Marion Blackburn 
Fiction Daily
The secret of writing is the rhythm of urgency. - Jack Kerouac
Info (at) marionblackurn.net
Greenville, NC
ph: 252.931.0728
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We interrupt this Web site with the news that Marion Blackburn's creative writing is temporarily on hold while she campaigns for Greenville, N.C. City Council. Her blog, Fiction Daily, will return in November, although she will post irregularly from time to time. Visit the official campaign site at www.MarionBlackburn.com
Rest in Peace, Annie Karenina 1999-2009. We missed her so much we got another Walker Hound. So let's have a big Fiction Daily welcome to MAYBERRY
Atamasco lily at Medoc
Hiking to Wolf Rock with Geppeto.
This Polish director's works probe human nature, give us sadness and joy, always shadowed by melancholy ...
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Visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama online
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Check out the Literary Links at upper right.
Audio Postcard from Public Radio East: Marion and her sister run in the Komen Race for the Cure
COMMENTARY: Strangers in the Night
A feature profile on the late writer David Foster Wallace examines the complexity of this serious writing talent for our times.
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JACK KEROUAC: THE MYTHICAL SCROLL
The 120-foot long manuscript of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was on view in New York, along with notebooks, novel outlines, notes, paintings and sketches that show Kerouac's complexity as a writer and artist. U-Tex Austin exhibit here.
MYTHIC MILES Part One & Part Two
PUBLIC RADIO EAST diary of Kerouac in New York
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ON THE SAFFRON PATH Special section A three-part audio diary of Marion's journey to see the Dalai Lama in Atlanta, which aired on Public Radio East. Download here.A blossom, a man a promise -- Seeing His Holiness the Dalai Lama brings hope
Audio from His Holiness, 14th Dalai Lama
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My mother, the stripper
Raising a Cannon from Queen Anne's Revenge
Former blog is here
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Marion Blackburn is a writer whose creative projects include short stories, essays and a novel in progress. Professional projects include magazine and feature writing, brochures, marketing and narratives.
For short stories, click here
For Fiction Daily, click here
A special section on Jack Kerouac
A special section on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
For professional projects, click here
For Public Radio features, click here
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Spain's Failed Outpost
A new article in Archaeology Magazine
by Marion Blackburn
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From the New York Times
Even if the world were perfect, it wouldn't be: Yogi Berra
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Figuratively Speaking on Public Radio East
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FINDING JACK KEROUAC IN N.C. & NEW YORK
Visit these links
- No. 1 in Nurses
- Commentaries
- Playing it Safe
- Research Under the Microscope
- Feature Articles
- Short Stories
Info (at) marionblackurn.net
Greenville, NC
ph: 252.931.0728
