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David Crosby & Stephen Stills Say 2012 Was On Of CSN's Best Years
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
As Crosby, Stills, & Nash prep for another year on the road, they all agree that 2012 was one of the highlights of their career. Stephen Stills told American Songwriter, "It was the best tour I had in years. In years and years. Nobody was vibing anyone out of the room. We're comfortable in our skins. . . and we seem to have rounded a corner with being patient and forgiving."
David Crosby agrees with Stills, saying: "This has been one of our best years. I couldn't be happier about it. Normally a band doesn't have a long lifetime, and we've had an exceptionally long one. We were expecting to fade out but this year it's taken about a 10 percent upswing. Every place we play, big places, Red Rocks -- we sold it out, every last seat. That's really encouraging."
Graham Nash, who has always found himself to be the intermediary between his partners, says things are good between the musicians these days and chalks it up to the extra effort Stills is now bringing to live show: "He's singing in tune better, he's playing his guitar better. Crosby is not looking at him on the side of the stage giving him stink eye because he played the wrong note, or sang a wrong note, or whatever the reason. And those two are getting on much better than they ever did."
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Brandon Graham Declares A New "Prophet"
"King City" creator Brandon Graham spoke with CBR News about lending his writing prowess to the future of "Prophet," one of the books in Rob Liefeld's 2012 Extreme Studios relaunch.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "The Infinite" #4
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld's "The Infinite" #4, on sale in November!
PRESS RELEASE: Image Comics Offers Free "Extreme Preview" Book
NYCC: Kirkman is Skybound in New York
Image Comics partner Robert Kirkman discussed the future of his Skybound imprint at New York Comic Con plus news on projects with writer Brandon Seifert and artist Shawn Martinbrough.
Comics A.M. - The Once and Future Extreme Studios; Colleen Doran's Digital Success
Image's Eric Stephenson reflects on Extreme Studios! Colleen Doran's digital comics advice! Marzena Sowa talks Vertigo's "Marzi"! Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb and more!
NYCC: Image's Creator-Owned Panel with Robert Kirkman
Image Comics creators Robert Kirkman, Rob Liefeld, Jim McCann, Joe Keatinge, Tim Seeley and more discuss the joys of owning your creations and new projects, with a special video message from Ed Brubaker.
NYCC: The Resurrection of Extreme Studios
Announced today at NYCC, Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios returns to Image Comics with new issues of "Youngblood," "Prophet," "Glory" and never before published Alan Moore "Supreme" stories.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "Avengelyne" #3
Image Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive extended preview of "Avengelyne" #3 by Rob Liefeld, Mark Poultoun and Owen Gieni. The issue hits Wednesday, September 28.
J. Scott Campbell Covers "The Infinite"
Image Comics has announced that J. Scott Campbell will provide a variant cover for the third issue of Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld's series "The Infinite," in stores in early October.
PRESS RELEASE: Mid-Ohio Announces Guests James Marsters, Rob Liefeld, and More
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "The Infinite" #2
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of the second issue of Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld's "The Infinite," which is set to hit stores in September.
PRESS RELEASE: McFarlane Provides Variant Cover for "The Infinite" #2
PRESS RELEASE: Kirkman & Liefeld's "The Infinite" #1 Commands Second Print
REVIEW: "The Infinite" #1
Doug Zawisza gives "The Infinite" #1 4 stars, saying co-creators Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld "play off each other's strengths well enough to conceal any perceived weaknesses."
Comic Book Legends Revealed! - Liefeld's Young Avengers, Morrison's Xorn & More
This week, discover the hidden secrets of Batman's "Brave and the Bold" team-ups! And did we almost see Rob Liefeld's Young Avengers - in 1990? Plus, find out if Xorn was really supposed to be Magneto!
CBR TV @ CCI: Liefeld on "Image United, "Hawk & Dove" & More
Rob Liefeld spoke with CBR TV about "Image United" delays, developing "The Infinite" with Robert Kirkman, returning to "Hawk & Dove" for DC Comics' New 52 initiative and more.
CBR TV @ CCI: Kirkman on "The Infinite," "Walking Dead" & More
Robert Kirkman keeps his CBR TV appearance streak alive, discussing "The Walking Dead" prose novel, the AMC series' second season, "The Infinite" and more.
CCI: Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment Panel
Robert Kirkman brings collaborators from his incoming Image Comics series "The Infinite" and "Thief of Thieves" as well as news of "The Walking Dead" and "Invincible" to Comic-Con with Skybound Entertainment.
EXCL. PREVIEWS: "Avengelyne," "Darkness" & "Reaper"
Image Comics has provided CBR with exclusive looks for three books debuting July 20 -- Rob Liefeld's "Avengelyne" #1, "The Darkness" #92 and Cliff Rathburn's long-awaited "Reaper" #2.
PRESS RELEASE: Kirkman's Skybound Announces Comic-Con Panels, Signings & Exclusives
Liefeld & Kirkman Tease "Infinite" Animosity
Image Comics has released a third teaser for Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld's August-releasing "The Infinite," this time focusing on a mysterious character with an axe to grind.
Kirkman & Liefeld Release Second "Infinite" Teaser
Image has released a second teaser for Robert Krkman and Rob Lifeld's "The Infinite," this time focusing on Bo, the younger version of yesterday's teaser subject, Bowen.
Kirkman, Liefeld Tease "Infinite" Possibilities
Image Comics has released a teaser for Robert Kirkman and Rob Lifeld's "The Infinite," asking a question about the main character Bowen's time traveling motivation.
PRESS RELEASE: Yu Provides Variant Cover for Kirkman & Liefeld's "The Infinite" #1
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Kirkman & Liefeld's "The Infinite" #1
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment have provided CBR with an exclusive preview of Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld's "The Infinite" #1!
When Words Collide - 7/5/2011
Tim comes back from some time away with the New Mutants to share the life lessons he takes from the 100 issues of the original series, by the likes of Chris Claremont, Bill Sienkiewicz and Rob Liefeld.
Robert Kirkman's "Infinite" Horizon
As he and Rob Liefeld's new time-travel buddy epic "The Infinite" hits in August, Robert Kirkman tells CBR how he built the world of the future, why he's making deluxe print editions of each issue and how they'll make a splash at Comic-Con.
PRESS RELEASE: Joe Benitez Adds a New Variant Cover for "Avengelyne" #1
Teen Titans, Legion Highlight Latest DC Comics Relaunch News
Today's DC Comics' relaunch announcement is teen-centric, with news on new Legion titles, Static, a Scott Lobdell-helmed "Teen Titans" and a Rob Liefeld-illustrated Hawk & Dove ongoing series.
Liefeld Resurrects "Avengelyne"
Rob Liefeld spoke with CBR about this summer's return of his fan-favorite character Avengelyne under the creative watch of writer Mark Poulton and artist Owen Gieni. Plus, exclusive art from issue 2!
PRESS RELEASE: Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni Bring Back Rob Liefeld's Avengelyne in July
Kirkman Gears Up For "The Infinite"
The Skybound creator of "Invincible" speaks on his new time travel epic with Rob Liefeld, explaining the shoulder pads and guns he plans for his artist and teasing the face of the book's main villain.
