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Paul Strauss wrote to me about a free service:
"The paragraph of the day, is a weekday e-mail that contains a short piece of fine prose. The paragraphs come from a variety of sources - mainly novels, letters, histories, and magazines. Some people say they need the paragraph of the day as much as their morning coffee and nicotine gum.
The e-mails are free. There is a website that has an archive of prior paragraphs.
While many of the paragraphs were written by well-known authors, they also come from books that are not seen very often now, and from contemporary books and articles that might have been missed. Past paragraphs have come from the following, for example:
J. Christopher Herold, Love in Five Temperaments (1961)
Andrea Lee, Sarah Phillips (1984)
Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album (1987)
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding (1946)
Lorrie Moore, "Agnes of Iowa," Granta (1996)
If you want to receive paragraphs by e-mail, you can subscribe on the www.tpotd.net site. You don't have to worry that you will be stuck with it if you don't like it - every e-mail includes an 'unsubscribe' button."
"The paragraph of the day, is a weekday e-mail that contains a short piece of fine prose. The paragraphs come from a variety of sources - mainly novels, letters, histories, and magazines. Some people say they need the paragraph of the day as much as their morning coffee and nicotine gum.
The e-mails are free. There is a website that has an archive of prior paragraphs.
While many of the paragraphs were written by well-known authors, they also come from books that are not seen very often now, and from contemporary books and articles that might have been missed. Past paragraphs have come from the following, for example:
J. Christopher Herold, Love in Five Temperaments (1961)
Andrea Lee, Sarah Phillips (1984)
Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album (1987)
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding (1946)
Lorrie Moore, "Agnes of Iowa," Granta (1996)
If you want to receive paragraphs by e-mail, you can subscribe on the www.tpotd.net site. You don't have to worry that you will be stuck with it if you don't like it - every e-mail includes an 'unsubscribe' button."
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2 Comments:
Thanks for the wonderful link. I just subscribed.
Thanks for visiting and commenting! I thought this resource especially helpful for new writers who may not know where to turn to find good writing. The excerpts are short enough to read every day, but good enough to teach you something useful.
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