Lost, Trapt: Fiction as Web: Salter
You never know what you’re really doing, do you? Like a spider, you are in the middle of your own web. –James Salter, from the Paris Review
View ArticleWhy Vonnegut Matters
“So it goes.” — KV Thinking about Kurt Vonnegut now, some thirty-five years since I first read him, what strikes me most is the man’s fundamental decency. This quality is sadly, all too rare in...
View ArticleHemingway: Writing at First Light
… I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write… You write until you come to a...
View ArticleOf Interest: Westerns? Really? Paris Review discount. Art Journal gets webby
Paul De Witt writes a Western, and then talks about it here. Is there new life in this hoary old form? The Western, of course, found a new Renaissance in film with Clint Eastwood‘s Unforgiven, but...
View ArticleCharles Simic on Writing Poems
Good advice from Charles Simic, former Poet Laureate and monster poet, on writing poems. Click here. “Remember, a poem is a time machine you are constructing, a vehicle that will allow someone to...
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