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The application for admission to a Kogod Graduate degree program is available online only. To begin the application process, please create an account along with a username and password. These credentials will provide access to your online application and also a personalized information page throughout the admissions process.
As you complete your application, we recommend saving changes on each page as you work. Once you submit your application, your responses will remain final, but you can still access your account to receive updates regarding the status of your application.
Software Requirements
We recommend accessing the online application using Internet Explorer. If you encounter technical problems with the online application, please report the issue to Hobson's technical support by clicking on the link within the application page.
Personalized Information Page
A personalized information page will be created for you upon completion of the online interest form or upon initiation of your application for admission. We encourage you to use this page to learn more about your program of interest and to actively manage the status of your application materials. Updates will be made to your application check list upon receipt, so it is the most reliable and efficient way to confirm the status of your application.
Deadlines & Decision Timeline
In order to ensure that your application receives full consideration, your completed application, as well as all required documents and official test scores, must be on file in the Kogod Graduate Admissions Office by the application submission dates outlined below.
If your application is not completed by the application submission date during the round you wish to be considered, your materials will automatically be moved to the next round for consideration. You will be notified by email should this apply to you.
You may view the current status of your application through the online application system or your personalized information page. When a decision is made, your status will be updated to reflect the admissions decision.
Note that due to INS regulations, we strongly recommend that International applicants seeking an F-1 or J-1 visa submit complete applications as early as possible.
MBA Deadlines
Admission to all MBA programs (Full-time, Professional, dual degrees) is offered in the Fall term only.
International applicants and those who wish to be considered for merit scholarship are encouraged to apply during Rounds 1 and 2.
Students applying directly from undergraduate programs with no prior full-time work experience are not eligible for consideration for the MBA program. Internship experience is not considered to be equivalent to full-time professional work experience.
Fall 2015
MBA admissions decisions are made within rounds as detailed:
MBA Round
Application Submission
Decision Notification
Round 1
November 15
January 15
Round 2*
February 1
April 1
Round 3
May 1
June 15
*International applicant and merit scholarship priority consideration deadline
Applications will be reviewed after the May 1, 2015 deadline on a space-available basis. All applications for both MBA programs should be submitted by July 15, 2015.
MS Deadlines
Admission to the MS Accounting, MS Finance, MS Real Estate and MS Taxation programs is offered in the Fall and Spring terms. Admission to MS Marketing and MS Sustainability Management is offered in the fall term only.
Decisions on all MS program applicants are made on a rolling basis. Applicants can typically expect notification within four to six weeks of receiving confirmation that an application is complete and ready for review. Applicants may view the current status of their application through the online application portal.
Spring 2015
November 15 – International Applicant Deadline
December 10 – Final Domestic Applicant Deadline
Fall 2015
February 20 – International and Scholarship Priority Deadline
May 1 – Final Scholarship Consideration Deadline
All applications for Fall 2015 MS admission must be submitted by July 15, 2015.
Application Requirements
Full-time work experience is not a requirement for application to the MS programs. Applicants are not required to have completed an undergraduate degree in a field related to the MS program. However, some programs may include pre-requisite courses that should be completed prior to application, or in some cases, may be completed during the first semester of MS enrollment at Kogod. Please review individual program requirements under the Graduate Programs section of this website prior to application.
A current copy of your resume is required and must be uploaded in the employment section of the online application.
Personal Statement
A personal statement is required and must be uploaded in the online application. We encourage you to use the personal statement as an opportunity to highlight your strengths and compatibility with Kogod.
Letters of Recommendation
Two letters of recommendation are required.
MBA applicants must submit professional recommendations, and when possible, should include the recommendation of an immediate supervisor.
MS applicants may submit academic and/or professional recommendations.
Recommenders may submit their forms electronically and are encouraged to do so. Once you have identified recommenders, you may enter their names and contact information via the online application system. They will be contacted directly with instructions and provided access to the electronic evaluation form. Once their evaluation form and letter have been submitted, an email notification will be sent confirming receipt.
If your recommender cannot complete an electronic form, you may download a copy of the Recommendation for Graduate Study Form in the online application center. Your recommender must then complete the form and return it in a signed, sealed envelope directly to the Kogod Graduate Admissions Office. Alternatively, the submission may be made by email to email@example.com with the subject line 'Recommendation Enclosed'.
Transcripts detailing your academic history and record must be provided for all undergraduate and/or graduate institutions attended. Transcripts for courses taken as part of a study abroad program (if listed on your undergraduate transcript) or for courses completed for professional development purposes do not require separate submission.
There are two options for transcript submission:
- You may upload unofficial copies of your transcript(s) directly to the academic background section within the online application. The unofficial document(s) will be used by the Admissions Committee for the preliminary review process. If your application is selected to move past the preliminary review stage, you will be notified that official transcripts are required, and your admissions decision may not be issued until they are received.
- Alternatively, you may choose not to upload any unofficial documents and may indicate that you have requested official transcripts be sent to Kogod from your prior institution(s). Official transcripts sent directly from your prior institution may be submitted electronically or via mail
- Electronic submissions should be sent to Kogod Graduate Admissions at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Paper submissions should be mailed to Kogod Graduate Admissions at the following mailing address:
Kogod Graduate Admissions
American University's Kogod School of Business
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Kogod School of Business, Room 115
Washington, DC 20016-8044
Additional Information for Current American University Students and Alumni
Official copies your transcript must be requested directly from the Office of the Registrar Student Record Services. We are not able to secure this document for you so please be sure to review the instructions online detailing how to request your official transcript.
If you are applying for admission prior to graduating from an undergraduate program, you will be required to submit an official copy of your transcript upon completion of the program in order to confirm degree conferral.
Test Scores
A valid GMAT or GRE score is required to be considered for admission. There is no preference for a particular exam and applicants are encouraged to select the exam with which they are most confident. GMAT or GRE scores may not be more than five years old. Please arrange for your official score report to be sent directly to the Kogod School of Business.
- Kogod GMAT score report codes:
Full-time MBA (RN4-J4-01)
Professional MBA (RN4-J4-16)
MSAn (RN4-J4-07)
- Kogod GRE score report codes:
All Graduate Programs 4357
GMAT/GRE Waiver
MBA, MS Finance, and MS Marketing program applicants may request a GMAT/GRE waiver per the waiver requirements detailed on individual program websites. Graduate Certificate program applicants are not required to submit a GMAT or GRE score.
If you believe you qualify for a GMAT/GRE waiver, you must initiate an online application and download the Waiver Request Form within the online application. Waiver requests may be submitted prior to completing the online application. Should your waiver request be declined, you will be notified as soon as possible so that you may schedule and begin to prepare for your exam.
GRE and GMAT test prep courses are available through American University. For more information, please click here.