PRESS RELEASE: Robert Kirkman Announces "The Infinite"
Liefeld Breaches "The Infinite"
On the heels of announcing a new Image series with Robert Kirkman, Rob Liefeld explains the story behind "The Infinite" and how he's moving forward with new characters, pouches, shoulderpads and guns. UPDATED WITH EXCLUSIVE ART
Kirkman and Liefeld Unite for "The Infinite"
Robert Kirkman and Rob Liefeld are collaborating on a time-traveling sci-fi epic called "The Infinite" that will debut in August from Kirkman's Skybound imprint. ROBOT 6 has details.
Could "kaboom!" Blow Up In Court?
One obstacle that may lie in the way of BOOM! Studios relaunch of their kids comic line as kaboom! Comics is Rob Liefeld's trademark on "Kaboom," a teen superhero series he published through Awesome Entertainment.
"Spawn" #200 Signing Photo Parade
Todd McFarlane and Golden Apple Comics celebrated the release of "Spawn" #200 this week, along with Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri and many others. CBR was in attendance and we have the photos!
PRESS RELEASE: Record Setting "Spawn" #200 Issue Becomes Comics' Best Value in Years
McKeever Unleashes an "Onslaught" on the Marvel U
This February, Sean McKeever and Filipe Andrade kick off the four issue "Onslaught Unleashed." We spoke with McKeever about pitting the titular villain against both the Young Allies and the Secret Avengers.
Liefeld Resurrects "Zombie Jesus"
The "Deadpool" co-creator's latest original series takes the zombie genre to truly biblical proportions. Rob Liefeld spoke with CBR about "Zombie Jesus" and other webcomics he's planning to publish in the near future.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — She doesn't strike you as your typical hero. Eighty-three years old. Lives in a Springfield mobile home park in a house with no medals on the wall, no newspaper clippings in a binder, no calendars with speaking events for groups eager to hear her story.


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Dover religious assoc. observes MLK Day
Monday, January 21, 2013
DOVER — Had he lived, Martin Luther King would have been 84 years old this month.
The early and mid -1960s were tumultuous times as the opposing ideologies of King and Malcolm X came to the fore, with King holding that integration into society and equality for both blacks and whites was the proper path, while X advocated a separate and total economic and political independence for his people.
In the speech Dr. King gave a nod to the more militant followers of Malcom X and his Black Muslim followers by saying "We must not satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." He continued, "Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
A large crowd gathered at the Church Sunday evening and listened and participated in the service recognizing King and his work.
After a welcome by Pastor Bennett, Emily and Abigail Kaye of South Berwick, sang a duet entitled Laugh At All My Dreams, by Debbie Friedman. The girls, both students at Marshwood High School were quite familiar with the impact King has had.
The Kayes are members of Dover's Temple Israel and were accompanied on the guitar by their mother Mary.
Dover's Bruce and Donna McAdam attended as they have every year. "I remember when it was a City of Dover event years ago," said Donna. We like it this way as well," added Bruce.
While thinking of the discussion that was to take place later, where those in attendance would share their "dream," Donna expressed her dream of more affordable housing for teens transitioning to adulthood. "Those youngsters need inexpensive places to live while they are joining the workforce," she said. "That is my dream."
Alex Chase, a 15 year old freshman at Dover High School had learned much about King. "I find him to be very inspirational," said the Congregational Church Confirmand, "he showed us that there is no difference between blacks and whites."
As they program progressed, a video was shown of King's speech once again demonstrating to all his prowess as on orator, as he was stoic reading from his notes at the beginning, then as he continued, his demeanor became animated and the crowd at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool responded to his now almost extemporaneous urgings.
Barack Obama will be sworn in for a second term as President of the United States on January 20th. Obama has commented that this month of his inauguration marks the 50th anniversary of the "I have dream" speech as well as the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's signing the Emancipation Proclamation.


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Smith will face a hearing on July 30 to discuss the matter, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office spokesman Frank Mateljan told USA Today Sports by email Tuesday.
"A City Attorney Office hearing is administered by members of the City Attorney's office in lieu of a criminal filing," Mateljan wrote in the email. "Involved parties are scheduled to attend and give their account of the incident. The individuals are then admonished about the applicable laws and given suggestions on how to avoid similar incidents in the future."
Although no action will be taken now, the office reserves the right to file charges up to one year after the April 13 incident.
Smith, 24, has faced a tumuluous year with several off-field incidents. He missed five games after voluntarily checking himself into a substance abuse program, and faces a July 25 sentencing hearing on weapons and DUI charges from two unrelated incidents. He faces the strong possibility of being suspended by the NFL to begin the 2014 season.
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Game 99: Nats at Dodgers
Jul 22, 2011, 10:17 PM EDT
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The Nationals open a weekend series at Dodger Stadium.
If you're like me, currently sweating it out in D.C. and wondering what exactly the formula is for determining the heat index, you may not want to look closely below at tonight's forecast in Los Angeles. Suffice it to say, those of us not on this road trip are mighty jealous of those who are.
There is, however, a tangible effect those cool temps in La-La Land should have on tonight's series opener between the Nationals and Dodgers: The ball probably won't be carrying very well through the cool, dense air. Dodger Stadium is notoriously a tough hitter's park at night, only more so when the temperature is down.
Of course, neither the Nats nor the Dodgers boast especially potent lineups, so that could have more to do with the result tonight than anything. John Lannan and Hiroki Kuroda should be poised to put forth a couple of quality starts.
Like I said, I'm not covering this series in person, but I'll be staying up late to watch the game on TV and will probably share a few thoughts along the way. I'll try to answer some of your questions, too, if you want to ask them in the comments section. Just do me a favor and wait until the game starts to post them, because I'm not going to be in front of my computer until then…
NATIONALS at DODGERS
Where: Dodger Stadium
Gametime: 10:10 p.m.
Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (1500 AM), XM 189
Weather: Sunny, 68 degrees, Wind 7 mph out to RF
CF Roger Bernadina
2B Danny Espinosa
3B Ryan Zimmerman
1B Michael Morse
- natsfan1a - Jul 23, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Me, too, Anon and Jim. No way I can stay up until 1 a.m. Heck, sometimes I can't even make it to 10 p.m. I receive the postgame email updates, so I had the happy results in my in-box this a.m. and came here to read the details. Did record the game and will watch it later. Wish I could have stayed up late enough to see the surprise LannEn HR in real time. Thanks for doing the in-game commentary despite not being on road duty, Mark. Always fun to read after the game, even if I've watched it in real time. Also nice to see Flynnie stop in.(And the captcha is "ungrate," which I am never. ;-))
- natsfan1a - Jul 23, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Also, FIRST (on the new page)!!! (Aren't people who do that really annoying? Oh, wait.)
