can't stop reading because from page one you care about the main character, which means you're completely invested in finding out what happens to him.  On a technical level, I don't know why it works so well, but as a reader I think it has a perfect combination of art and action.  Plus the author gets inside the head of the musician and reveals what it's like to intimately understand music, which seems really hard to do as well as he's done it.  I just really love this book. I think some of the best books I’ve read follow a character from early childhood to early adulthood.  One in particular stands out: “Body and Soul” by Frank Conroy.  It’s about a boy named Claude and his journey from being a young musician to a famous composer.  It’s the kind of story that you can’t stop reading because from page one you care about the main character, which means you’re completely invested in finding out what happens to him.  On a technical level, I don’t know why it works so well, but as a reader I think it has a perfect combination of art and action.  Plus the author gets inside the head of the musician and reveals what it’s like to intimately understand music, which seems really hard to do as well as he’s done it.  I just really love this book.

]]> By: editor http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/benjamin-taylor/#comment-12 editor Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:05:10 +0000 http://www.openlooppress.org/?p=114#comment-12 <strong>Los Angeles Times Names “The Book of Getting Even” One of the Best Books of 2008!! </strong> Congratulations, Ben! Check out the Los Angeles Times' review of "The Book of Getting Even." http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book30-2008jun30,0,6529457.story - CMW Los Angeles Times Names “The Book of Getting Even” One of the Best Books of 2008!!

Congratulations, Ben!

Check out the Los Angeles Times’ review of ”The Book of Getting Even.”

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book30-2008jun30,0,6529457.story

- CMW

]]> By: editor http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/benjamin-taylor/#comment-13 editor Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:35:07 +0000 http://www.openlooppress.org/?p=114#comment-13 For more on the historical moment that gave rise to Danny's actions in "The Book of Getting Even"  listen to this conversation between Fresh Air's Terry Gross and Bill Ayers, a former anti-war activist and current professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.  Ayers offers a window into the mind of one engaged in radical opposition to the Vietnam War in a way only someone who has experienced it first hand can do. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97112600 - CMW For more on the historical moment that gave rise to Danny’s actions in ”The Book of Getting Even”  listen to this conversation between Fresh Air’s Terry Gross and Bill Ayers, a former anti-war activist and current professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.  Ayers offers a window into the mind of one engaged in radical opposition to the Vietnam War in a way only someone who has experienced it first hand can do.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97112600

- CMW

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