around Uruguay selling garlic, so I began to write his story from every direction I could think of. ... factual events and known results, essayists should try to write without intention or conclusion, to let ... conversations on this very idea, because so many writers enjoy the way writing can surprise us. And while I’d be ...
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dysfunction escalate. By now I've published enough so that I can give up trying to teach Algebra and ... begin to teach creative writing in a university where the con fessions of my students halt me in my ... Page 500 from Issue 107-108 TRIQUARTERLY Alaska. I cook, he's a deck hand. The ill ...
father left the family. And when Turcotte was about ten-years-old, he returned to Lansing with his mother ... up having that teacher for seven or eight years. Or the school was so small that even if you didn’t ... a magazine. But I also feel like I write books. So even if it’s a book that’s never published, I’m still ...
like to be humiliated by his high school baseball coach. “Write the whole book,” she told me, “with the ... particular work we’re trying to develop. When I read manuscripts in progress written by my MFA students or by ... present self. I wanted to see if I could explain how a teenage baseball fanatic turned out to be a writing ...
School is a partial exception to this rule, trying to make room for students who are only half committed ... read a ten-minute paper to an audience at a professional meeting. Or, if the appointment is at a higher ... department were one to ten, that five of these ten students dropped out without taking a Ph.D., and that the ...
(p. 30) and that he shot stray cats for fun (p. 51). Narrative comment on his cowardice and emotional ... [emotional energy had never been his forte and] he said nothing •. • (p. 214) Franz's original ... Singer machine while he tried to sleep. How could he have endured it so long?] (p. 55) She questioned him ...
writing. If a student makes a debatable assertion about “craft,” let’s say, or is impeded in writing her ... writing. I kind of went crazy trying to understand where these rules came from and why they were so ... being a poem he really didn’t want to write. The speaker is an old man confronting his own death, and ...
earlier figures. The same young man today, if he were still in the essay-writing business, would obviously ... have his hands full, and anyway he would probably decide the whole idea would be better left to a black ... Page 80 from Issue 23-24 During the school year 1958-59, a white suburban middle-class Ivy League ...
(originally published in Defunkt Magazine) that he, in his casually brilliant way, gave me the nudge I needed ... to doing so. As in: Say something if you can, but you and I both know that you may be taking ... not least of all because it has been so good for my writing (and my psyche). Here are some crucial ...
if I may use student jargon," Elbert was careful to say. So if consistency were all, I could ... simply make Elbert write an article describ ing one of the numerous quizzes that he used to keep his ... school." At least, Elbert wrote, his course gave students a number of facts that they obviously lacked. As ...
