Burnside Writer's Collective

Donald Miller and some others have a new website called the Burnside Writers Collective. It has articles, reviews, a promising social justice section, and some pretty funny and insightful observations on American culture. Here's an example from Donald Miller:

I recently pitched a book to a publisher entitled “A Billion Little Pieces.”

Because readers have grown suspicious of the memoir genre, I began my book with a pledge of honesty, referring vaguely to the controversial memoir with a similar (though numerically inferior) title.

My pledge read:

“In an age when authors embellish historical accounts for dramatic effect, and in so doing delude hope for recovery, the author of this book swears to be forthright in every turn.”

The first sentence of my book then read:

“The moist breeze woke me, and though my vision was tinged red through the bubble-blood rings round my left cornea, I squinted to see I was gripping the wing of a 747 landing at Denver International Airport. ‘How did I get here?’ I wondered to myself, and ‘Why does that building look like a circus tent?’”