Test Optional Admission
MS Accounting, MS Analytics, MS Real Estate, and MS Taxation program applicants may elect to apply test optional and will be required to complete an evaluative admissions interview with the faculty program director or appointed faculty member in lieu of submitting a GMAT/GRE score.
Applicants eligible to apply test optional must have:
- Completed an undergraduate or graduate business degree from an AACSB-accredited institution
- Completed an undergraduate or graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution
Interviews are required for admission to the Kogod MBA and MS Marketing programs. Evaluative interviews are reserved for candidates whose applications have passed the initial screening phase of the application process and are offered by invitation only. Candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted to schedule an interview date and time. Applicants are encouraged to conduct their interviews in person however we understand this may not be possible for all applicants. Applicants who reside beyond the DC Metropolitan area or abroad will be interviewed by Skype, and in some cases, provided with the alternative to interview by phone.
Application Fee
A non-refundable fee of $100 USD is required. Applications without fees will not be processed. Fees can be paid online upon submission of the application form, or via paper check sent to Kogod Graduate Admissions. Application fee waivers are offered to:
- Active duty members or veterans of the US military
- Active or returned Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, or Teach for America Volunteers
- City Year corps members, staff, and alumni
- American University employees
- Dual-degree applicants who have already paid an application fee to SIS or WCL
Dual Degree Admission
Kogod offers dual degree programs with the School of International Service and the Washington College of Law. Candidates seeking admission to a dual-degree program must receive admission from each of the degree programs separately. The Admissions Committees from each school do not collaborate on the decision-making process. For additional information regarding dual degree application, including requirements and a recommend submission timeline, please click here.
Applicants seeking re-admission must submit a new application form, application fee, as well as an updated resume and personal statement. We also encourage you to submit any additional information you would like to have considered. If you completed a full application but did not enroll for any reason within the last two years, the transcripts, letters of recommendation and test scores you submitted will be transferred to your new application. Applications for re-admission are subject to current admissions standards; even if you were previously offered admission, repeated offers of admission are not guaranteed. Applicants who were denied admission are not eligible for readmission during the same application term and may reapply during the next available term of enrollment.
Deferrals may be granted to admitted students for the next term of enrollment. Requests for deferral must be made in writing to the Kogod Admissions Office. Deferrals are offered at the discretion of the Admissions Committee, and are not guaranteed. Deferring students will be required to submit the enrollment deposit, as well as an additional deferral fee, to confirm their place in the following enrolling class.


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|Property type
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|7 nights
Outside peak season, if you wish to rent the whole house but there are only 2/4 of you we will charge you a 1 or 2 bedroom rate. This luxurious 3 bedroom village house is perfectly located in the centre of the popular village of Capestang on the Canal du Midi in South West France. The village square is a two minute walk to the left and the canal du midi a two minute walk to the right. The spacious living area includes a large open plan kitchen-dining room, comfortable lounge and separate TV room. There is also a shower room on the ground floor. On the first floor there is a large en-suite with day bed for sleepless children and two further bedrooms, one with twin beds and one with a double bed and both having access to a with a shared large shower room. Outside, the front courtyard has dining furniture and a BBQ - perfect for al fresco dining on the warm french evenings! There is also a summer kitchen for covered dining for those wishing to eat in the shade. Through the wooden gates the private walled garden is where the private pool and a 12 seater cinema (in the old "wine cuves") are situated.
Maison du Monde is an absolute gem, located in the heart of the beautiful village of Capestang. The house has been lovingly restored, keeping some of the original features and combining them with the modern facilities required for a great stay. The kitchen comes supplied with every utensil that a budding cook may need and the facilities are perfect. The TV room/lounge comes equiped with a very large number of books and DVDs that my kids really enjoyed taking out to the converted cave, which is now a fully functioning cinema complete with original cinema seats. The bedrooms are of addequate size and the three bathrooms/showers are perfect for a large family. The outside space was heaven and gave our family a safe and secure area to play in. The pool area of which the picture do not do justice was fantastic for lazing around in private surroundings. Maison du Monde is situated in the heart of the beautiful village of Capestang, minutes away by foot from the main square, Canal du Midi and 2 supermarkets. This is a fantastic part of the world and we have spent many years coming here. Beverly is a great host and is always on hand to answer questions and queries that you may have. The house has been converted by someone who loves this place and you can feel it as soon as you walk behind the imposing gates. We can not recommend Maison du Monde highly enough and we hope this review is helpful to anyone coming to stay here. We look so forward to returning in the future and Thank Beverly and her team for everything. Evan & Brendan, Dublin, Ireland
our week in Capestang was wonderful, Beverleys house was a perfect accomodation in the center of Capestang where we had close to a fantastic market that was two a week, that was also good was that there was a deal at close quarters and even an ATM on the corner which was important to us. There were also several restaurants on near the hous which was perfect for us as did tours every day and wanted to have dinner near our accommodation. The house we rented was amazing in many senses and we enjoyed just being there. Our warmest testimonials. it felt like coming home every day we came to the house after our excursions.our week in Capestang was wonderful, Beverleys house was a perfect accomodation in the center of Capestang where we had close to a fantastic market that was two a week, that was also good was that there was a deal at close quarters and even an ATM on the corner which was important to us. There were also several restaurants on near the hous which was perfect for us as did tours every day and wanted to have dinner near our accommodation. The house we rented was amazing in many senses and we enjoyed just being there. Our warmest testimonials. it felt like coming home every day we came to the house after our excursions.
We loved this house the moment we opened the door. The photographs do not do it justice. The pool is bigger than we had expected and it was a comfortable 23 degrees .The house is spacious and beautifully furnished. It has everything you could possibly need, including a great library of books, DVDs and videos for all ages. We loved the location of the house as it is so close to the village square and also the canal.
The property was spotless and we were looked after by the lovely guardienne Marianna who could not have been more helpful and our kids adored. Beverly the owner had provided us with loads of really useful information before we arrived which helped us make the most of our stay.
We loved the delicious offerings from the Boulangerie, river swimming at Roquebrun, market mornings in the square at Capestang and at Narbonne, where Les Grandes Halles, food market is definitely worth a visit. We even got to see the Tour de France when it passed close by.
A super holiday, one we would love to repeat.
Having spent 25 years renting holiday homes in the wilds of the French countryside this was a bit of an experiment, it went well.
Instead of a 30 minute round trip for bread & croissants it was 2 minutes,when I realised I'd forgotten the charcoal for the BBQ it took a minute to repair my embarrassment from the mini supermarket, no one had to get up early to go to the market - it came to you, and instead of one glass of wine in a restaurant it was a bottle. (Though I'm not sure that last one was really a good thing?).
The house was decorated to high standard and the kitchen had everything, but most importantly the beds were comfy. Also there was enough room to lose all 3 children, late afternoons often saw one watching a movie on the big TV, another on their laptop in the lounge utilising the wifi to talk with friends back home on facebook, or chilling by the pool, or catching the last rays of the day in the courtyard.
