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Camera Obscura rejected "Children":
Dear Margaret Clark ( Read more... ) -
For Future Reference!
I'm at work right now, but the first line of a short story popped in my head, and I had to set it down somewhere.
"The tall, tremulous man at the front counter looked desperate to draw her into his mythologies of family life, and for a moment she feared it was working."
What kind of writing are you working on at present? -
A Hearty Recommendation
If you have Google Chrome, you should use it to view this interactive music video from Arcade Fire.
Do it. Do it now. -
One article against CW programs, and a modest counter
#1. Elif Batuman -- Get a Real Degree
The ideal of self-expression also explains the programme’s privileging of ‘fiction’: where ‘non-fiction’ is burdened by factual content, and ‘literature’ is burdened by a canon of classics, ‘fiction’ is taken to be a pure vessel for inner content."
#2. Joshua Corey -- The Burning Typewriter
"You do need to ( Read more... ) -
So much love to you all
Every time I try to write something here I find myself rather speechless ( Read more... ) -
Confession
Every time I sit down to write poetry, the first line that pops into my head is "Tonight I can write the saddest lines."
Every. Time. -
Wise words, Le Guin
I picked up Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a collection of short stories spanning ten years of her writing life after publication, from the library this afternoon. I'm in love. It's not just the writing itself, which is extraordinary in its grounding of scifi happenstance in the terms of its anticipated readers' society (yielding a ( Read more... ) -
Nabokov fever!
I am delighted by the decision to publish the 999-line poem in Pale Fire as a stand-alone work this fall. So much meta commentary I want to make surrounding this publication's meaning. So much work I have to finish before I can get back to fun analysis like this. :( -
(Untitled)
In the room
only shadows
of the room.
