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This Week's Headlines - 06/09/2010
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"My contribution to CHICAGO BLUES (Bleak House, 2007) was way out of my comfort zone, but that’s what I loved about writing short stories. They allow me to stretch and experiment with different characters, plots, eras, and settings. This story is about a Blues bass player whose ability to love and forgive is tested by events out of his control. There’s also a historical element: the story takes place both in the 1980’s and the 1950’s. It turned out to be one of the sweetest stories I’ve ever written..."
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
By Carlotta G. Holton
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployment and homelessness ravaged the social and economic landscape. Many traveled westward across America's heartland to find work at migrant camps. Within this vagabond lifestyle, legends were born. Perhaps the most chilling among these is that of “Mr. Shivers” – death personified. He's been around since Father Time, the workers used to say, and no jail cell can hold him. “He has a train made of night that rides straight to hell,” writes Bennett. And he hurts people...
WNW Talks to Peter Damian Bellis
Peter Damian Bellis refuses to be pigeonholed. He is a unique blend of scholar and writer, combining an English professor’s encyclopedic knowledge of literature with an artist’s organic view on creating art. Not surprisingly, Bellis’s style reflects his dichotomous up-bringing where he benefited from both the academic influences of his father, and the story-telling traditions of his grandmother. Bellis graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in English Literature. Over the course of his career he’s worn many hats, including but not limited to high school English teacher, college English professor, policy analyst for the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, Workforce Development Specialist for a non-profit agency, inn keeper, and chief bottle washer. His most recent work, The Conjure Man is described as “part myth, part fable, part satire, and part coming-of-age story.”
