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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Is It O.K. to Mine Real Relationships for Literary Material?

  • Post published:April 23, 2014
  • Post category:Craft
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When Robert Lowell used his ex-wife’s letters for his poetry, Elizabeth Bishop told him, “Art just isn’t worth that much.” This week, Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison discuss what they make of mining actual relationships for literary material.

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The End, or Something

  • Post published:April 22, 2014
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Endings have always been my Everest. Or, really, if writing a novel is like climbing Everest, then my tendency is to get within eyeshot of the summit and say, “Well, that’s far enough.”

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Magic In Service of Truth

  • Post published:April 21, 2014
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Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tells us that the books are still very much alive.

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Should Sleep

  • Post published:April 16, 2014
  • Post category:Asides/Dad On His Feet
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Should be in bed. Should be asleep. Instead, I'm wasting time. At least that's what it feels like. I'm between books. I'm not working on a story, poem, or the…

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Crowdfunding Scintilla

  • Post published:April 14, 2014
  • Post category:Publishing
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I started Scintilla three years ago to get back into the literary world of publishing and to learn how to work with Wordpress and PHP. Some friends had begun The Cupboard…

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Review: Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

  • Post published:April 8, 2014
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Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Raising Steam, feels like the 40th book in the series. By now the pattern is set. Pratchett picks something to satirize and away we go…

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Where Do We Learn?

  • Post published:April 1, 2014
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Reflecting on teaching this semester and what I've learned throughout my life, a simple question came to mind: where do we learn? The quick answer may be school. But, it's so much broader than school.

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