Michael Livingston

Mar

24

Review of “A Very Young Boy with Largely Clipped Wings”

2008 | Filed Under Fiction | Leave a Comment

J. C. Runolfson over at The Fix reviews the latest issue of Shimmer: the “art issue” wherein writers were asked to write to the inspiration of artwork rather than the usual story-inspiring-art scenario. It’s a very thorough, very insightful review of the issue, with some rather kind things to say about my own contribution [...]

Mar

22

Jordan Induction Recalled

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | 3 Comments

A recollection of the South Carolina Academy of Authors induction ceremony for James O. Rigney, Jr. (Robert Jordan) that I attended two weeks ago has been posted on “Robert Jordan’s Official Blog” over at the esteemed dragonmount.com. The touching write-up is by Wilson, Jim’s brother/cousin, whom I may have met that night without realizing [...]

Mar

21

Ancient Alexandria

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The novel I’m writing requires at least a workable map of Alexandria during the reign of Cleopatra, a fact made especially clear in chapters such as the one I’m writing now: in it, Cleopatra’s daughter, Selene, walks from the docks of the Great Harbor to the famed Great Library itself. I had thought that [...]

Mar

19

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 12

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Mar

17

Protected: Four Shards of Heaven: Chapter 11

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Mar

17

Alexandria’s Anniversary

2008 | Filed Under Academics, Fiction | 3 Comments

In the midst of writing a coming chapter of Four Shards, I realized that 31 BCE, the year of Antony and Cleopatra’s defeat at the Battle of Actium and thus the practical end of the rule of the Ptolemies (if not quite their physical end), was exactly 300 years after the founding of Alexandria by [...]

Mar

13

Research on Actium

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As most site readers are aware, the novel I’m in the midst of writing — the first one I think I’ll try to sell — is largely set during those stormy years in which the Roman Republic dissolved and the Roman Empire was established in its place. As the one-line summation of Four Shards [...]

Mar

9

Induction of Robert Jordan into the SC Academy of Authors

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Last night, in the Riverview Room here at The Citadel, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (known to readers by many names, including Robert Jordan) was posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
As I told many of the other attendees of the induction ceremony, I would have been happy just to peek in [...]

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