There is plenty to do in the surrounding area and we had great days out to Carcassonne, Montpellier & Narbonne(don't miss the fantastic indoor market). There are many of places to taste wine if you are so inclined, I recommend "Domaine de la Provenquiere", ask Mallory for directions.
The village has a couple of bars and several restaurants, our favourite was "Le Provence", at the bottom of the square.
In conclusion, great house, great holiday, may well go back in the future.
We had a thoroughly enjoyable time in Maison du Monde. All the home comforts and more. The house inside and out is well maintained and equipped. The location in the centre of Capestang is excellent, 2 minutes to the bakers for fresh bread in the morning. The main square at one end of the street and Canal du Midi at the other - great for early morning runs followed by a cool down swim in the pool. There are lots of lovely places to visit nearby, pity we only had time to visit a few. The beach at Vendres is beautiful and quieter than Valras. Carcassone well worth a day trip. We'll definitely recommend to friends and would love to return. Thanks to both Beverley and Mallory in Capestang for all the tips and recommendations before and during our stay.
Smack dab in the middle of Capestang - a wonderful little town near Beziers - with the nice square and dominant church in one direction and the Canal du Midi in the other. It's perfect whether you like to sit in a hammock outside the café and sip a glass of rosé or you prefer to jog for an hour in the shade along the tree lined river bank.
The house has two separate courts. One with a pool, a dining area and a quirky cinema (!) and the other with a summer kitchen/barbecue.
It's great to have two totally different outside areas, depending on mood and sunshine.
The house is quite big and the master bedroom is a joy to live in. And if you like to cook - everything you need (and then some) is in the cupboards and drawers of the kitchen. The property is surrounded by high walls and feels totally private, although it is located by a small but busy street. As a base for your Languedoc experience, Capestang is IT. And I don't think we could find a better house in town. Certainly not an alternative with a more service minded, positive and responsive owner (and that goes for her local right arm, neighbor and "caretaker" too!).
Capestang is in the heart of Cathar country, located between the towns of Narbonne and Beziers and is on the Canal du Midi. Beziers being the nearest airport. The area is filled with fortified villages and ancient ruins. Fantastic sights nearby include Minerve, Carcassonne, Aigues Mortes, Beziers, Cap d'agde, Narbonne, Rennes le Château. Spain, Pyrenees, Coullioure and many more. The two nearest beaches are Valras Plage and Narbonne plage. These have sandy beaches that run for miles. There are great seafood restaurants and ice cream parlours. For children there is the animal reserve at Sigean, Agro branching, ice skating, canoeing and much more. For foodies there are the great food markets and the famous indoor food market at Narbonne. Antique Faires at Beziers, Montpellier and Avignon are all close. Vide Greniers (car boot sales) are great for finding antiques or collectables. Golf is nearby and for those looking to relax you can sit by the canal and watch the boats go by.
Other Activities: Agro branching, Canoeing, ice skating, skateboarding park, river pool nearby
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|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
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|Event Price
Early Summer
4 Jan 2015 - 3 Jul 2015
Changeover Day: Saturday
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
High Summer
4 Jul 2015 - 28 Aug 2015
Changeover Day: Saturday
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Late Summer
29 Aug 2015 - 25 Sep 2015
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
Late season
26 Sep 2015 - 25 Mar 2016
7 night minimum stay
for 7 nights
|No additional mandatory fees
|Refundable Damage Deposit
Long term lets considered. Winter week and montly lets do not cover electricity. You will need to pay just for what you use.
Payment can be made in Euro. Please ask for details if you wish to pay with Euro.
* Approximate monthly price. Actual pricing will depend on the days of the month you stay.
Please Note: The owner of this property accepts payment in the original currency specified (GBP), before use of conversion tool. The conversion tool is provided for your convenience only. The owner may accept other currencies if specifically agreed in advance.
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King Street
Extended festival benefits local business
The Newtown Festival is one of Sydney's cultural highlights – a yearly pageant of music, arts and family fun that attracts over 80,000 visitors from the inner-west and across Sydney.
For ambitious local creatives who make their commercial debut at the festival, it has often proved the gateway to success. This year, for the first time the festival expanded into Newtown Festival Week, enabling more local venues to be part of the action with events, gigs, and workshops highlighting Newtown's cultural diversity.
Newtown Festival is the main fundraiser for the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, which provides social support services for disadvantaged people in the area. "Since the festival embodies the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre's core values, it seemed a natural step to invite some of the most popular local venues to share in the celebrations," festival director, Sue Andersen says.
The 2014 theme was 'Newtown Republic', a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the neighbourhood's distinctive character, and from 1 to 9 November most of Newtown's best-known venues staged events. Alpha House Gallery, The Marlborough Hotel, Corridor, Kelly's on King, No Lights, No Lycra, The Stinking Bishops and many more took part.
Monsterthreads is just one creative business whose rise to international success spurred from selling t-shirts at the Newtown Festival 8 years ago.
"Newtown Festival presents a great opportunity for small creative businesses to get involved and get a leg up," co-founder Mark Marriot says.
"Where else can you get face-to-face exposure to tens of thousands of friendly people for an incredibly small fee? The idea started modestly. It was a side project to earn some extra cash for me and my partner Gail, while we were completing uni. We had no idea how far it would take us ... In the early days we'd get friends to make us artworks, print t-shirts on our living room table and sell them on weekends for $25 at local markets.
"When we attended our first Newtown festival we sold out of almost every t-shirt style by the end of day, and decided then and there to aim at opening a shop in Newtown. A couple of years later we opened our boutique on King Street and, following the success of that store, we opened 4 more in other areas and now stock scores of boutiques around the country and internationally. Our range has also expanded to other art-related products – homewares, stationery, jewellery, sneakers. The point of difference is that each product is a collaboration between us and a leading illustrator, street or graphic artist.
"We might not be where we are today if it wasn't for the Newtown Festival. It helped us build up funds from the sales of hundreds of tees each year, it helped to get locals behind our brand, and most significantly, it built our confidence in our concept to the point where we took the plunge and opened our first store."
For more about Newtown Festival, visit newtowncentre.org/festival.
The City supports and produces various initiatives for retailers, including precinct-based festivals and events. Find out about our next village retail program, Christmas in the Villages.
Newtown, Erskineville, Camperdown
and St Peters
With its close proximity to the city centre and long held reputation for drawing the city's fringe, bohemian and alternative crowd, this village offers business opportunities in retail, hospitality and entertainment.
As the first suburban shopping centre outside the city centre, King Street is lined with hundreds of stores, cafés and restaurants.
A thriving theatre, music and entertainment scene contributes to drive foot traffic through the village, maintaining the precinct's reputation as an iconic cultural hub.
Leafy Erskineville has a village atmosphere and is fast gaining a reputation for its eclectic café and bar scene.
