Dreams of Literary Grandeur

~ One man's quest to become a professional novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer

Dreams of Literary Grandeur

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My New Year’s Resolutions

January 9, 2012

At the end of 2010, I wrote a blog post emphasizing what to look forward to on my blog in …

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10,000 Strong

November 26, 2011

As of this writing, I have almost reached 10,000 hits on my blog. Granted, many of them are the same people week after week, and some of them are spambots. Still, 10,000 is a large number. Not as large as, say, 1 million, but still large. And that doesn’t count the people who read my blog when it was on Blogger, so though the blog is over two years old, I will have achieved 10,000 hits in less than a year and a half.

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Update on the Novel 5, and More!

October 24, 2011

I have not one, not two, but three updates for all of you folks out there! 1.) I sent my …

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Goodbye, ESL!

September 3, 2011

I first started teaching English as a Second Language in Japan, for the now-defunct NOVA Corporation.  New recruits were given …

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An Apology (Of Sorts)

August 9, 2011

For those of you who are still following my blog, despite my absence and lack of comments on other blogs, …

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♣ Current Dreams

  • The Best of SIFF 2012: Week One
  • A Night at the Opera….Simulcast
  • The Film Festival Cometh…
  • How I Spent My Birthday
  • Impressions of Japan, Four Years Later

♣ Talking in Your Sleep

Greg on A Night at the Opera…
Melee on A Night at the Opera…
Greg on The Film Festival Cometh…
Philip on The Film Festival Cometh…
Greg on How I Spent My Birthday

♣ My Favorite Dreams

  • The Best of SIFF 2012: Week One
  • Night of the Living Dead: Horror Movie as Social Commentary
  • A Review of the Top Psychopathic Killer Movies (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)
  • My First Memory
  • Why I Love Snow

♣ Past Dreams

♣ Dream Themes

Advice Blog News Celebrations Childhood Commentary Creative Endeavors Criticism Culture Current Events Diary of a Literary Rebel Favorite Authors Favorite Movies Festivals Film Future Planning Hobbies Humor Japan Literary Dreams Literature Miscellaneous Musical Blogs My Poems Personal Essay Politics Quotes Seattle SIFF The Holidays

♣ Featured Dreamscapes

  • Bonnie Branson Illustration “Illustrator/teacher living in the Bay State! :-)”
  • Books I Read “Curious reads and finds”
  • Ifferjenn Independent “Life could be a dream, sweetheart. Sha-boom.”
  • Onlyne Short, insightful movie reviews from one of the first regular readers of my blog.
  • The Cinephile Fix “YOUR FIX FOR EVERYTHING FILM,’ by Roger Ebert’s Far-Flung Correspondent from Egypt, and a great movie critic in his own right.

♣ Twittering in My Sleep

  • For families and friends of the victims of today's violence, some music to give voice to their pain: youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOv… #rooseveltshooting 4 hours ago
  • RT @mariannesp: SEATTLE, MAY 30, 2012 nblo.gs/ydLy0 4 hours ago
  • RT @2_scoops: UPDATE: RT @seattlepi: Harborview reports that 5th victim and suspect in #Rooseveltshooting have died. 1 survivor in criti ... 5 hours ago
  • A horribly sad day for people living in Seattle. Horribly sad: news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/… #homicide 5 hours ago
  • RT @TCFilmGeek: Kaneto Shindo, director of ONIBABA, KURONEKO, THE NAKED ISLAND, passed away yesterday at the age of 100. R.I.P. 17 hours ago
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“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” -Robert Schumann

Currently Reading

-American Stories (Nagai Kafū, trans. by Mitsuko Iriye)
-Collected Poems (Sylvia Plath)

Reading on Hold

-The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (Nathalie Babel, ed.; Peter Constantine, trans.)
-Le petit Nicolas (Sempé-Goscinny)
-Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language (Jack Lynch, ed.)

Last Read

-Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (annotated and trans. by Ernest Newman)

Currently Working On

My Novel

My Publications

Digging Up the Past: Poetry from High School (1994-97)
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Publications Featuring My Poetry

Long River Run 2009 (Connecticut Poetry Society)
In Twelve Hands: Poetry Annual 2009 (Wild Leaf Press) (click on "Online Store")

Contributions to Other Websites

Amazon.com Reviews

Two Tweetplays:
The Doorframe of Insanity
The Dreamer

The Flick Pick Monster Blog: Shall We Conclude? Cinema's Great Last Scenes and Endings

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