Outside where I work there are two homeless people jamming. One is playing flute, the other, guitar. There’s no better…
Write Your Best Fake Hosho McCreesh Poem Title Contest
Overwhelmed by the kind responses to last week’s post, Hosho McCreesh is graciously offering his last two remaining author’s copies…
Crap Crap, Glorious Crap
There’s a thoughtful post in the Barrelhouse blog abt the movie “Four Christmases” and making fiction “happen.” I think this…
“[T]he pseudo-intellectuals at Big Other…”
Nigel Beale, a “writer, broadcaster, bibliophile,” and, it appears, fan of and apologist for James Wood, insults Big Other’s contributors…
Deform this book!
Lake Forest College hosts The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize. The deadline for the 2011 residency–which comes with…
Unearned
I have been coming to the conclusion lately that we learn more about how fiction does and doesn’t work from…
Why Do We Have Readings? (A Polemic)
This is an intro I wrote for a panel discussion that I moderated last September: “Why Do We Have Poetry…
Kathleen Rooney & Writers’ Loyalties
Is anybody following Kathleen Rooney’s situation? I felt legitimately shaken up earlier this week when I found out Kathleen (I…
For those of you with students of the creative writing persuasion…
Please tell them about the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts. This is the best summer writing…
Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile
This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I…