Valerie Miner Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Craft Essay This is the last in a series of four essays ... Minnesota. Of course it’s important that we not assume we all have the same students or contexts. Yet in each ... nature of absence. We think about historical place, remember that whether we set our stories in 1812 or ...
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something totally different. And I started thinking about that. Particularly Charles Olson, his essays, was ... was talking about Balzac and saying that he thought that Balzac was not a genius in spite of his bad ... I went with that right away. Just thinking about American prose writers that I like, I liked Dreiser when ...
nonfiction is in its abstract expressionist phase.) Do you agree—not necessarily about abstract ... think Emerson is speaking about the essay form, but I love imagining that he is. I love to imagine ... lead. It’s one of the elements I most enjoy about what I call the “pure” essay, or perhaps the ...
I wrote an essay once about how, in grief, I often feel as if I am living in two times at once. Not ... A Novel (Little A, August 2020), Craft in the Real World (Catapult Books, January 2021), and an essay ... lightly edited. TQ: You’ve written a lot about the cultural context of craft, particularly how teaching ...
think about it like that. Still, too bad he's gotta work up here." "I figure ... said. "Can you imagine that? The students take the tests, not me, but this idiot Colon thinks ... I do, only because he's harassing me. And it's not even his job. We hate each ...
dozen or so short essays about as many deaths; Didion’s, in The Year of Magical Thinking, focuses on ... Michael Downs Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Craft Essay To begin, a confession: structure baffles me. ... draft and stuck with it. Mozart, I’ve heard, could look skyward and see the construction of his scores ...
would be to place it at the visible center of his work. But the problem is not so simple. To begin with, ... Page 124 from Issue 80 ordinary is very hard to see. If he solves that problem, the prosaic writer ... faces a second one: how does he make the story interesting? It would seem that drama distorts, but lack ...
subjects. Brooks Haxton writes the sort of openly autobiographical poems, about or 250 Issue 80 page Willard ... Spiegelman Essay Essay Issue 80 Print Share Tweet ... Appearing and Disappearing Selves Print Pages: Page 250 from Issue 80 Reviews: Appearing and ...
instruction. It looks to paraphrase dynamic image into static narrative: to costume the subject. The ... the most interesting and best executed of the Keatsian illustratons-a narrative at once immersed in ... fit the frame, illustration sacrifices spontaneity for the sake of construct, manipulation, moral ...
Page 130 from Issue 80 to know what really caused the events of the period, that it is only ... solution to a difficult esthetic problem. Tolstoy's two major novels combine negative narration ... whatever histories or historical novels do narrate turns out almost by definition to be inconsequential. In ...
