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Jan.21.2013
In The Sense of Beauty, Santayana says “Beauty, as we feel it, is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.... It is an affection of the soul, a consciousness of joy and security, a pang, a dream, a pure pleasure. It suffuses an object without telling why; nor has it...
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Oct.13.2011
Despite frustration that much of short fiction suffers from too much control from MFA programs and graduates, there is value to having an MFA. It will improve your writing and chances of publishing.
However, not everyone has the time or money (20 to 30 hours per week and $20,000 to $30,...
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Sep.15.2011
The other night I went to a reading by Sven Birkerts of his new memoir at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. It was a nice reading for a number of reasons, not the least of which was observing how he has structured the book and his reasoning behind doing so.
Essentially, the memoir is...
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Sep.03.2011
This is actually a word I saw on http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/amazons-new-author-feature-launches-and... in which the truly horrendous trend of total access to writers by (and total pablum-feeding to) readers is touted as a good thing.
Essentially, authors, reduced to caged and perpetually...
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Apr.09.2008
Every fictional narrative, whether or not emergent from an actual history or preexisting story, will lay down its own laws. ...
Over at the Critical Mass literary blog, one of the current PEN/Faulkner Award judges, Molly Giles, offers a glimpse of her experience sorting through the boxes and boxes...
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