Silent chimneys mark the now-defunct brickworks at St Peters. Although still quite industrial, the small inner-western suburb maintains a strong community focus.
Incorporating the University of Sydney and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), health, higher education and research are the biggest employers within the area.
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Bush or Gore: Does It Matter?
Though he appears to have modified his views in recent weeks, Ralph Nader has spent much of the year traversing the country, insisting that the choice between Al Gore and George W. Bush is nothing more than a pick between "Tweedledee and Tweedledum." Unfortunately, on a number of key issues, Nader has a strong argument. Gore, like Clinton, is first and foremost a pragmatic politician who will betray progressive hopes whenever it suits his larger purposes. The corporate-friendly Vice President has been nowhere near as strong as he claims on environmental issues. ("On the issue of the environment, I've never given up. I've never backed down, and I never will," he lies.) Like Clinton, Gore will continue to back wasteful increases in military spending and the expansion of the failed bipartisan drug war in Colombia. On civil liberties, he will most likely prove just as insensitive, sacrificing important privacy rights to fight exaggerated threats from terrorism and drug trafficking. On trade and globalization issues, a Democratic President can turn out to be even worse than a Republican one. A Democrat carries sufficient clout to pass most agreements against both public opinion and the public interest but lacks the power to force Republicans to accept the kinds of restrictions that genuinely protect the environment and workers' rights. The result in the Clinton presidency has been a series of business-dictated agreements that make it easier for corporations to pursue beggar-thy-neighbor policies. A Democratic defeat might--emphasis on the word "might"--result in a more unified opposition party that would successfully demand powerful protections for workers and communities as the price of expanding free trade and investment agreements.
If the trade/globalization issue were the Vietnam War or World War II, it would be easier to argue that dumping the Democrats is a risk worth taking. As important as trade policy is, however, it remains an uncomfortable stretch to insist that it somehow trumps everything else put together. For while Al Gore, like Bill Clinton, is certain to disappoint anyone naïve enough to believe that he will always "fight for the people against the powerful," as he continually promises, the policies of his presidency would be preferable to Bush's in almost every conceivable way. The Texas governor has sought to minimize the two candidates' political differences by giving his conservatism what he terms "a compassionate face." But the unhappy fact is that, despite his rhetoric, Bush, together with Tom DeLay, Dick Armey and Trent Lott, is the de facto leader of a party and a movement that seeks to reverse decades of social progress as it simultaneously emasculates the federal government's ability to defend the interests of its poor and middle-class citizens. He could not oppose these policies and maintain his power base even if he wanted to--and there is no evidence that he does.
Even on issues where Gore's record is at its weakest, the potential costs of a Bush presidency are enormous. Take campaign finance. We all know of Gore's many transgressions in the mad chase for corporate dollars in the 1996 campaign. His foolishly legalistic "no controlling legal authority" explanations for his unseemly actions have made him something of a national joke on the subject. But owing to this very embarrassment, Gore now professes to have been reborn on this issue. He wants to ban soft money, force outside groups to disclose what issue advertisements they have bought before an election and require broadcasters to give candidates free airtime to answer those outside ads. Gore promises that the McCain/Feingold reform bill, consistently filibustered by Senate Republicans, will be the first law he sends to Congress as President.
Now, even if Gore succeeds in forcing the next Congress to pass McCain/Feingold--an enormous "if"--he is still clearly not willing to go far enough. Until this country institutes a system of public finance like the one currently in operation in Maine, corporations will continue to use their financial power to strangle any number of badly needed reforms. But any way one views the problem, Bush is almost certain to be worse. He opposed John McCain's plan during the Republican primaries because, he explained, the current system works to Republican advantage. Why give it up? Even Bush is not that stupid. As of last spring, business was outspending labor 15 to 1 in this election cycle. Should the Republicans win, that will be the end of campaign finance reform for another four years.
Another area where Gore and company look like Republicans from afar is on foreign policy. A New Democrat through and through, Gore (together with Joe Lieberman) has been on the hawkish side of virtually every intra-Democratic Party argument. Like his gutless boss, but without the excuse of being a "draft dodger," he supports the showering of the military with mountains of unneeded funds as well as a truly idiotic missile defense program that can only do untold harm to the nation's security along with its budget. Gore favors the immoral starvation policies directed at the Cuban and Iraqi people, and the further militarization of our ruinous drug policies, here and in Colombia. Too bad, therefore, that on every one of these issues, Bush is considerably worse.
An almost total novice (and frequent nitwit) when it comes to foreign affairs, Bush is dependent on his father's national security advisers, including Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Brent Scowcroft, George Shultz and Condoleeza Rice. All remain intellectually imprisoned inside a manichean cold war paradigm that was already out of date when they first came into power in the early eighties. Bush's team believes in an aggressive US foreign policy backed by a strong military, but it couldn't care less about promoting human rights, labor rights or environmental protection. (Dick Cheney's vote against freedom for Nelson Mandela is entirely consistent with this worldview.) Bush's advisers do not understand, much less embrace, the emerging view of foreign policy professionals that issues like the depletion of the ozone layer, Third World debt reduction, the global AIDS epidemic, increasing depopulation of ocean fisheries and biochemical threats to the world's agriculture qualify as foreign policy issues. "Global social work" is what Armitage calls these causes. Though not as isolationist-minded as the GOP Congress, this crew has little more use for the United Nations than does Jesse Helms. What's more, in Cheney, Bush has signed off on a politician who publicly endorsed the thuggish extraconstitutional adventurism undertaken by Oliver North during the Iran/contra scandal.
On missile defense, perhaps Gore's most appalling cave-in to right-wing hysteria, the Vice President cravenly favors "developing the technology for a national missile defense system to protect against ballistic-missile attacks from rogue states." But Bush says he would deploy a much more extensive defense right away, whether it works or not. ("Now is the time not to defend outdated treaties but to defend the American people," he told the GOP convention.) As former Reagan Pentagon official Larry Korb has observed, "With President Gore, it would be very limited, and it would go a long way toward accommodating the Russian desires. Bush is willing to do the whole nine yards," and damn the consequences for the budget, the ABM treaty, the arms race and US relations with allies and potential adversaries.


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The New York legislature has passed a bill that extends a real property tax exemption for wind, solar and certain other energy systems until January 1, 2025. The bill provides that real property which includes an eligible energy system is exempt from certain real property taxes for a period of fifteen years, to the extent of any increase in assessed value of the property due to the system. Local governments are permitted to opt out of being required to allow the exemption. The bill was introduced, in part, due to urging by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "SEIA applauds the New York legislature's extension of the property tax for solar systems. Solar is a growing industry, employing thousands and proving access to local clean energy resources for New York's citizens," said Carrie Cullen Hitt, senior vice president of state affairs for SEIA. The bill is intended to help consumers and support continued investment in residential and commercial solar energy generation. This tax exemption comes at a time when New York's solar industry is thriving and is aimed at helping residents see strong returns on their investments. In fact, New York has been one of the foremost states in leveraging the renewable energy source. The success of New York's thriving solar market is, in part, due to Governor Cuomo's NY-Sun Initiative, which has already had a profound impact on the state's electricity industry. Around 69 megawatts of solar capacity came online last year, which ranked ninth in the entire county. The bill is now before Governor Cuomo for signature.