- sjm308 - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Not you! Never!Went through all that last night and exited after I saw Hairston go deep and saw Storen on the mound. I never realized that Mark was not only answering our questions but keeping a game summery running as well. That had to be difficult and Thanks again Mark. I loved all the various moves made last night but could the Dodgers starter have been any slower when someone got on base? Great relief pitching to match LannEn and except for Espinosa everyone contributed at the plate. Not sure it will be mentioned but Ramos got runners to 3rd twice in this game with productive outs.Also want to thank GoNat for his clairvoyance.Sweep starts with the first winGo Nats!!
- Nats Outsider - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Wow! Over 200 comments on a game that was basically routine. (Okay, Lannan got a home run. I suppose that takes it out of the routine, but still.) Mark, I hope you realize what a tribute that is to what you have created here. Since you first set up this blog a year and a half ago, it has grown into a must-read. That is completely due to your ability to write so well and to do it from the fans' perspective. I've emailed your column to baseball fans who are not in the DC area, just to let them read a particularly insightful column. They are very appreciative.There are not many reporters who would stay up and stay online to chat with fans while covering a game. That's the kind of commitment that generates community; reader comments at 2:00 am attest to that. I hope it serves you as well, by giving you some practice in staying up late. You might need that this fall. Kudos as well to CSNWashington, for providing you the financial stability that makes this blog possible and for recognizing its value. Thanks, Mark.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM
Game 100 tonight and the Nats need the 50/50!!!! Fun staying up past 1:30 last night with all of you and unfortunately up way too early this morning!
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM
12:48 a.m. — Credit to Sean Burnett on a job well done. The lefty has obviously struggled plenty this season, especially of late. But he just came through big-time to strand the tying runner in scoring position. Still 3-2 after seven.______________________This was how the Nats stayed in the game for anyone that didn't see it. Burnett came in with a man on 2nd and 1 out and got out the next 2 batters.When was the last time that Burnett came in with an inherited runner that he didn't allow to score? June 24th in the marathon game in Chicago White Sox.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Remember in the off-season when Brandon Webb chose the Texas Rangers over the Washington Nationals? He still hasn't thrown a pitch for the Rangers and won't as he will need additional shoulder surgery and his season is over.
- gonatsgo - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Wish I could have stayed up – went to bed right after LannEn hit his big HR. I thought it was a good idea to go to sleep happy. Even happier when I woke up to the good news and JerHair's grannie! Just finished browsing through the comments – thanks, Mark – now I kind of feel like I watched it. Sounds like Desi had a little bit of a lapse last night….
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM
What stat or memory produced Davey's hunch to pinch hit Hairston, Jr.? Loved Debbi's moniker: "Long Ball Lannan." Baseball rewards you with the most improbable happenings. It made for a good night's sleep and happy dreams. Good morning and have a great Saturday, everybody! Especially Sec. 3, who made following this blog extra-entertaining during last night's game.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:18 PM
flynnie, Hairston went in earlier to PH for Bernadina so he was already in the game when he hit the Grand Slam. Funny thing was he tinkered about countering with Cora when Mattingly brought in the rightie and he probably would have if he had another outfielder.
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM
sjm308 said… I loved all the various moves made last night but could the Dodgers starter have been any slower when someone got on base? I think Kuroda's own infield wanted him to lose. That guy's pace had Carpy saying, "He has to throw it sometime tonight."
- sunderland - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Morning lads and ladies. Missed the whole game last night, prefer to catch up by reading this blog more than any other way. Dig this cyber-clan.Mark – really appreciate your comments about Matt Stairs. I'm in the "why is he here?" club, but very glad you threw some perspective on this issue.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Question: Another Burnett stat since he faced 2 batters and got them both out (Gwynn and Furcal). While he wasn't facing Murderers Row, the last time Sean Burnett came in as a reliever and didn't allow at least 1 base hit?Answer: June 26th in ChicagoComment: This guy is lucky to still be employed
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Thanks, Gonat. I must've drifted off in the bottom of the 8th. I was so proud of Flores and Desi for "not chasing" to quote Davey. And with the bases loaded, and Donnie Baseball making the pitching change, and Jerry Jr coming tugging on his batting gloves, striding up to the plate, I once again thought, "How could anyone say baseball is boring?"
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:34 PM
NatsFan1A said: Also nice to see Flynnie stop in.(And the captcha is "ungrate," which I am never. ;-))Thanks, 1A! I just saw this, and what a nice way to start the weekend! "Gratitude is the mother of all virtues." Chesterton
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Davey's post game comments are always worth a visit to MASN. Lannan tired of Livo et. al. ride him on his hitting, and began taking a lot of time in the cage. "Now Livo says we have three good hitters – himself (of course), Lannan and Marquis." Love Livo. Love Davey.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 2:01 PM
flynnie said… Davey's post game comments are always worth a visit to MASN. Lannan tired of Livo et. al. ride him on his hitting, and began taking a lot of time in the cage. "Now Livo says we have three good hitters – himself (of course), Lannan and Marquis." Love Livo. Love Davey. July 23, 2011 9:40 AM____________________________Well, Jordan Zimmermann has a .172 BA and leads all Nats starting pitchers in OBP with .226The real shame is all starting pitchers except Gorzo now have more RBIs than pinch hitting extraodinaire Matt Stairs.DID DAVEY MENTION THAT? Yah, I didn't think so.
- Mark'd - Jul 23, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Gonat, after Lannen got that HR he passed Stairs in clutch hits, RBIs and Home Runs.
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Didn't the sight of Stairs in the on-deck circle induce a pitching change? Other managers still fear him. He did win the one game here with a walk-off against the wall. Maybe he's waking up. It would be nice to have some more pop off the bench.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM
flynnie, you are joking, right? Mattingly forced Davey's hand bringing in the lefty and Flores PH for Stairs and walked.The only person who fears Matt Stairs is Mike Rizzo because he didn't have the balls to dump his sorry you-know-what 3 months ago.As said before, they are going by the law of averages that even the lucky squirrel finds a nut and hits the elusive big one.The problem is REPLACEMENT. Rizzo has lost out as this guy does nothing other than pinch hit. Doesn't run the bases, doesn't play defense, doesn't pitch. A waste of a roster spot. Think of all the other Free Agent bench players to choose from and Rizzo chose Stairs.
- UNTERP.NAT - Jul 23, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Just watched the longest game in MLB history. I went to bed just after Davey relieved Lannan. Woke up and fast forwarded the game to the point when Lannan was taken out. And watched the rest of the game to 9:30AM when the game ended. That's 11:20 hours minutes. Why did the game take so long? Was there a rain delay?
- NatsLady - Jul 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Unterp.nat –Nope, no rain delay. Just the world's slowest starting pitcher and 93 pitching changes by the Dodger's manager in the top of the 9th.
- nats guy - Jul 23, 2011 at 3:46 PM
Eugene in Oregon,I live in Corvallis. Its not often that you run in to Nats fans out here. I too miss DC but not for the heat. Go Nats.
- FS - Jul 23, 2011 at 3:58 PM
Fell asleep while following the game here and gameday. Woke up at 3:45 to see us win by 7-2. Good job guys and thanks Mark.
