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Author: Kevin Holtsberry

I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
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Oscar Wilde

Posted on May 28, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

In case you haven’t noticed by some of the quotes around here, I have been reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. I picked up a handy Bar...

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On being a writer

Posted on May 27, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

There have been some interesting posts around the the literary blogosphere on writing and/or on being a writer. I thought I would make a note of them here in ca...

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Oscar Wilde on art and books

Posted on May 26, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner o...

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Posted on May 25, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

If I was a shy reticent person I might not announce my birthday in some sort of grand pronouncement. But then if I was shy and reticent what are the odds I woul...

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Posted on May 24, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

A science fiction classic about a boy genius on whose tiny shoulders the hopes of the world rest.

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Thought for the day: Passion

Posted on May 23, 2004 by Kevin Holtsberry

[P]assion dulls one’s sense of discrimination and yields in all seriousness to charms that sobriety would treat as a joke or reject with indignation. R...

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