I’m running a little writing seminar in/around Big Sur in a week or so, and could use a few prose exercises. I remember Mary L’s lovely first line/first page presentation during the summer residency, but could always...
Read MoreA. O. Scott calls the new movie (“Bright Star”) about Keats and Fanny Brawne “porn for English majors.” And there is an awful lot of yearning with their clothes on, some of it in iambic pentameter. At one...
Read MoreI’m between novels of any kind — novels-in-verse/novels out of verse — so I’m reading a lot of poetry and writing a poem a day. Usually a bad one. I’m like Mary L. in that I give myself assignments...
Read MoreI heard Lorrie Moore downtown at the L. A. Central Library. Among other things she talked about when she wrote. Like me, she was a morning writer and, unlike me, a big coffee drinker. (I drink only a little.) She was very funny...
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