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Monday, January 21, 2013 10:15:52 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 123: Father : Christmas: A Bibliographic Memoir . . .:
Tony said, "OF ALL THE EARLY Decembers of my childhood, one of the things I remember most is a single, silent ritual by which my father announced the coming of Christmas. Some frosty morning not long after Thanksgiving, but never before December had started,..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 6:54:58 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 122: Random Hemingway . . .:
Tony said, "I buy a lot of books, probably a hundred a year. I suppose I am building a library, though I don’t have nearly enough room, so in addition to a couple of hundred feet of built-in shelves I economize table, floor, and desk by stacking books in..." more
Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:53:33 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 121: Words and Pictures . . .:
Tony said, " We’ve been talking lately about a program in which student writers and illustrators can feed off each other’s work in mutually beneficial ways. The obvious form of the collaboration in children’s literature is the illustration of a (mostly)..." more
Friday, April 6, 2012 12:45:25 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 119: Simply one of our best . . .:
Tony said, "I don’t know how many of you watched the American Masters episode about Harper Lee this past week, but I am deeply bothered by its snide rendering of Truman Capote — to my mind a far smarter and better writer than Lee — and the..." more
Sunday, March 11, 2012 9:28:03 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 118: Wastage as never before . . .:
Tony said, "Well, a grand allusion to an insignificant issue, certainly, and my apologies to Pound and the myriad, but sometimes you arrive at conclusions so very long after being presented with mountains of evidence that you gasp and choke back a kind of..." more
Friday, February 24, 2012 12:06:49 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 117: On Bartok, the willfully difficult, and reclusionisme . . .:
Tony said, "My memory is getting worse. In Exit Ghost the narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, talks in loving terms about his secluded house in the Berkshires somewhere near Lenox, and describes himself — to himself and others — as a recluse. Among its other..." more
Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:55:48 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 116: A New Hope . . .:
Tony said, "After an execrable showing — one entry these past two months — we’re getting our sea legs once again. The title above refers to a question I was asked just yesterday by a young reader: “ . . . themes in one or more of your adventure stories..." more
Saturday, December 10, 2011 6:10:27 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 115: The December Dip . . .:
Tony said, "This is the week that Fall 2011 evaluations of my MFA students’ work are due, and three of the four have been written and dispatched. It’s also the week teachers receive manuscripts to be workshopped at the residency that kicks off the Spring..." more
Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:43:09 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 114: Reading Log(jam) . . .:
Tony said, "Why can’t I ever read one book at a time? Start, read, finish, and put away? Is it like this for everyone? On my desk are at some thirty-five new books that I am at least two chapters in to, some far more, but I do not seem to want to finish any..." more
Friday, November 4, 2011 1:20:10 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 113: Not Now, Bobby . . .:
Tony said, "Well. It was the word under my high school yearbook picture. Well. Because apparently that’s what people remembered me saying a lot. So much so, in fact, that “well” must have become universally recognized as my calling card. I objected to a..." more
Friday, September 30, 2011 1:50:17 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 112: The Big Ohio Tour . . .:
Tony said, "From November 1 – 5, I will be in Ohio (my fair native state), reading and signing LUNCH-BOX DREAM, which appeared from Farrar Straus Giroux this summer. Naturally, I’ll also be talking about other books, but being the setting for the new..." more
Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:26:57 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 111: Atomic Language . . .:
Tony said, "Language is not only the atomic level of substance we use to write — the bricks of the building, as it were — but the hugeness of the building and the reason why the building is there in the first place. There are some writers who believe that..." more
Saturday, July 30, 2011 2:04:40 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 110: The Music of What Happens . . .:
Tony said, "It’s been a noisy week in . . . here. Item: The tonnage of stuff to do has fairly collapsed my cheap but lovable desk, and there’s been no time to read much of anything, but a book due this coming Monday has received a gentle extension to the..." more
Friday, July 22, 2011 12:17:31 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 109: The Eye of the Funnel . . .:
Tony said, "When visiting classrooms, and the question comes up about what part of writing I like best, I often refer to the time spent writing a book as being inside a funnel. At the beginning of the writing process, you find yourself luxuriating in the large..." more
Sunday, July 17, 2011 7:39:19 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 108: The Roaring Silence . . .:
Tony said, "Publication dates for most writers usually don’t mean anything. If your book isn’t fixed with a specific “lay-down” date, before which retailers are barred from selling the book and competing with the publisher’s promotional program,..." more
Saturday, July 9, 2011 6:58:20 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 107: A Matter of Time . . .:
Tony said, "Several weeks now since the last issue, and I feel bad. They have been busy weeks, stacked with reading, teaching, writing, and all the other stuff that comes between; life, I suppose you could call it. First, a catalog of the recent books to appear..." more
Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:27:02 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 106: Voice and the Reading Experience . . .:
Tony said, "Now, I have not read nearly widely enough across the author spectrum or deeply enough in the writers I do like, but it struck me today, as it must have struck everyone else long ago, that there are writers whose novels and stories, no matter how..." more
Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:28:57 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 104: The Bowl on Your Head . . .:
Tony said, "When I visit classrooms — the last one of the current school year was this past week in Howell, New Jersey — I often find myself responding to the question, “Do you like being an author?” with two statements. The first is that the word..." more
Sunday, June 12, 2011 8:28:57 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 105: The summer session is nearly here . . .:
Tony said, "This is nothing but a bit of fluff, but it bothers me not to produce something by deadline, so for this Friday, a brief mention about seminars. For the last two days I’ve been poring over materials for the “cohort” seminar I’m delivering at..." more
Friday, May 27, 2011 9:03:34 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 103: Deepening the Dish . . .:
Tony said, "Since I began teaching at Lesley University’s MFA in Creative Writing, I’ve found a place to put a number of my more serious interests in literature to good use. Constructing seminars, guiding, commenting, teaching, are fulfilling a host of..." more
Saturday, May 7, 2011 5:23:56 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 102: T. C. Boyle and the Beauty of the Text . . .:
Tony said, "With apologies to my students who will see this in another form . . . Since the beginning of my fascination with writing I’ve felt a deep attraction to the sound of the text, whether prose or poetry. Certainly, the play of the words on the mind is..." more
Thursday, May 5, 2011 6:49:31 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 101: The Conversation . . .:
Tony said, "Two booky events draw near. At the annual meeting of the New England chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (NE-SCBWI), to be held at the Courtyard Marriott in Fitchburg, Mass., May 13 - 15 is a panel my colleagues Nora..." more
Friday, April 22, 2011 11:31:51 AM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 100: It’s all still there . . .:
Tony said, "There are two new books of letters that I yearn to acquire. One includes those between Elizabeth Bishop and her various editors at The New Yorker. The other collects the correspondence between Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, presumably those he..." more
Friday, April 15, 2011 2:13:19 PM
Tony Abbott wrote a blog post titled FBR 99: Nearly there . . .:
Tony said, "This would have been the hundredth issue of the Report, except that last week had a bit more of the nutty than I anticipated. One of the hundred things that took my time was writing an essay. As you cannot possibly be unaware, the upcoming book..." more
Monday, November 2, 2015 1:45:07 PM
Tony Abbott made friends with Suzanne Urban