Tag: Torg
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Library Book Browsing Activity
Find the Book You Were Looking For (or the one you didn’t know you were looking for) The Activity: (take notes in your daybook) Walk over to the library with someone you don’t know very well, and chat with them about their intellectual interests. What did they find during the last library trip? What do…
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Prof. Torg’s take on Jennifer Egan’s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
If you have a Facebook page, own one of the latest cell phones, blog, or tweet, then you ought to at least check out chapter 13 in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad. In the following quote from the last chapter, a once big-time music executive laments about the state of the business. …
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To Marry or Not? Finding Answers in Suicide Hill
It may or may not be obvious that stories can come from all sorts of places and get written for all sorts of reasons. Take for example “Suicide Hill.” It was the first story I ever mentally composed, (as opposed to writing it on paper or typing it on a computer) and I “wrote” it…
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How Would You Define “Retro” and “Indie”?
My questions for Lori Hettler, author of The Next Big Book Blog: I see you say you are interested all things, “retro.” What do you mean? I am a product of my generation. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s… my fondest memories include Cabbage Patch Kid dolls (and those god-awful but so cool…
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An Elevator Pitch for HORSESHOE
There’s a big difference between what I learned doing an MFA Degree in Creative Writing at a place like Georgia College and what I’ve learned being in New York, reading for a literary agency, and beginning to hang around literary business types here. Both experiences (my MFA and living here) have worked together to teach…
Bill Torgerson 