- baseballswami - Jul 23, 2011 at 5:10 PM
Our starting pitchers have 24 hits this year – is that a lot or normal? Seems like a lot to me. Oh — and Sean Burnett is batting 1000. 3 Starting pitchers above Stairs, 2 just under him. That's pretty pathetic. I understand what Mark said last night in his comments – it was well put, but still extremely frustrating. One of the funnier pitcher at-bats was MPHRod being taught how to bunt in the dugout right before he had to try it in the game.( I think the game Gorzo had to come out of) He failed, but at least didn't hit in to the double play. Hopefully he has been tutored since then.
- Scooter - Jul 23, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Sunderland (and a few others), Matt Stairs illustrates one of my favorite fan fallacies. Zuckerman's reply last night touched on this:Although Matt Stairs has hit .100 (or whatever), that does not mean that Matt Stairs is a .100 (or whatever) hitter. Too often, we assume that what a guy did is what he is.(Disclaimer: at his age, of course, Stairs could just be washed up. I suspect he is. The Nats apparently do not think so — as evidenced by the fact that he is still around. Fin.)
- Scooter - Jul 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM
Swami, here's the best I got for you:Nats' hitting by position (you already found this)NL hitting by positionSo you can see that overall, Nats pitchers are about league average. How they compare to each individual team, I don't know. I don't know of a page that lists just that information all together.
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 5:54 PM
GoNats – Not joking. Can't get worked up over Stairs. Too delirious that this team is @500 and that the Lerners budget don't have them starting Matt Chico, Mike Bascik, Jason Bergmann, Shawn Hill, Tim Redding and Jason Simontacchi like they did to open the new ballpark with 100+ loss season after season. I don't know who else Rizzo had available and whether he was given the money. The Lerners could afford to bring Adam Dunn in with present contract. I'd love that. But Stairs is who we got and I'm grateful for the one walk-off win, looking for more.
- Drew8 - Jul 23, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Good to see Brad Peacock revert to form last night. He gave up one earned over 5 in Syracuse.Sammy Solis didn't fare as well for Potomac, getting knocked around and giving up 4 earned in four innings. Solis is now 3-1 with a 3.91 ERA since his promotion.Tommy Milone goes for Syracuse tonight. We haven't seen Taylor Jordan of Hagerstown for awhile. I guess the ASB and rainouts have messed up his routine.A buddy and I are headed out to the ballpark to see the nightcap of the Richmond-Harrisburg Bake Off. I hope Harper will play, but won't be surprised if they sit him after the 1:05 p.m. scorcher.If he does play, it will be a really good test. Richmond, a Giants affiliate, is throwing ace Eric Surkamp, a lefty who is 7-3 with a 2.05 ERA, 118 strikeouts and only 32 walks. A lot of teams missed on Surkamp, a 6th round pick in 2008 out of N.C. State.
- Gonat - Jul 23, 2011 at 6:18 PM
flynnie, if I had to choose between Willie Harris, Justin Maxwell or Matt Stairs, I go with Willie Harris.The problem was when final cuts were made it was down to Bernadina, Ankiel, Nix, and Stairs (pick 3). How do you pick Stairs before Bernadina?One day I think we find the truth from Riggleman as the rumor was he didn't want Stairs and Rizzo made the decision.Stairs comments at times are mind boggling on how he prepares for a game and how he approaches pitchers. Not a guy I want on my team.
- Anonymous8 - Jul 23, 2011 at 6:35 PM
BJ Upton back in the news. His stats vs. RH pitchers are sub-par and vs LH Starters this season he is .231/.305.Rizzo is not going to get him for next to nothing and he won't help this team any more than Bernadina. Why is this rumor still persisting?
- Sorta like this, gonat? - Jul 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM
'PROFESSIONAL HITTER' MATT STAIRS, 43, STICKS WITH GAMEBy Courtney Lofgren, USA TODAYWASHINGTON — With today's technological advances, hitters can pour over material to prepare for every at-bat. Scouting reports, video and computers allow hitters to prepare for all pitchers they could see.So how does the man known as "the professional hitter" prepare?"(It's) very easy, I don't do nothing," Matt Stairs says, a smile creeping across his face. "I take batting practice. I don't watch video. I try not to watch my swing, because the majority of the time I'm getting out. I just try to stay happy."
- Unkyd - Jul 23, 2011 at 7:13 PM
(slaps own forehead…) WOW… I just realized… Life is WAY too short for me to pay any more attention to pointless pissing over Matt Stairs! Mark stated the obvious, last night, as to why nobody has "the cojones" (puhleese!) to hold someone's feet to the fire over Stairs' presence: any reporter wishing to have further questions treated with respect, would do well to avoid seeming to insist on management throwing current players under the bus. No dugout or FO personell is gonna give you anything other than vague platitudes and cliches, concerning unproductive players. Venting here is one thing, denigrating Mark, and his colleagues, for not risking their livelihood on questions they know won't be answered, is just silly.Stairs is who he is… I don't like it either, but I'll be the one with my hands over my ears, going "LALALALA…!!!", during any future capitalized rants….Don't let that stop you, though…. It's a free country
- Unkyd - Jul 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM
That was, basically a cumulative rant, rather than aimed at any specific recent post…. The ones preceding it were actually mild, and rather amusing…. Never can oredict when a gasket will blow…..Hot as Heck, ain't it…?
- Drew8 - Jul 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Harper goes 0 for 3 in the early game at Richmond. In his first 15 games with Harrisburg, he's 10 for 49, .204, with 0 extra base hits.Davey and F.P. are right about Harper getting challenged in double A. This is from a Harper-comes-to-town report by John O'Connor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:"He fits in the clubhouse. He's going about his business and handling himself real well," said Harrisburg outfielder Chris Rahl, 27 and a former William and Mary standout. "He's kept a level head about everything."At Class A Hagerstown, where Harper began his professional career this season, he batted .318 with 14 homers, 46 RBIs and 19 stolen bases in 72 games. The Nationals bumped him up to Harrisburg on July 4, and Harper immediately recognized the difference in pitching."It's not like you see one guy that's good, one guy that's OK, one guy that's good, one guy that's mediocre," Harper said. "You're seeing guys all day that are coming out of the pen that are throwing 95, 94 (mph), and spotting up."It's the biggest jump in baseball, Class A to Double-A. Richmond hitting coach Ken Joyce says most Double-A pitchers have two or three "secondary pitches" they throw for strikes, and regularly change speeds. Not so in Class A, where the fastball is king."In Double-A, just because it's a fastball count doesn't mean you're going to see a fastball," Rahl said. "That's the biggest adjustment."But he's definitely got all of the baseball tools, for sure. He's got a ton of power and a really good arm. It's just a matter of him making the adjustments he's got to make, which he'll do."
- Mark'd - Jul 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM
If I were a Phillies fan I would laugh about that Matt Stairs article except I'm a Nats fan so I am crying though I am glad that Matt "try to stay happy" on his $900,000 salary while we watch in misery.
- m20832 - Jul 23, 2011 at 7:29 PM
Get 'em tonight Boys!! Watched the whole game last night and just woke up! JerHar has been hitting the cover off that ball, hasn't he! So many positives from that game! C'mon, it's got to be infectious and carry over to tonight's game!GYFNG!!!
