Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Published Today in The Rumpus
I’ve got a short piece published today in the latest Rumpus Readers Report on the theme “Misery Loves Company.” Check it out here, among the others. Thanks to Susan Clements for taking my piece.
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Tags: Misery Loves Company, publications, Readers Report, The Rumpus, writing
I just read a bit of advice about “writing what you know” from John Wray over at The Center for Fiction, and it rang true. Here’s an excerpt: It’s fine to ground one’s fiction in known, lived experience—it’s a kind of shortcut to authority, an absolute necessity for all effective writing—but it’s just as important […]
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Tags: advice, John Wray, The Center for Fiction, writing
He’s the first rock musician and an honorary inductee as of Wednesday. Jacket Copy had the scoop.
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Tags: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Bob Dylan, rock music, writing
Every writer probably knows this already, but keeping a journal, diary, or just a notebook handy to jot down thoughts and impressions, pieces of dialogue overheard, etc., is an incredible tool. I found this old article from Psychology Today that states the case more profoundly in terms of maintaining creative flow.
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Tags: Creativity, Journals, Notebooks, Psychology Today, Writer's Block, writing
Writers Can’t Retire, Can They?
Nice piece by Bill Morris at The Millions about writers who’ve declared their retirements, stopped writing, then sort of kept writing, or really kept writing. I often think about not writing. Usually I tend to take weekends off, but even then, I sneak in a few words. Or I’m thinking about characters, so I’m writing […]
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Tags: Bill Morris, essay, Henry Miller, The Millions, writing
“Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical. Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this means sounding apocalyptic.” Read the full interview here.
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Tags: books, Interview Magazine, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poetry, reading, The Beats, writing
Read “Inventory,” an excerpt from Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop founder Julia Fierro’s newly completed novel, The End of the World as We Know It, here in Guernica.
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Tags: Guernica, Julia Fierro, novel excerpt, writing
A Tribute to David Berman
Thomas Beller writes about David Berman, the poet and Silver Jews frontman, (with snippets of Open City history) in Tablet Magazine. Read it here. American Water by Silver Jews is probably on my top-five albums list. One of the ones I’d bring on a desert island with me.
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Tags: American Water, David Berman, Music, Open City, poetry, Silver Jews, Thomas Beller, writing
I was just thinking of Kurt Vonnegut over the weekend. I might’ve even had a dream about him, where it was declared by me or someone else that he was the greatest American writer. And now, lo and behold, there’s an interview in The Rumpus with Nanette, his daughter, and we’re coming up on what […]
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Tags: books, interviews, Kurt Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, The Rumpus, writers, writing
