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July 19, 2008The second day of the Mayborn Nonfiction Literary Writers Conference was jam-packed with speakers (and attendees; the conference room at the DFW Hilton Lakes in Grapevine was stuffed to the gills). Some highlights: He called on newspapers and media in general to "believe the reader gets it ... assume the reader is smart."  Comments (0) Leave comment
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|  E-mail entryThe entry "From the Mayborn: Saturday speakers" has no entry tags. This year's Mayborn Literary Conference is off and running, as nonfiction writers, editors and agents are converging in Grapevine for celebration and conversation about the craft of nonfiction writing. Bob Shacochis was the evening's literary light. The National Book Award winner delivered a keynote speech that was described as insightful by the charitable, rambling by those less so. But it was packed with nuggets of writerly wisdom. It should be noted that he started out with praise for his hosts for boosting the city's literary stature: "I don't know what you've been putting in the water since my last book tour in the great state of Texas, which was in the year 2000. And it went to Austin, which is fabulous, fabulous. And I went to San Antonio -- great. And I went to Houston, which is -- you can suffer though, it's OK. "But your publicist was not going to send you to Dallas ... because it was sort of a literary wasteland. It was. Nobody would come -- unless you were John Grisham or Madonna, nobody is coming to your damn literary reading at Barnes & Nobles in Dallas. It's just not happening. That's not my opinion, it's most of the writers I know. "And I'm going to have to tell them they have to change their mind." Comments (0) Leave comment
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