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Home / home / Episode 8 of LFTRR Explains the “First Page Test”

May 27 2020

Episode 8 of LFTRR Explains the “First Page Test”

James J. Patterson is the reluctant scholar and on this (the eighth!) episode of Live from the Reading Room, he reads the from his essay of the same name. He also reads from books that have passed his "First Page Test" including "Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Muse" by Jessie Burton, "The Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, and "Confessions" by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.

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Submitting to Literary Journals: Three Quick Tips for Beginners

August 4, 2023

Writing can be a labor of love. Finishing a piece that you’re proud of feels like a Herculean accomplishment at times. Taking the next step and starting a whole new […]

A Celebration of Prose: James J. Patterson and Aaron Hamburger Read at The Writer’s Center

July 7, 2023

On June 16th, following the release of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature, James J. Patterson gave a reading at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland—“the center […]

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James J. Patterson’s Junk Shop Window on E. Ethelbert Miller’s On the Margin

June 1, 2023

By Eylie Sasajima To celebrate the upcoming release of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature, on June 6, ASP’s James J. Patterson was interviewed on E. Ethelbert […]

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