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Gretchen Wilson — "Still Rollin'"
Songwriters: Gretchen Wilson and Vicky McGehee
If you're looking for a reason to start caring about Gretchen Wilson's music again, new single "Still Rollin'" ain't it.
The redneck woman who made white trash cool again–just to watch Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert usurp her territory–turns to classic rock for inspiration here, drawing out the titular "rollin'" just enough syllables to usher its four-word chorus into earworm territory.
Balancing bravely brash anthems "All Jacked Up" and "Here For the Party" with confessional ballads "When I Think About Cheating" and "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today," Wilson burst into 2004 by successfully taking traditional country lifestyles and sounds to the mainstream. But by 2013, any attempt for country radio would be a hard go for Wilson: Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, the few members of the female automatic add club du jour, leave little room for newcomers like Kacey Musgraves and Jana Kramer and even less space for second acts. On its own merit, "Still Rollin'" doesn't pack the punch or polish to join them.
After a three-year album drought, Wilson returns this year with an original album, a classic rock covers album, and a holiday album. And while that classic rock tribute comes later, the influence of The Eagles and Bob Seger is palpable on the lead track from April 2's Right On Time. Backed by piano, "Still Rollin'" hopes to relay the sexy loneliness and listless buzz of a rock and roll life on the tour bus.
But like those long trips between shows, "Still Rollin'" is mostly a blur from point A to point B — and like some of the small-town suburbia passed on the road, it's both inoffensive and unexciting.
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Good heavens, that sounds '70s. It would have been all over the radio back in the day. But, ya know, time has passed.
I love me some Bob Seger
I actually just heard the song on the radio coming back from the liquor store and loved it! Sure it was bookened by Cheney's 'Pirate Ship' and a song by something called Gloriana (which I assumed was the poor man's Lady A and 'Shake It Off" was found in a dumpster behind Hilary Scott's Nashville Apt.), so maybe anything would have sounded good.
However, I rolled down the window and turned it up. Yes, I found myself humming "Against the Wind" and "Night Moves" 10 minutes afterwards, but why is that a bad thing?
There was no rapping, drum machine, or noticeable electro tuning. So, I'm embracing this song with open arms! For now.
Welcome back Gretchen Wilson. For however short of a visit it will be.
You are hilarious and correct on all points.
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Micro-trends, Marriage, and Medicine
Monday, July 27, 2009
Mark Penn, Burson-Marsteller CEO and former campaign advisor to Hillary Clinton, explains the micro-trends he thinks are shaping our culture. Then we'll get an update on the elections in Kurdistan. Plus, our summer reading series, Underappreciated, returns. Novelist Rafael Yglesias talks about A Happy Marriage. And three scientists from Brooklyn College discuss the complexities of drug research.
Burson-Marsteller CEO, and campaign advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, discusses the ever-splintering subsets that Americans identify with, and what they mean. In Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes, Penn draws lessons from small but influential groups such as "soccer moms" and "Nascar dads," and ...
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On our first Underappreciated segment of the summer, we look at the Slovenian novel Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol, a story that takes place in 11th-century Persia. It was originally published in 1938 and was widely translated, but wasn't published in English until 2004. Michael Biggins, the translator of ...
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March 3, 2007
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WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security?s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Alabama to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes on March 1, 2007. FEMA Director David Paulison said the assistance was authorized under a major disaster declaration issued for the state by President Bush. The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Coffee County.


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During this two week music and drama camp, young singers will improve their vocal and performance abilities while having fun and making new friends! Under the tutelage and direction of two highly experienced instructors; Brian Dorscht (drama) and Tara LaBerge(vocal) , students will improve their skills and discover new talents, and bring it all together in a final performance featuring all participants singing various selections from operettas and musicals.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Craig O'Neill and the crew are loading up the RV and heading to the 22nd annual Picklefest tonight!
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Co-chair of Picklefest Richard Pierce stopped by "THV 11 This Morning" to talk about the festival and all the fun you can expect!
The annual event showcases the area's famous dill pickles and has a slew of activities for the whole family.
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The Fortune House Hotel is all-suite hotel located in the high-end residential Brickell Avenue and in the heart of the Financial District and Downtown are, the one bedroom suite with view to the city and skyline of Miami and two bedroom suites with view to Biscayne Bay water. This 29-story hotel is three miles from Post of Miami, seven miles from Miami International Airport, seven miles from South Beach and Key Biscayne. Mandatory Hotel-imposed fees Resort Fee- USD 10.70 per room/ per night Hotel Resorts Inclusion- - Phone calls / incoming calls only/ - Faxes /limited up to 5 pages / - Newspaper /weekday/ - Use of pool and Jacuzzi - Use of Fitness center /gym / sauna and steam room / - Housekeeping/ cleaning fees
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What can I do when my laptop runs out of memory?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | laptops, Maintenance
When it is suggested to you that your laptop is running out of memory, it could mean one of two things:
You may be in need of more RAM if you've acquired programmes which demand more processing power than is currently on your laptop. This does not happen very often. It is only very specialized software, or perhaps new versions of existing programmes on your machine, that would require additional RAM.
The good news is that RAM is relatively inexpensive. It is also quick and easy to add more RAM to your laptop.
If the need for more memory relates to the hard disk, you have several choices:
- create space by removing unused files and defrag your hard disk
- acquire an external hard drive, which you can plug into your laptop
- upgrade the hard disk.
When you purchase a new laptop, it likely has enough hard disk capacity for your needs. But when you create many files, and load many pictures, music videos or movies on the disk, you may find that you need more space.
Now you have to decide which option would be the best for you. Files used only occasionally could be stored on removable disks or data sticks. If you require quick access, an external hard drive could be the solution. But if you don't want the bother to cart other storage media with you, upgrading the hard disk would be the answer to the problem.
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Just as you would only trust a brain surgeon with poking around in your brain, you are advised to let only experts replace the hard drive, or add RAM, to your laptop.
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Nowadays there are 33 panoramas all over the world. One of them with the biggest dimensions is constructed in Pleven, about 170 km to the north-west of Sofia. Pleven is one of the largest Bulgarian towns with a millennium history and full of historical sights. Pleven became internationally famous with the five-months battles during the Russian-Turkish war 1877-78 as a result of which Bulgaria was liberated from the 500 years of Ottoman yoke. The Pleven Epopee 1877 Panorama depicts these events combining painting, plastics and architecture in a whole art work. It was painted by a team of 11 Russian and 2 Bulgarian artists, author N. Ovetchkin, Moscow, Russia!
