Sam Harrelson

I’m in love with the new service Wordie.
“Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it. It’s more fun than it sounds.”
Here’s a sample of a word list from the front page…

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1. A Happy Hour’s Command

DOWN in the Woods, July 2d, 1882.—If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings, war-memoranda of 1862–’65, Nature-notes of 1877–’81, with Western and Canadian observations afterwards, all bundled up and tied by [...]

The New Atlantis - The Self-Portrait of a Scientist - Christine Rosen
The memoirs of scientists can also offer insights into the broader culture of science, and perhaps help answer questions that are deeply important to all of us: How democratic is science? How useful or accurate is it, in the twenty-first century, to [...]

I began to wonder why people hate reading. Why do they say it so calmly? Why do they say it to me? Once they would have hid the truth and pretended to care.
I think the answer I came up with is interesting, and I want to tell it to you, and I want you to [...]

“Don’t you drink?  I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle.  I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.  When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on [...]

“My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.”
Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 174

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Reading Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in America (flipping through it after a few beers actually) and came across a letter to John Lombardi, the then Rolling Stone editor that HST was assigned to.
At the end of the letter, HST writes…
“I resent your assumption that Music is Not My Bag (or whatever you said)… [...]

I mean I love my Moleskine’s (almost up to a dozen), but come on!…

I was walking down the street in New York City when I heard a light “thwap” followed by a sense of pressure on my chest. I reached for the area instinctively and felt only the Moleskine. notebook in the inside pocket of [...]

Here’s the formal Query I’ve written for my next book, A New Heaven and the New Earth - Southern Baptists in a New Century. Comments, suggestions, concerns and pointers are greatly welcomed and stronly encouraged in the comments section below or by email.
If any of you out there know any good literary agents, feel [...]