ramblings – BEN BERMAN GHAN

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The Wrath of Khan

August 28, 2017

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Articles, Ben Berman Ghan, Books, Editing, Kurt Vonnegut, Literature, Personal Essay, Rambling, Writing, Wychman Road

The Ink-Stained-Wretch

November 25, 2016

It’s hard to say where the expression Ink-Stained-Wretch originates. Though I have found almost no reliable sources, at least one researcher told me in passing that the phrase comes from Canadian novelist Hugh Garner. Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Deadeye Dick attributes it to Alexander Woollcott, but this is probably wrong as well. To great alarm, I…
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Articles, Ben Berman Ghan, Books, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Nanowrimo, Personal Essay, Ray Bradbury, Writing, Wychman Road

Nanowrimo, or how I learned to stop word-counting and love the bomb

November 28, 2015

Hello writers and readers. As this is written, it is the end of November. While most people know November as that month where basically nothing happens, other than American Thanksgiving, some of you know it as Nanowrimo! (For those not in the know, that’s National Novel Writing Month) This is the month where all around…
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