The combination of the canvas (115/15m), the foreground (12m) and the illumination creates a feeling of authenticity and empathy to the battle fought on 11 September 1877. The spectator finds himself in the middle of the battle field - attacking Russian regiments, smoke from shells, doctors and nurses, counter-attacking Turkish cavalry, fires burning in the town, the Russian General M. D. Skobelev leading the attack against the Turkish fortifications ...
The illusion effect (perspective up to 12km) manages to tear off the visitor from his/her daily cares and to transfer the spectator "back in time", in another reality.
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(Science: anatomy, muscle) origin, supraspinous fossa of scapula; insertion, greater tuberosity of humerus; action, initiates abduction of arm; nerve supply, suprascapular from fifth and sixth cervical.
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The Grand Calabash is an exceptional private residence at The Regent Grand, featuring 1900 sq feet of luxurious living space, professionally decorated, with both beach front and pool side terraces ...... and when booking the Grand Calabash, you know exactly which suite you are renting, rather than being assigned just any suite upon check-in.
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If you appreciate great architecture, then the Regent Grand is for you. Inspired by Neoclassical Italian and Caribbean architecture, this unique structure blends Italian sophistication with Caribbean laid-back cool. Classic columns, travertine marble, piazza-style courtyard with lush tropical gardens, cascading fountains and mosaic tiled infinity edge pool transplanted onto a white sand beach with turquoise blue water, golden hot sun and graceful swaying palm trees. Perfecto!!!
The Regent Grand is very quiet and peaceful, however on the doorstep you will find Regent Village – "The Heart of Provo" - the center of arts, entertainment and dining in Grace Bay. There are over 20 restaurants to suit all tastes within walking distance – Pizza, Sushi, Italian, French, Irish, Indian, Thai, Mediterranean and traditional US. Not to mention the Island's best shopping, duty-free jewelry stores, beach fashion, souvenir outlets, art galleries, and some of the best dive operators in the country. And the island's gourmet grocery is just a short 5 minute walk away, where you can stock up on up all your provisions.
The Grand Calabash is an elegant private residence, located directly on the beach at The Regent Grand. The living room features 20 feet of sliding glass doors opening onto an oversize terrace directly overlooking the beach and turquoise sea, and both bedrooms feature French doors opening onto a 2nd arched terrace overlooking the signature infinity edge pool and tropical gardens ...... Stunning both day and night!
The beauty and grace of this exquisite suite is unmatched. The Grand Calabash is luxuriously furnished in the classic British West Indies style with a contemporary edge. Sophisticated, elegant, yet laid-back and extremely comfortable - we call it Caribbean Chic.
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After travelling the world for 35 years, my favourite place to relax and unwind is The Turks & Caicos Islands. I relocated to Providenciales 18 years ago and now enjoy a relaxed laid back lifestyle .... as you can too when renting The Grand Calabash.
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Providenciales's Grace Bay Beach, with it's 12 miles of powdery white sand and crystal clear turquoise waters, is clearly the most beautiful beach in the world, rated #1 on a regular basis by major travel magazines and websites. And The Regent Grand is located right in the middle of the Grace Bay area, within steps of the Island's best shopping, restaurants, and the IGA Gourmet Grocery ..... and no need for a rental car. It doesn't get any better!
The Grand Calabash is a very special retreat located at the spectacular Regent Grand Resort. It's heated mosiac tiled infinity edge pool is unmatched on the Island, and it's location unbeatable, and when booking this suite, you know in advance exactly which suite you are staying in .... one of The Regent Grand's finest !
This was our second trip to Turks and Caicos. Walking into the resort is just as beautiful as the pictures. As you walk through reception and see the pool you know you have made the right choice. We rented the Grand Calabash suite which is a 2 bedroom suite with a balcony overlooking the ocean and balconies overlooking the pool. The room was immaculate and very large. The deck overlooking the ocean was large enough to have a couch and a table for 4 with room left over. The landscaping at the resort was gorgeous and immaculately maintained. If you are looking for crowds or allot of activity this resort is not for you. The resort never seems crowded and several times we had the huge pool all to ourselves. The resort staff was wonderful and always kept the grounds spotless. The location is perfect. Being right next to the regent village puts everything you need within a short walk. I cannot say enough about the Regent Grand and their staff. Make sure to visit the pool bar. (reviewed on Trip Adviser)
This well appointed suite has the feel of a luxury hotel, with the amenities of home. From the designer decor to the monogrammed linens, no detail has been overlooked. We stayed for nine days in January 2015 and our only regret was that we didn't stay longer.
Everything that was promised was delivered. The suite and location are exactly as described and the beach was more beautiful than we imagined. The owner is extremely easy to work with and we appreciated his open communication and prompt replies.
We would highly recommend this rental to anyone thinking about coming to the Grace Bay area. The full kitchen allowed us to cook several meals, while the supreme location meant we had our choice of at least a dozen restaurants to visit. The grocery store is a very short walk away and there were several shops nearby.
Book this suite! You will not regret it!
From beginning to end I was impressed at how professional and thorough Andrew is. His apartment is beautiful and the resort is breathtaking. You can not go wrong here. Also, the location is great, within walking distance to restaurants and shopping. I can not say enough and would highly recommend the Grand Calabash suite!!!
We recently returned from a week long vacation in the Grand Calabash and giving it 5 stars doesn't do it justice.
Lets start with the blue skies, mild breezes, crystal clear ocean and add to it a beautiful, well appointed condo with an amazing view. The owner was responsive and helpful during the rental process, our pre trip questions answered quickly and after return he checked back to make sure all was well. Sets the bar in terms of VRBO experiences.
This was our first trip to TCI and we can't wait to go back. The people were genuinely friendly and welcomed tourists. Our favorite experience was rented a boat for the day from Catch the Wave. Christian was our captain and for 4 hours we experiences TCI from the water, it was breath taking. Well worth the money.
I would recommend the Grand Calabash for really any age group as well as the Regent Grand. For teenagers maybe alittle slow, you would need to seek out other teens or activities. Other than that the location is perfect for all. The unit was exactly as described and photographed.
We will be definately be back to TCI and Grand Calabash. We really were fortunate to find an owner who makes sure his renters experience a high quality vacation.
One note - take your bug spray - the mosquitos ( no see ums) can get you at night.
Thanks Grand Calabash for a great vacation -
We rented the Grand Calabash for the week, with our two young kids, and it was above & beyond our expectations. Immaculately clean. Incredibly decorated. Total comforts of being home. Convenient to everything. Amazing views. Fantastic resort & resort staff. I could go on for a while... We will definitely be re-booking for next year!
