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I pride myself on being an autodidact when it comes to techie stuff, and I’ve done pretty well, especially considering I’m an analog age English major. But I do spend an inordinate amount of time banging my head against walls when I am trying to learn something, not because I’m a slow learner, but because [...]
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Now that Michael Cunningham spilled–in O, The Oprah Magazine, for heaven’s sake–everyone can read about the thing that writers seldom talk about: the joy of writing. [read on...]
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It can be challenging to find a quiet space to work — even when you're alone. [read on...]
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It's a holiday. Lots of time to write today. Hand me the chair and whip, please. [Read on...]
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In the midst of puzzling and fretting over a writing issue the other day, I remembered for the zillionth time that writing is a metaphor for living. And so I decided: keep on puzzling and stop fretting. [read on...]
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Colm Toibin writes about how a "stray anecdote"
told by one adult to another when he happened to be in the room as a child stayed in his mind and grew into a novel. "If those two women had known I was listening so
intently," he says, I am sure my mother would have decided that [...]
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HOW TO HIRE A POETby Lezlie Laws
The first thing I do is looks at the candidate's writing. Resumes can lie, but the writing can't. So I take the manuscripts [read on...]
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While I can’t help but be amazed and inspired to use my time well by the example of an author who wrote his first novel during his daily subway commute, I doubt that his (or anyone’s) cell phone will ever be as revered as Kerouac’s scroll or Hemingway’s typewriter.
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I have at least four copies of The Elements of Style: a reproduction of the original
White-less version; the fourth edition with a foreword by Roger Angell;
a fun edition illustrated by Maira Kalman and inscribed "To Mommy, my
favorite editor" by a soon-to-be-famous journalist; and a well-worn, dustless copy I have had ever since Dr. Maloney's [...]
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