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Tag: The Atlas of Reds and Blues

  • Posted on Tuesday, July 16, 2019Monday, July 15, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: bloopers

I don’t have a blooper reel, per se, with regard to The Atlas of Reds and Blues. What I do…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2019Monday, June 24, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: The case against the green-eyed beastie

Aloha! Everyone gets jealous. It’s human nature. I won’t lie and say that I don’t get jealous. But….. I have…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2019Friday, March 8, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: IRL, 1966-2010

In my novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, I tried to capture the real world — the nonfiction world…

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  • Posted on Friday, February 8, 2019Tuesday, February 5, 2019
  • by Martine Fournier Watson

Happy Birthday to The Atlas of Reds and Blues

    As you all know by now, it’s a very exciting week for us here at the ball because…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2019Monday, January 21, 2019
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: compare and contrast

I don’t have any magic formulas for the books I selected and used as comparable titles — except if you…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2018Monday, November 12, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Channeling Jean Kwok (and you can too!)

  “The query letter is…the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write” — Nicholas Spark This week’s…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2018Sunday, November 4, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Distracts, Distracting, Distractions

“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.” – Ursula K. LeGuin Well, I’m in the thick of the…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2018Thursday, November 1, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Candids

Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, October 2, 2018Monday, October 1, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: Chronicles of an X-American (part 1)

  Chronicles of an X-American (part 1) The best training is to read and write, no matter what — Grace…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2018Monday, September 17, 2018
  • by Devi Laskar

Attacus Atlas & Other Inventions: A Circuitous Route

A Circuitous Route:   The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at…

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