- sjm308 - Jul 23, 2011 at 8:24 PM
I have to agree that there really is no more need to bash Matt Stairs. I am in the camp of letting him go but Mark made excellent points and I respect both he and the FO a lot more than the fandom that inhabits planet NI. That is not to say I don't respect the comments here, its just that the point has been made, remade and made again. Unlike Mark'd, I don't watch Stairs in misery because this is the best team we have fielded since we got here. Stairs is the 25th man on the roster. He has won one game for us. How many games does the 25th man win in a season? We are at 100 games and we have won 49. Last year we won a total of 69. This is so much more fun. Rather than worry about who is not doing well I will chose to look at who is doing well.Will have the best of both worlds today. Emmy Lou Harris at Wolf Trap followed by Charlie and Dave on the radio as I battle the wonderful roads of Virginia back into Maryland. Should be home in time to hit the dvr and watch the beginning of another great win.Go Nats!!
- BinM - Jul 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Somebody has to have called Mr.Z. on this already, but at the risk of being redundant, "the ball won't be carrying very well…". Oh, really? I saw 6RBI's worth of balls that won't carry last night; Hah! I kid because it's fun – Keep up the good work, Mark.
- flynnie - Jul 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM
Drew8 – I really do enjoy the Bryce Harper updates. I'm pulling for him, especially after reading Sheinen's Sunday Magazine feature on him. But . . .he wasn't bored at Hagerstown – he was in a slump which has continued. I don't see him prowling the outfield of NatsPark anytime soon.On the Nats, Espi seems to be struggling of late.
- embittered former proofreaders - Jul 23, 2011 at 9:27 PM
So how does the writer known as Courtney Lofgren prepare an article? "It's very easy, I don't do nothing. I don't use dictionaries or waste time pouring over the copy because the spellchecker will catch everything. I just try to stay happy."
- Sec 3, My Sofa - Jul 23, 2011 at 9:31 PM
Aww, cut her some slack, efp. She poured a hole pot of coffee to right that.
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Impressive results. Would've been nice to have those "normalized" to a "per core" value so one can directly see the overhead
Phoronix: AMD Vishera Multi-Core Scaling Performance
For some additional benchmarks to share this weekend, here are some multi-core scaling numbers from the AMD FX-8350 Vishera that launched a few days ago.
Impressive results. Would've been nice to have those "normalized" to a "per core" value so one can directly see the overhead
Michael, Can you show the settings used for libvpx encoding?
I wonder whether all these are testing the scalability of the CPU or the software...
Also, power consumption?
I'd say this CPU scales quite nicely, a hell of a lot better than i7 when turning off HT. Id say AMD did a pretty good job with their module idea, i just think they should've stuck with a longer pipeline rather than higher clock speed. However, even though going from 6 to 8 cores does seem to scale properly in most of the tests, the overall performance addition you get doesn't quite seem worth it, although I'm not sure how much the FX61xx series will cost. The dumb part is the phenom II x6 is likely going to be still faster than the FX hex cores.
What AMD can definitely do to improve performance, is to improve their branch prediction algos. But that is already a diminishing result problem. The predictions algos are already highly fine tuned. And any more fine tuning is workload dependent.


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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine (right) with Professor Steve Yarbrough at the WLP Reading Series Q&A on November 4, 2014. (Photo by Lauren Feeney '15)
Writing, Literature, and Publishing Reading Series
The Writing, Literature and Publishing Department hosts two reading series, the WLP Reading Series and the Faculty/Alumni Reading Series. Both are free and open to the public.
The WLP Reading Series brings the best writers from around the nation and around the world to Emerson College—thus bringing the wider world of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction directly onto campus for students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding Boston community. While on campus, writers meet with students, visit classes, discuss craft with students, and read from their latest work.
The Faculty/Alumni Reading Series highlights the accomplishments of our distinguished faculty and alumni through joint readings held during the academic year. Each reading invites one faculty member and one alumni to share their published work and engage with both the Emerson and greater Boston communities.
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Ploughshares is an award-winning literary magazine and publisher of new writing based at Emerson College in Boston, MA. The magazine was founded in 1971 and two out of three issues per year are guest edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. To celebrate the launch of each issue, guest editors visit campus to read from their work and discuss their editing process, craft, and more. Visit pshares.org for more information.
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Claudia Rankine
April 29, 2015
Q&A at 4:00 pm | Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount, 555 Washngton Street, Boston, MA 02116
Reading at 6:00 pm | Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount, 555 Washngton Street, Boston, MA 02116
Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric; Don't Let Me Be Lonely; Plot; The End of the Alphabet; and Nothing in Nature is Private. In 2014 she was a National Book Award Finalist and also received Poets & Writers' Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. Rankine co-edited the anthologies The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work is included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry.
Roxane Gay
March 19, 2015
Q&A at 4:00 pm | Cabaret, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Reading at 6:00 pm | Cabaret, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Roxane Gay's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK. She is also the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016.
Richard Blanco
February 3, 2015
Q&A at 4:00 pm | Cabaret, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Reading at 6:00 pm | Bill Bordy Theater, UBank Building, 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
Richard Blanco was named the fifth inaugural poet of the United States following the re-election of President Barack Obama. He has received widespread acclaim for his poetry, earning such accolades as the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Fresh Air. Blanco's latest book, and first memoir, is entitled The Prince of Los Cocuyos.
Jeffrey Renard Allen
October 21, 2014
Q&A at 4:00 pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Reading at 6:00 pm | Bill Bordy Theater, UBank Building, 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
Jeffrey Renard Allen is an accomplished novelist, essayist, and poet. His many accolades include the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize. The New York Times hailed his latest novel, Song of the Shank, as an "imaginative work only a prodigiously gifted risk-taker could produce." Allen is currently an Associate Professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York.
Faculty/Alumni Reading Series
Senior Lecturer Steve Himmer and Mary Helen Specht, MFA '05
March 27, 2015
Reading and Q&A at 6:00 pm | CoLab Room, Iwasaki Library, Walker Building, 3rd Floor, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Steve Himmer is a senior lecturer at Emerson College and editor of the webjournal Necessary Fiction. Himmer's work has appeared in The Millions, Ploughshares online, and the Los Angeles Review. His first novel, The Bee-Loud Glade, was named a 2011 Great Summer Read by NPR's On Point. Himmer recently released his second novel, Fram, and has another novel, Scratch, forthcoming in 2016.
Mary Helen Specht holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has been published in the New York Times, The Colorado Review, and Night Train. She received Night Train's Richard Yates Short Story Award and has been nominated for multiple Puschart Prizes. Specht recently released her debut novel, Migratory Animals.
Senior Writer-in-Residence Richard Hoffman and Anthony D'Aries, BFA '04
December 2, 2014
Reading and Q&A at 4:30 pm | CoLab Room, Iwasaki Library, Walker Building, 3rd Floor, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Richard Hoffman is author of Love & Fury, his newest memoir, Half the House: a Memoir, the poetry collections Without Paradise and Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2009 New England Poetry Club Sheila Motton Book Award, and Emblem, as well as the short story collection Interference & Other Stories. His work, both verse and prose, has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Witness, and other magazines. He has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships in fiction, The Literary Review's Charles Angoff Prize for the essay, and a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellowship Award.
