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Of Interest: Dealing with Jealousy
Best advice yet on how to deal with writerly jealousy, envy and bitterness. “There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.” Highly...
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Of Interest: Stephen Burt on Reviewing
“I want the new, or the old made new, and if I can’t have the new I want sense, and I am aware, as a reader and as a critic and as a writer, of my own limited time.” The esteemed poetry critic Stephen...
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Of Interest: Jennifer Egan’s Rules for Writing Novels (and winning the...
Jennifer Egan, who just won the National Book Critic Circle Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, gives advice on writing. Click here. Most interesting...
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Of Interest: Literary Fashion and Power
Excellent essay in the Poetry Foundation‘s Harriet blog about poetic fashions: why some are in, why some are out, and why some are permanently out in the great Fashion Show that is Po-Biz. Click here....
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Grow Up, Get a Job, Quit Scribbling… Sigh…
I felt that I had a gift, but I had got into the habit of thinking that it was insignificant. Purely external causes are sufficient to make one unjust to oneself, suspicious, and morbidly sensitive…...
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A Really Big Elephant Walks Into a Bar and Says Yep I’m Gonna Publish Books
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that amazon.com will enter the book publishing business as early as this July. Looks like their original publishing focus will be on romance, science fiction,...
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Two Senses of Salvation: Flannery O’Connor, Glimmer Twins
… If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal. People without hope not only do not write novels, but...
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Open Culture’s (Excellent) List of Best Non-Fiction Ever
Bat Terrier applauds Open Culture‘s smart list of essential non-fiction. (Click here for the list.) Have you ever seen Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, undoubtedly one of the best books ever written, on...
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Reading As Resistance: Turn Off the Machines
“And here’s the function that the book – the paper book that doesn’t beep or flash or link or let you watch a thousand videos all at once – does for you that nothing else will. It gives you the...
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Andrew Miller on Characterization
Andrew Miller has a good article on how to create fictional characters in today’s Guardian. Click here. Very smart; well worth reading. Extracts: “No one writes for long without understanding that they...
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