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Jan.08.2009
_I bring you some water lost in your memory--
follow me to the spring and find itssecret._
--Patricede la Tour Du Pin
One fall day...
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Jan.06.2009
Speaking of Silence
Language and silence have always been bedfellows. Most writers know the silence of the blank page. And there's a different, deeply important silence, in which the voice of the writer seems to go underground. Tillie Olsen speaks of this in a seminal work...
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Jan.05.2009
I just saw a movie of Jane Eyre, and Mr. Rochester is morereal than Mr. Darcy. “Deeply flawed” as people would say, and willing to be abigamist so he can marry Jane. Eventually, he does--but not without tumultuous events.
I remember visiting the manse on the heath where Charlotte Bronte lived as a...
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Apr.03.2008
Writing Programs and Group Minds
Group minds--collections of people who think about various things in the same way--are everywhere. And the fact that they exist in art, which is supposed to be original, is a paradox that all writers face. There are many facets to this paradox. They concern...
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Apr.02.2008
I'm going to make a somewhat radical proposition:
Writing to a stranger makes it easier to create a poem or story that feels complete to the writer and comes alive in the imagination of other people.
This proposition flies in the face of two beloved ideas about writing. First: if you're stuck, it...
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Feb.03.2008
This community of writers is joining to support Patry Francis and her book, The Liar's Diary, released on January 29th 2008. I don't know Patry personally but I feel connected to her through the world of writers.
I also know that a book tour is the one of the few opportunites for the author and her...
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Jan.05.2008
The Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer once complained that American writers try to create quick roots for their stories. "I grew up on a little street in Krakow," he said, "and almost everybody I've written about came from that one street. I remember every face. I...
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About Thaisa
Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction, (her sixth book) and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel, Heidegger’s Glasses, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground...
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