Anthony D'Aries is the author of The Language of Men: A Memoir, winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Awards and named ForeWord Magazine's Memoir of the Year. His essays have appeared in Solstice, The Good Men Project, Shelf Awareness, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. For the past six years, he has taught literacy and creative writing in correctional facilities. He was recently appointed to the board of PEN/New England as a member of the Freedom-to-Write Committee and is currently the nonfiction fellow at The Writers' Room of Boston and an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Regis College.
Adjunct Professor Alden Jones and Joanna Luloff, MFA '01
November 5, 2014
Reading and Q&A at 6:30 pm | White Room, Iwasaki Library, Walker Building, 3rd Floor, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Alden Jones teaches creative fiction and nonfiction at Emerson College. Jones has received extensive praise for her book The Blind Masseuse, which won the Independent Publishers Book Award in Travel Essays, the IndieFab Book of the Year in Travel Essays, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her story collection Unaccompanied Minors won the 2013 New American Fiction Prize.
Joanna Luloff earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. A writer of short stories, Luloff's work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Confrontation, Memorious, and New South. Her first collection of short stories, The Beach at Galle Road, was published in 2012.
Assistant Professor Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Gregg Shapiro, BFA '83
September 24, 2014
Reading and Q&A at 4:30 pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a contributor to the New York Times Magazine where he has authored dozens of features and cover pieces about sexual identity, youth culture, addiction, sports, and dogs. In 2014, The Advocate named Benoit one of the 50 most influential LGBT people in media. He is the author of three books of nonfiction. his latest book, Travels with Casey, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list and was named People and Times book of the week.
Gregg Shapiro is a pop culture journalist, poet and fiction writer whose creative work has been published in a multitude of literary journals including Blithe House Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Illinois Review, Folio, and The Washington Review, to name just a few. Shapiro is a 1999 inductee into Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame and a recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Support OMA (Outmusic Award). He iHe has written for the Bay Area Reporter and GoPride.com, among others. His new collection of short stories is entitled Lincoln Avenue.
2013-2014 Readings
Alice McDermott
WLP Reading Series
April 16, 2014
Q&A at 4pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm | Bill Bordy Auditorium, 216 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing and the WLP Reading Series will feature award-winning author Alice McDermott. There will be a Q&A with McDermott at 4pm and a reading of her work at 6pm.
Alice McDermott is the author of six novels. She has won numerous awards, including the National Book Award and the American Book Award. McDermott has also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. McDermott currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Her latest novel is entitled Someone.
Update, January 2014: Alice McDermott has been named a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her reading on March 12 has been rescheduled for April 16 due to the Awards Ceremony, which will take place at the New School in New York on March 13.
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Jean Thompson
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Craft Talk at 4pm | Charles Beard Room
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Jean Thompson is the author of six novels, including The Humanity Project (Penguin, forthcoming April 2014), and The Year We Left Home (Simon & Schuster, 2011). She is also the author of five short story collections—notably Who Do You Love, a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction. The New York Times' Helen Shulman calls The Humanity Project "...ambitious and ... captivating... luscious and evocative...Thompson is a writer attuned to the callousness of 21st-century society, its comedic elements, its misguided efforts to right itself, its often tragic results."
Andrew Ladd, MFA '10
Book Launch and Reading
January 23, 2014
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building, 2nd Floor, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Ploughshares hosts a reading and book launch party for Blog Editor and Emerson MFA Alum (2010), Andrew Ladd to celebrate the publication of his debut novel, What Ends, winner of the AWP Award Series for the Novel and was published on January 20, 2014 by New Issues Press.
Hilton Als
WLP Reading Series
December 5, 2013
Q&A at 4pm | Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center
Reading & Book Signing at 6pm | Black Box Theatre, Paramount Center
Hilton Als is an essayist and theatre critic for The New Yorker. He has also written for The Village Voice, Vibe, and The Nation. His work has garnered multiple awards, including the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing. Als has taught at Smith College, Wesleyan University, and Yale. His latest book is entitled White Girls (McSweeney's, 2013).
Update, January 2014: Hilton Als has been named a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Philip Levine
WLP Reading Series
November 4, 2013
Q&A at 4pm | Charles Beard Room, Little Building
Reading & Book Signing at 6pm | Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St.
"Philip Levine, by virtue of having won two National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, is arguably our most important living poet," said Professor Steve Yarbrough while introducing Levine. "As Poet Laureate of the United States, he did much to communicate his passion for the art of poetry. He is, quite simply, a national treasure."
Levine has published more than 20 collections of poetry and is widely known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Simple Truth and collections Ashes: Poems New and Old and What Work Is.
Read more about Levine's visit to campus »
Peter Ho Davies
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
October 10, 2013
Craft Talk at 4pm
Social for Emerson Community at 5pm
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm
Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novel The Welsh Girl, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and the short story collections The Ugliest House in the World, and Equal Love. His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Independent, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Awards. He was recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts.
Peter Ho Davies with (from left to right) Janet Silver, Ladette Randolph (Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief and MFA fiction faculty), and Margot Livesey (Ploughshares Fiction Editor and MFA fiction faculty).
2012-2013 Readings
Major Jackson
Ploughshares and WLP Reading Series
March 6, 2013
Reading and Book Signing at 8pm | Bill Bordy Theater
Major Jackson was the guest editor of the Spring 2013 issue of Ploughshares. He is a poet, professor, and author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company and Hoops, both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Julie Otsuka
WLP Reading Series and Ploughshares
February 7, 2013
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 8pm
Julie Otsuka is the author of the novels When the Emperor Was Devine and The Buddha in the Attic. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian American Literary Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Buddha in the Attic was also a finalist for the National Book Award.
Tobias Wolff
WLP Reading Series and Ploughshares
November 19, 2012
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 8pm
Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School; the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army; and four collections of short stories. He is a faculty member at Stanford University and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Adam Zagajewski
WLP Reading Series and Ploughshares
November 15, 2012
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 8pm
Adam Zagajewski is Poland's foremost living poet and widely read essayist. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Neustandt International Prize for Literature and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His most recent collection of poems is The Unseen Hand.
Patricia Hampl
Ploughshares and WLP Reading Series
October 4, 2012
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 8pm
Patricia Hampl's essays, travel pieces, fiction, poetry, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Best American Essays, and Best American Short Stories. Her memoirs The Florist's Daughter and A Romantic Education, in addition to I Could Tell You Stories, a collection of essays on memory and imagination, have established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing in the past 25 years. She is a Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
2011-2012 Readings
Carl Phillips
WLP Reading Series
April 11, 2012
Reading at 6pm
Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Double Shadow and Speak Low, both finalists for the National Book Award. Other honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named Chancellor in 2007.
