therefore Facebook appears to be all about me, while personal essays (the good ones) are all about us. “Two ... Susan McCallum-Smith Monday, April 18, 2011 Craft Essay This essay, adapted for TriQuarterly ... progression of such familial flotsam, now taken up residence in the back of my hall closet, where it skulks ...
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a poet will be done and you never have to worry about it again. Ultimately, the most natural thing any ... in your slow writing process for poems. This made me think of Viet Tanh Nguyen’s essay on the value ... of slow thinking in writing/the humanities in general. I’d love to hear more about your journey, ...
Michael Copperman Thursday, June 12, 2014 Craft Essay All prose writers have their tendencies, the ... tool they return to and rely on. For some, it’s skill with dialogue, humor in the back-and-forth, an ... tendency: I love retrospection, that most powerful form of reflection when one steps out of the immediate ...
theater. Action: Write a memoir–slash–case study about prevalence of psychopaths in author’s family and in ... A weeklong workshop in “writing the memoir” Players: Seven writers and me, the teacher Act I A woman ... “Yes,” she says. “It was a memoir, and they all rejected it.” “So you rewrote it?” “Yes,” she says. “I ...
Michael Steinberg Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Craft Essay We shape [a piece of writing] in order to ... it. —Mark Doty When I talk shop with other writers, especially about works in progress—be it ... memoir began to take what eventually became its final shape. It’s also when I started to rely a lot more ...
a memoir.” As the tradition enters its fifth decade, it seems important to explore how craft and ... Honor Moore Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Craft Essay In the forty years since the publication of ... experience that is truly remarkable. But still I meet writers who insist they don’t want to write “just ...
following anthologies: The Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday-Anchor, 1994); Writing New York (Library of ... Anchor Essay Annual (1997-99), and the forthcoming American Movie Critics (Library of America, 2006). His ... January 1, 2012 Craft Essay The Made-Up Self Phillip Lopate Issue 139 Winter/Spring 2011 Saturday, January ...
Nabokovian memoir, but it really started when I wrote a short essay about it for the “Lost and Found” column ... that learning to divide one’s writing into genres is only partly about craft. It is also about entering ... Craft Essay Introduction By Tess Taylor Recently, when convening a panel to discuss what one might mean ...
Catina Bacote Tuesday, December 1, 2015 Craft Essay I’m writing a book that is both a memoir and ... about his death. It has only been in the last few years, because of my writing, that we have started to ... everyone else who was studying and writing about the violence in New Haven attributed it to poverty. ...
memoir for $2.99 on Kindle. According to Brevity: It offers more of Tom Larson’s intelligent, accessible ... insight and close-reading of essayists and memoirists. It is the latter that makes Larson’s writing so ... the page. Brevity will post follow-up from Larson about the e-book publication process in about ...