While this is my first review, this was our second year at the Grand Calabash and it was absoutely wonderful. There were three adults in our party. The unit is large and beautifully furnished and decorated. The beds are comfortable and the towels and linens are top quality, because who needs scratchy towels and sheets after a day in the sun!? When we arrived we dropped our bags and went right out to the balcony which overlooks beautiful Grace Bay Beach, with its hypnotic turquoise water. The balcony is large with plenty of seating and is our favorite place for early morning coffee and muffins and late afternoon cocktails and snacks. The Regent Grand, where the Calabash is located, is a lovely resort, also beautifully maintained, and the pool area with two jacuzzis is very relaxing. There are always fresh towels and plenty of comfortable chaise lounges. The service at the resort is top notch from Dave at the bar, to Randall and Jo Jo at the pool, beach, and anywhere else you need them to be. We had a car for this trip but the Regent Grand is located in the Regent Village and you are within walking distance of shopping and restaurants. Finally, and most importantly, the owner, Andrew is a great guy, easy to deal with and always available for questions, etc. He is very hands-on and not an "absentee" owner by any stretch of the imagination. If you are looking for a relaxing vacation in beautiful surroundings, The Grand Calabash is for you. We will be going back again, most likely with a party of four, and can't wait.
This is a beautiful condo in the Regent Grand. Everything was just as the owner described in the VRBO listing. The owner (Andrew) was extremely responsive and made everything easy. The size of the unit is fantastic and the decorating is very nicely done. The beds were comfortable and the sheets and towels were excellent quality. All three of us just melted into the large sectional sofa in the living room. The paintings were nice and came from a local artist with a shop in the Regent Village. The kitchen had everything that we needed. The second floor location is great with easy access by stairs or elevator. You will never tire of the gorgeous view from the large oceanfront balcony. The unit also has a small balcony off of the bedrooms that overlooks the signature heated pool with two hot tubs. The Regent Grand staff is top notch with a special mention to JoJo as he is simply great. The beach is just steps away and the pictures rarely do it justice as the sand is silky soft and the shades of water color almost surreal. We would happily rent again from Andrew and return for another visit to this wonderful property.
The Grand Calabash is located directly on the beach in the heart of the Grace Bay tourist area, within easy walking distance of the island's best shopping, restaurants and grocery store. No need for a rental car.
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Develop Voice by Listening
Guest on Jul 31 2013 | Filed under: CRAFT
Today's guest is TL Costa, the debut author of the young adult novel Playing Tyler (Strange Chemistry/Random House), which has been called "One part Real Genius and one part War Games" by A.G. Howard, author of Splintered. Howard also said:
Playing Tyler has voice for miles, two damaged yet driven main characters who will simultaneously shatter your heart and send your pulse into overdrive, and disturbing plot twists that could too easily be real. The emotionally riveting prose and genuine relationships draw you in and won't let go until the final satisfying sentence. Costa is on my auto-buy list from this day forward!"
And the lovely New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristin Higgins said this of Playing Tyler:
Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, Ponyboy Curtis…add another name to the list of unforgettable teenage heroes: Tyler MacCandless. Ty will break your heart and make your cheer on this fast and furious thrill-ride. A breathtaking new voice in young adult fiction, TL Costa weaves realistic adventure, heartache and first love in this amazing, fast-paced story. Fresh. Thrilling. Heartfelt. I'm running out of adjectives, but trust me. You will love this book."
TL Costa has worked as a publicist, assistant gallery director, high school teacher and she's a mother. Here, she talks about voice, including how being in a musical family helped her build her main character.
Learn more about her and her novel, Playing Tyler, on her website, and by following her on Twitter (@TLCosta1) and Facebook.
Develop Voice by Listening
Voice is a concept in fiction that stands out as an abstract. Terms like theme, pace, structure, character, can all be explained to an emerging writer in a comparatively straightforward fashion. A strong voice, on the other hand, is something that readers and agents and editors want, but very few can define in quantitative terms. It can also be divisive, as a book with a strong voice is typically either loved or hated.
Coming from a musical family, I grew up hearing loved ones slowly plucking out a song from the atmosphere. Hours of my childhood were spent with my head bent low over the piano, playing a tune again and again in my mind, my fingers desperately seeking the notes that would match my song.
To call a song into life is a realization of the relationship between musician and instrument, much like to write with a strong voice is the realization of the relationship between author and book.
This, to me, is the essence of voice. Voice is the music called into being by the writer and put into words.
How is this done?
Through the manipulation of words, of dialect, and of punctuation used to appropriately reflect your character(s), their thoughts and their emotions.
The beat generation exemplifies a community of authors who understood the correlation between prose and melody.
Jack Kerouac admired the work of Charlie Parker, a legendary trumpet player. Kerouac's style of writing, a stream of consciousness that echoed the wild, sometimes discordant music in his head, is reflective of this jazz. And, like Charlie Parker's music, it's Jack Kerouac's voice that pulls the reader into his story. That keeps us reading. If we read the opening lines of Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, you can almost hear a Parker jazz riff behind them:
Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara." –Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Now listen to Charlie Parker's All the Things You Are:
Hear it?
Other authors that use strong voice in their work may not have such a specific type of music by which to model their craft, yet still the voice of each character make its own, character-specific, type of music. The Catcher in the Rye, for instance, has a very distinct voice, and it's the word order, the rhythm behind the thoughts, that so clearly demonstrates Holden's state of mind, that grabs the reader and takes them along.
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." – JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
In this example, Salinger uses certain word repetition—have to, I mean—and pairs it with punctuation to create a melody to the words that reveal to us the depth of Holden's character.
In my debut, Playing Tyler, Tyler's voice is it's own distinct song, a song that I transcribe from my mind to the page. His ADHD gives him a unique, rather staccato melody of thought. Much like in music, I use his voice to increase tension by speeding the pace of that song, by blurring the lines of reason into a burst of emotion reflective of the discordant epiphanies found in the music of Bartok, or the anarchic beauty found in the work of various punk bands.
I wanted to show the reader that his condition is reflected in his every thought, every action. I would ask myself how would that voice change as he encountered first love? As he visited his brother in rehab? As he started to discover the matrix of moral ambiguities between right and wrong? His words barrel through chapters and help steer the reader through the complex workings of his mind, giving the reader a deep, almost visceral relationship with Tyler.
Voice is a great opportunity for the writer, a chance to demonstrate a character's personality, convey emotion, and reflect the pace of the plot. So if we really wish to master the voice of prose, first we may have to open our ears.
What books contain your favorite examples of a strong voice?
33 Responses to "Develop Voice by Listening"
Fascinating comparisons with music and prose. The Kerouac passage also reminds me of the rhythm of a long-distance train traveling the rails. Voice is a powerful tool to evoke setting, too. Kind of like casting a spell to transport readers into the story world and the mind of the narrator.
Books! You asked about books! :) A strong voice helps bond me to a book. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a banquet of voice, but I'm partial to the southern voice anyway. I also enjoyed John Burdett's BANKGKOK 8 with its mix of the spiritual and profane. Two more recent books with strong voices I enjoyed are two takes on dark deeds in small towns: Patricia McLinn's SIGN OFF and Gillian Flynn's SHARP OBJECTS.