Nick Flynn
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
April 4, 2012
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm
Ploughshares hosted Nick Flynn, poet, memoirist, and guest editor of the Spring 2012 issue. Flynn answered questions from students and faculty in a Q&A moderated by MFA professor and Ploughshares poetry editor John Skoyles. Later in the evening, he read from his introduction to the Spring 2012 issue, poems new and familiar, and new work from his forthcoming memoir, The Reenactments, about the making of Being Flynn, a film based on his memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.
Nick Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry, including The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, Blind Huber, and Some Ether; a play; and two celebrated memoirs, including The Ticking is the Bomb. He has worked as a ship's captain, an electrician, and as a case-worker with homeless adults in Boston. His poetry, nonfiction, and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, NPR's This American Life, and elsewhere.
The Art of Translation
WLP Reading Series
March 21, 2012
Co-hosted by WLP faculty Maria Koundoura and Yu-jin Chang, speakers included Chaucer scholar Sheila Fisher, Norton Critical Edition translator of Dante's Inferno Michael Palma, and Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translator's Association-recipient Peter Filkins.
WLP Faculty Reading: Margot Livesey, Gail Mazur, Pablo Medina
WLP Reading Series
February 22, 2012
Margot Livesey is the author of a short story collection and seven novels, most recently The Flight of Gemma Hardy. She has taught in numerous writing programs and has received grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Gail Mazur is the author of six books of poems. Her fifth collection, Zeppo's First Wife won a Massachusetts Book Award and was finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Patterson Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection is Figures in a Landscape.
Pablo Medina is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA, and the Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund.
Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
WLP Reading Series
February 8, 2012
Introduced and moderated by MFA Professor Doug Whynott, celebrated literary journalist Tracy Kidder and his editor of over 30 years, Richard Todd, discussed their writer-editor relationship; Good Prose, their forthcoming co-written book on the craft of literary nonfiction; and Kidder's writing.
Tracy Kidder is the author of nine books of nonfiction including Strength in What Remains, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, House, Among Schoolchildren, and The Soul of a New Machine, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1992. His essays have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, including The New Yorker, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.
Richard Todd was executive editor of Atlantic Monthly and edited his own imprint at Houghton Mifflin.
WLP Faculty: DeWitt Henry, Richard Hoffman, Murray Schwartz
WLP Reading Series
November 30, 2011
Emerson WLP faculty read from their work.
DeWitt Henry is the author of two memoirs—Sweet Dreams: A Family History and Safe Suicide—and of The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, winner of the Peter Yaylor Prize for the Novel. As founding editor of Ploughshares he won a Massachusetts Commonwealth Award in 1992.
Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir and the poetry collections Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Matton Award from the New England Poetry Club, and his latest, Emblem. He currently serves as Chair of PEN New England.
Murray Schwartz is a Shakespeare specialist with interests in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and Holocaust studies. He co-edited Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays, and has also published Memory and Desire: Aging, Literature, and Psychoanalysis; A Thematic Introduction to Shakespeare, Where is Literature?, and Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars.
Ploughshares 40th Anniversary Celebration
November 14, 2011
Paramount Theatre
On November 14th, Ploughshares editors, staff, honored guests, Emerson WLP students and faculty, and a few hundred fans of literature gathered to celebrate the history of the magazine and its place in literary Boston.
Denis Leary '79, the evening's host, began by reflecting on the influence of James Randall as a mentor while he studied at Emerson; editor and MFA professor John Skoyles read some of Leary's early poetry. Readers shared some of the work Ploughshares is most proud to have published: Wally Lamb read from Raymond Carver's "A Small Good Thing," Sue Miller read from Alice Munro's "Characters," Andre Dubus III read his father's "Rose," chef Ming Tsai read three poems about food by Kevin Young, and Emerson President Lee Pelton the late Richard Yates's "A Compassionate Love." Alice Hoffman, guest editor of the Winter 2011-12 issue of Ploughshares read Grace Paley, and additional readings followed by Cam Neely and novelist and Boston Noir editor Dennis Lehane.
Special Guests of the Ploughshares 40th Anniversary Event. Top row, left to right: Alice Hoffman, Emerson President M. Lee Pelton, John Skoyles, Denis Leary '79, Cam Neely, Dennis Lehane. Front row, left to right: Pamela Painter, Ming Tsai, Andre Dubus III, Karen Allen, and Ladette Randolph.
Martha Serpas
WLP Reading Series
November 2, 2011
Reading and Book Signing, 6pm
Martha Serpas is the author of two collections of poetry, Côte Blanche and The Dirty Side of the Storm. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Southeast Review, and Image. She recently taught at Yale Divinity School and at the University of Tampa, where she served as the editor of Tampa Review. A native of south Louisiana, she remains active in efforts to restore Louisiana's wetlands. She currently works as a trauma chaplain and teaches at the University of Houston.
Bernice McFadden
WLP Reading Series
October 12, 2011
Reading and Book Signing, 6pm
Bernice McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including The Warmest December, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Loving Donovan, winner of the 2004 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Fiction Honor Award; and Sugar. Her most recent novel, Glorious, received the BCALA Literary Award in fiction.
DeWitt Henry and Ploughshares 40th Anniversary
September 30, 2011
Talk and Readings, 5pm to 7pm | Charles Beard Room
Ploughshares co-founding editor and Emerson Writing, Literature and Publishing Professor DeWitt Henry (and guest editor of the Fall 2011 issue) led a celebration of the magazine and its history, with readings and talks by friends and colleagues.
2010-2011 Readings
Colm Tóbín
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
April 7, 2011
Q&A, Reading, and Book Signing
Ploughshares hosted Spring 2011 guest editor Colm Tóbín, who answered student questions at a Q&A moderated by Christopher Castellani, novelist and creative director at Grub Street, a creative writing center located next door to Emerson. Following the Q&A, Tóbín read from his work.
Colm Tóbín is the author of six novels, and most recently a collection of short stories entitled The Empty Family and a collection of essays on Henry James called All a Novelist Needs. He is the recipient of the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Dublin IMPAC Prize, the LA Times Novel of the Year, and more.
Terrance Hayes
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
December 2, 2010
Q&A at 4pm
Reading and Book Signing at 6pm
Ploughshares and Emerson hosted Terrance Hayes, newly-named National Book Award Winner and guest editor for the Winter 2010-011 issue of Ploughshares, for an open Q&A moderated by WLP Professor Kim McLarin and a reading of his work.
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, which received the National Book Award in 2010; Wind in a Box; Hip Logic, which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award; and Muscular Music, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. About his work, Cornelius Eady has said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world."
Claudia Emerson
WLP Reading Series
November 3, 2010
Reading and Book Signing
Claudia Emerson is a contributing editor to Shenandoah and has published four books of poetry, including Late Wife, which received the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Her most recent collection is Figure Studies. She teaches English at the University of Mary Washington. During her time at Emerson, she visited classes, read from both published and in-progress work about the controversy over plagues of uranium that are affecting her hometown, and offered advice to student writers.
