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Lucien Fewell shot James Clark after he apparently ran off with Lucien's 16-year-old sister. The murder trial that followed featured two Confederate generals and a former Virginia governor. What was the verdict? (also on Amazon.com)
Author Archives: arwenbicknell
Seminars, Symposiums, and Oh, Yeah, Books
So, there have been several developments, some of them social, some of them literary. I went to a book festival in Kentucky last month as a spousal tagalong while my husband talked America 1844. It was interesting to go to the seminars—all … Continue reading
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Lack of Focus, Little Progress
I have not finished reading any books. I am in the middle of one (re-reading an old Karen Abbott—Sin in the Second City), listening to another (David McCullough’s 1776), and foolishly started a third this week because it looked frothy … Continue reading
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“Moby Dick? Never Read It.”
(Titled with apologies to Laurie Anderson.) Well, I still haven’t technically read it, and I daresay I never will. I spent the past two weeks listening to it on CD during my commutes to work, and that was enough to put … Continue reading
Midstream…
This is the problem with trying to blog every week. Too many works in progress, no progress to actually report. The proposal is written and in the hands of a capable but overtaxed editor who will get to it when … Continue reading
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Getting Closer
The book, oh the book. Every day I do not write the book. But I poke at it around the edges. I send email to strangers looking for information I don’t have, and they probably don’t either. I do web … Continue reading
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Dropping the Ball
Well, I missed last week’s window to blog. I wish I could say it was because I was working so hard on the book, or so absorbed in reading someone else’s, but the truth is I was just flat lazy … Continue reading
Posted in Excused Absence, Nonfiction, Process
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It’s History, Not Hzzzz…..
I finished Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy last night and absolutely loved it. Partly, I loved it because it was sort of like visiting old friends—both main characters and secondary—and learning a lot more about them than I knew before. (The … Continue reading
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This Is How We Don’t Do It…
… And then I have weeks like this one, where work and family and life in general got in the way. I got some research done. I read a little bit of a book I’ll talk about when I’ve finished it. … Continue reading
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This Is How We Do It…
I just finished Michael Ross’s The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, and I’m so glad I read it, for so many reasons. First, it is just a really good book. The writing is not particularly beautiful language, it’s very journalistic … Continue reading
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Advances on Several Fronts
I saw some baby-step advances on the book this week, though they came from unlikely places, and none of them really involved Actual Writing. First, my beta reader contacted me saying she liked what she saw, but she is drawing up copious … Continue reading
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Arwen Adams Bicknell 