Lisa Rivero
Note: Click here for an updated version of this post. The Shallows, Part I: Deep Reading Yesterday I took advantage of having a cold and staying home (our car didn’t leave the driveway all day!) to finish reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. The book was released …
How many rejections does it take for you to give up? Ten? Twenty? Forty? Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, didn’t give up after even sixty rejections: “The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being …
From The Guardian: Writers at their Typewriters (a photo essay) From Stylist Magazine: The Best 100 Opening Lines from Books From Salon: Death to High School English “I’ve sat at my desk, a stack of their two-to-three-page papers before me, and felt overwhelmed to the point of physical paralysis by all the things they don’t …
I haven’t been online much in the past couple of days because of a cold that makes my itchy eyes balk at the sight of a computer screen. However, I’ve been using some of this time, appropriately enough, to start reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. It’s …
Congratulations to Kim for winning a free copy of Christine Fonseca’s 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids! To choose the winner, I used a random list generator at random.org. Thank you to everyone who commented on Christine’s interview.