Posts Tagged ‘writing’
ftbc: unlocking meaning with gabriel garcia marquez
August 20, 2009
“It is by writing our stories, whether real or imagined, that we begin
a process of listening.”
2009 | books | Tags: fade theory book club, gabo, gabriel garcia marquez, living to tell the tale, online book club, reading, writingComments (0)
ftbc: gabriel garcia marquez and the writing life
August 18, 2009
“Tell him the only thing I want in life is to be a writer, and that’s what I’m going to be.”
2009 | books | Tags: fade theory book club, gabo, gabriel garcia marquez, living to tell the tale, online book club, reading, writingComments (0)
dzanc books write-a-thon
November 11, 2008
This write-a-thon is a cool idea: The idea behind the write-a-thon will be similar to bowl-a-thons, or walk-a-thons, or, well you get the picture – other a-thons that you’ve probably supported or participated in during your lifetime, only with writing being the catalyst to the raising of funds. For one day, people will volunteer to [...]
2008 | books, publishing, writing | Tags: dzanc books, non-profit, write-a-thon, writingComments (0)
the wonder singer
September 18, 2008
“Lockwood suspects that writers wear out their souls in the same way that prostitutes or spies or beggars do. When put on the spot–to write a brochure inviting retired union members to invest in waste-management start-ups or a fund-raising letter for the evangelization of Guatemala, to name two recent examples–it is not his role to [...]
2008 | books, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: freelance, george rabasa, the wonder singer, unbridled books, writingComments (0)
imperishable maxwell
September 11, 2008
John Updike has written a lovely and generous account of William Maxwell as writer in “Imperishable Maxwell.” The Library of America has republished his writings in two volumes this year. You can listen online to a related interview from All Things Considered or read this interview with Christopher Carduff (in pdf) who edited the two [...]
2008 | books, history, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: christopher carduff, editing, editor, fiction, Imperishable Maxwell, john updike, library of america, novel, the new yorker, william maxwell, writer, writingComments (0)
calling all gals
July 08, 2008
Well, not all gals, just the writing variety. That’s right, Green Lantern Press has issued a call for submissions from female writers: The Green Lantern Press is currently seeking high quality fiction submissions from female authors. Since 2006, The Green Lantern Press has published 7 books in the slow media style. 4 of these have [...]
2008 | books, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: call for submissions, green lantern press, moshe zvi marvit, paper & carriage, publishing, urbesque, women, writingComments (1)
a call for slow writing
March 20, 2008
Lindsay Waters’ A Call for Slow Writing: We need to slow down, and remember that the essay has been the main form for humanistic discourse. The book is an outlier. Many of the writings that changed the direction a scholarly community was marching toward were essays. Think of Edward Said’s “Abecedarium Culturae†or Paul de [...]
2008 | books, culture, publishing, writing | Tags: academe, books, essays, Lindsay Waters, tenure, writingComments (3)
chip kidd on the loose
Well, Chip Kidd is just everywhere again. Two examples: Chip Kidd on The Bat Segundo Show and The Chip Kidd Playlist. But why he considers Catherine Wheel heavy metal, I can’t claim to understand.
2008 | books, culture, design, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: bat segundo, book design, books, chip kidd, music, reading, writingComments (0)
the chalk vase
January 21, 2008
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2008 | design, text art, writing | Tags: chalk, chalk vase, design, text, writingComments (0)
children’s book prizes
January 17, 2008
Eyes on the Prizes: One main difference between prizes like the Caldecott and the Newbery and, say, the National Book Award or the Pulitzer, is that the children’s prizes actually sell books. Those familiar gold medals on a children’s book cover mean lasting honor for the author or illustrator and dollars to the publisher, because [...]
2008 | books, culture, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: books, Caldecott, children's books, children's literature, illustration, Newbery, prizes, reading, writingComments (0)
pulp fiction murdered long sentences
Otto Penzler, editor of The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps and owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. Click here to listen to an interview with him on NPR. (via The Informed Reader)
2008 | books, culture, history, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: Mysterious Bookshop, mystery, NPR, Otto Penzler, pulp fiction, reading, The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, writingComments (0)
a hunger for books
January 10, 2008
Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, in case you missed it. (via Father Inch)
2008 | books, culture, history, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: acceptance speech, books, Doris Lessing, literature, Nobel Prize for Literature, reading, writingComments (0)
proust and the squid
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf: This book tells the story of the reading brain, in the context of our unfolding intellectual evolution. That story is changing before our eyes and under the tips of our fingers. The next few decades will witness transformations in our [...]
2008 | books, history, reading | Tags: books, culture, history, Marcel Proust, On Reading, Proust and the Squid, reading, writingComments (0)
writing a graphic novel
January 09, 2008
How to Survive Writing a Graphic Novel. (via Drawn!)
