writing as shoplifting
My mother was an avid shoplifter. She is Bipolar and prone to extreme behaviors, to put it mildly (I’ll tell you about visiting murderers in prison in another entry). I’ve always thought of her as a combination of...
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writing in time
Well, here I am talking about time again (in my comments to Liza’s entry). My forthcoming book is about time, so it is an obsession of mine. In this case, though, I am thinking very practically. Is it necessary to write a...
Read MoreWhy aren’t there bookstores like this here?
I’m just back from Paris where, of course, I had to visit the famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore. The original bookstore was owned by Sylvia Beach from New Jersey, and was the hang-out of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce,...
Read Morepreserving writing thoughts
A few entries ago, Liza wrote about finding a defining sentence and putting it on a sticky note (an idea stemming from Elizabeth Partridge’s lecture). It made me think of the many ways we, as writers, work, and also how we...
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August is here, and children have descended for beach and board games. I’d forgotten the fun of making (and consuming) giant family meals. In that wedge of time between the residency and now, I managed to write like heck,...
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