Hi there,
You're the first person I've come across that has related voice with music and oh, how it makes sense. Voice is something I yearn for in my work and so I'm always so excited when I see an article that talks about voice. For the past year and a half, I've been listening to a particular album while I write and find that apart from getting me in the mood, the rhythm of my narrative voice has remained consistent (at least that's what my tutor says).
Thank you for an enlightening post.
Forgot to answer your question: Patrick Ness's The knife of letting go, Meg Rosoff's How I live now and Jenny Downham's Before I die.
Thanks for stopping by, Ekwy! I find that when I write I tend to listen to the same pieces over and over. Oddly, I can't listen to the music when I'm actually typing, but rather when I'm forming a plan for a scene in my head. But each character tends to have their own album, and I really believe that it does help with consistency of voice.
Patrick Ness' Knife of Never Letting Go is one of my absolute favorites. What he does with voice is an inspiration!
Most of the classics, and one authors who write both songs and books are often favorites. Woody Guthrie is often overlooked, but had amazing voice in the few books he wrote.
Although I'm not certain I can draw a direct correlation to voice, music plays a major role in my writing. Certain musical artists have a way of conveying emotion in such a direct way. Sometimes it's lyrical, sometimes relates to sounds or orchestration. I aspire to tap into emotion with such directness and simplicity, but I know I have far to go. Nice examples!
As far as strong voice examples that spring to mind: Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series, and Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels.
It took me a while to realize why the Narnia series was such a big part of my childhood and after a while I realized it was because of C.S. Lewis' narrator's voice. I've heard others describe it as too patronizing or intrusive, and I can see how someone might see it that way, but for me it was like having some kind grown-up explain all those weird things you know are going on but you're not quite understanding as a kid (and not sounding at all patronizing, to me).
It's a unique voice because Lewis uses a first-person, past tense narration with an omniscient narrator, a narrator who is not a character in the novel. You don't see that much these days!
I actually wrote a blog post with some examples from one of the books here: http://christianfrey.ca/narrative-voice-and-cs-lewis/
Thanks, Christian! I LOVE your piece on CS Lewis. I have been trying to think of someone else who uses first person, past tense omniscient POV to such great results and just can't. CS Lewis was a master-storyteller and his style in the Narnia series hit the perfect mix of charm and whimsy. Have you read the Screwtape Letters? The POV is different, but the voice is simply remarkable in that one as well.
Thank you!! I haven't read the Screwtape Letters, although I've read about them. It's on my TBR list ;)
Another favorite of mine for voice is the YA novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Two authors writing two protagonists with the same name who meet unexpectedly halfway through the book. It's a great contrast.
I hear the "strong voice" statement quite often, but I don't know what a strong voice would read like. I'm still chugging down similac on that concept. Sometimes I think I know, but I probably really don't know. Honestly- I don't really think about it. It feels like it's above my pay grade.
Thanks for stopping by, Brian! Voice is definitely one of the trickiest concepts to master, or even understand. Because one aspect of the voice lies in the writer's own personal style, and the other lies in maintaining a certain uniqueness to the characters the author is writing. One thing that helps me is to imagine that as I write each character's POV, I am "method acting"- assuring that every word I use, every thing about my situation is what that character would notice and nothing else.
For great examples of a strong, clear-as-day novels with a strong voice I would recommend A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and FEED by MT Anderson.
Awesome post, T.L. I love the analogy of writer's voice to that of a musician's song. There are those rare writers who stand out head and shoulders above the rest with an indefinable something in their writing that captivates and draws the reader into the head and heart of each character. You have defined it beautifully! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
As for distinct voices in literature, Barbara Kingsolver comes to mind, as does Diana Gabaldon. These ladies could write grocery lists that would make my heart sing and force me to turn a page. Both have a sense of the lyrical that resonates with me. I think I could identify their writing even without knowing it was them. That's the true essence of voice for me.
LOVE this post! Voice is so tricky to nail but so worth getting down. I think listening to people talk is a great way to help develop a character's voice.
This is actually something that really bothered me about The Hunger Games. Katniss' voice was ok, but sometimes she would use big words that I didn't think Katniss, girl from the slums, would know. It took me out of the story.
Thanks, Jessica! Voice is such a tricky thing, and one or two mis-steps in a text can definitely pull a reader out of a story.
You are so right! Listening to the way people speak helps me greatly when it comes to voice. I go and sit in cafes and pretend to read while I'm really taking notes on patterns of speech. I find it's so helpful.
definitely a trip finding the lines to match –
esp loved,
"To call a song into life is a realization of the relationship between musician and instrument, much like to write with a strong voice is the realization of the relationship between author and book.
This, to me, is the essence of voice. Voice is the music called into being by the writer and put into words." –
i think dance can help, poetry, listening to the wind, a baby breath, but music does have a power ;-)
Love the analogy between voice and music. Books with a great voice: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate diCamillo (actually, she's got such a beautiful voice, I'd even read her grocery list). The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (the details are so evocative, I am transported into the world she creates. It's like listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (love the grandmother and her wit and wisdom). That's three for now …
TL, I love the comparison of voice to music. I don't think voice is always musical, but it can be, and it can be beautiful. When I think of Kazuo Ishiguro, I hear a quiet piano. Right now, I'm reading Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – the narrator's voice doesn't sound musical to me, but it certainly sounds alive, and very much has the quality of someone locked inside his own head. Lyric poetry has an even stronger connection to music, although I get the feeling that when you refer to the sound and personality of narrative voice, you mean something a little different? I'm know I'm struggling with voice in my own writing. Thanks for your thoughts on the subject!
Christian, good point about Lewis, and I like your blog post about it.
Thanks, Patrick! Yes, there is a strong tie between poetry and music. One of my favorite examples is the poetry/plays of Lorca. How he mixes poetry into his prose and uses every aspect of language to create music within his words is breathtaking. As for Kesey, yes, his voice is definitely alive! I still think of it as musical, though, just more of the discordant variety- like punk, heavy metal or experimental electronica.
Fascinating post. Voice is one of those things that is so hard to pin down. I really love Lily King, Kent Haruf, Tim Winton and Peter Heller's The Dog Stars for voice. Their characters are so real and the writing so evocative.
Wonderful post! It reminds me of why I listen to music when I write. In the beginning, I had a lot of problems writing dialogue without all my characters sounding the same, using the same inflection, the same words, the same tone. My writing was very flat and one-dimensional. Music helped open those doors and really allowed me to create characters who were layered and interesting. To further that development, I listen to different genres of music when I'm world-building, drafting a character background, and just generally polishing my manuscript. I have found the addition of music to be invaluable in my writing process.
Thanks again for a great post!


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