David Shields
WLP Reading Series
October 13, 2010
David Shields a fiction-writer-turned-essayist, is the author of fifteen books, including New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead; Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His most recent book is Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, in which he argues that Americans live in a completely "mediated, artificial, simulated culture…[which] renders us somewhat numb and bored" and was named one of the best books of 2010. After the reading, Shields encouraged the audience—students and faculty alike—to challenge his claims.
Jim Shepard
Ploughshares Guest Editor Visit
October 12, 2010
Q&A, Reading, and Book Signing
Guest editor for the Fall 2010 issue of Ploughshares, Jim Shepard read for Emerson students, faculty, and staff.
The author of six novels and two short story collections, Shepard's collection, Like You'd Understand, Anyway, won the Story Prize in 2008 and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. Words used to describe Shepard's work most often include: strange, bizarre, and just plain weird. He has a natural gift for exploring the abnormal, giving his work a distinctive edginess that compels many readers.
Sarah Chaves (BFA '11) was awarded a Fulbright 2015-2016 Grant. Chaves will spend one year, fully-funded, in Portugal working on her memoir.
Roxane Gay visited campus on March 19 for a question-and-answer session with students followed by a reading of some of her essays. Both events are part of the Writing, Literature & Publishing Reading Series.
MFA '98 Roseanne Montillo's article about 14-year old serial killer Jesse Pomeroy appeared on CBS News Crimsider. Montillo's latest book The Wilderness of Ruin explores the hunt for the child killer during Boston's Gilded Age and the Great Fire of 1872.
MFA '99 Olen Steinhauer's new book, All the Old Knives was recently reviewed by The New York Times.
Professor Jessica Treadway is featured in the Boston Globe for her new novel "Lacy Eye." In the Q&A with the Globe, Treadway discusses her writing habits, including writing drafts in longhand.
A group of nine young, emerging artists from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín recently presented their artwork at Emerson College Los Angeles and are visiting Emerson College in Boston this month.
Creative Writing MFA Stephen Shane (2015) and his colleague David Knight created a short documentary on Boston busing called Desegregated, Yet Unequal, and it was recently named an Editors' Pick by The Atlantic.
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Professor Steve Yarbrough has been elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and, in addition, will receive the 2015 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction this spring from the same organization.
WLP alum and writer Thomas Page McBee's memoir Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man was named on Publisher's Weekly's "Best Books of 2014."
Ladette Randolph's new memoir Leaving the Pink House was featured on Oprah.com as a suggested memoir. Randolph teaches in WLP and is Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares literary magazine.
Greg Nichols (MFA '11) released his first book, Striking Gridiron, A Town's Pride and a Team's Shot at Glory During the Biggest Strike in American History. The book was named a Junior Library Guild Fall 2014 Selection.
Lecturer Tamera Marko's writing collective with Emerson maintenance workers from Latin America and undergraduates presented a bilingual presentation: "Proyecto Carrito II: When the Student Receives an 'A' and the Worker Gets Fired: Driving our Own Narrative" at the Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Recent MA in Publishing & Writing alumni collaborated to launch a new literary genre journal called Strangelet. Alumni include Executive Editor Casey Brown (MA '13), Managing Editor Leah Thompson (MA '12), Production Editor Franco Alvarado (MA '13), and Creative Director Chandra Asar (MA '12).
WLP Professor Megan Marshall and the emersonWRITES program participate in the launch and unveiling of Boston as the country's first Literary Cultural District.
Michelle Bailat-Jones (MFA '05) won the inaugral Christopher Doheny award for her novel Fog Island Mountains. The award recognizes a book-lenth work exploring the experience of serious illness and includes a $10,000 prize and publication and promotion of the book.


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Thread: Replacing the hated warp drive
August 6th, 2012, 04:37 AM #61
A theory can be tested. A speculation hasn't even gotten to that point.
Real science is figuring out the unknown not making a big deal about the known. Even is quantum tunneling can work that does not mean it can work with macroscopic objects. So all FTL methods in fiction are over the line into the UNKNOWN. They may all be IMPOSSIBLE. So a writer can either make a good story with one of them or not.
Originally Posted by Steven L Jordan
none of which can be extrapolated from current scientific theories or experimentation.
August 6th, 2012, 10:26 AM #62
August 7th, 2012, 09:33 AM #63
August 7th, 2012, 10:08 AM #64
My opinion is that, though we can't account for everything, I would still lean towards what is most likely. I think he and I disagree on that point (or, perhaps, exactly what is most likely).
August 7th, 2012, 03:21 PM #65
August 7th, 2012, 08:52 PM #66
August 7th, 2012, 09:08 PM #67
Ah, there's the psikey we know. Psikey, please do not bring up the subject we told you not to bring up any more.
August 7th, 2012, 09:36 PM #68
August 7th, 2012, 09:56 PM #69
August 8th, 2012, 09:20 AM #70
August 8th, 2012, 09:25 AM #71
August 8th, 2012, 07:07 PM #72
Da capo.
I never do understand discusions like this. What is "impossible"? Any novel is full of "impossible" things, because the people portrayed do not and did not exist, or if they perchance did exist, did not do the things portrayed. That is why we invented the word fiction. Fiction is imagined untruths portrayed as if true.
Science fiction is fiction in which some of the things portrayed are not possible within the world as we currently understand it, but are nonetheless presented as in accordance with the world of natural law as those in the tale understand it. There is, so far as I can see, zero necessity to construct an explicit, readily comprehensible bridge between our current understanding of the laws of nature and that of the world within the tale. Indeed, any such bridge is itself a fiction, by definition.
So you either have to write "science fiction" stories in which nothing whatever happens that is not within our present understanding of the laws of nature, which is possible but extremely cramping and needlessly limiting, or you have to just accept some handwaving--which is fine, unless the handwaving happens to be essential to the core of the tale (which is rare indeed).
Fiction is a way of exploring the human condition and of expanding our individual experiences of Life, the Universe, and Everything, of living lives and having experiences impossible within the scope of our real, constrained lives. "Warp drives" or the numerous variants thereof (from inertialess drives to hyperspace) are, as someone said, just the equivalent of automobiles in contemporary settings or sailing ships in historical settings. There may be nut cases who read historical fiction and go postal if the exact details of the sail construction are not set forth in excrutiating detail, but they are just that: nut cases. The vast majority of readers want only this from the tale: to know what happened to whom and how they reacted to it.
And to presume that our present knowledge of the laws of nature somehow bounds or limits what we might be able to do in a mere century (look at history, and consider the concept of geometric growth), much less a millennium or so, seems--to me, at least--flat-out blind.
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August 11th, 2012, 04:09 PM #73
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You know I was wondering why so few had even thought of this.I was actually talking with my father about this subject, about how humans could accomplish such a feat by the grace of science alone and this was the eventual answer we reached.
August 12th, 2012, 01:59 PM #74
August 12th, 2012, 05:35 PM #75
This entire conversation has been rather meta, and unsatisfying. There are some tense moments, polarized positions, and little headway made by anyone. owlcroft expresses some of the same misgivings in his post.
At this point I'd suggest to create another thread altogether, with a similar subject but different premise.
(Take this suggestion as you like.)


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