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Category Archives: craft
Tryouts
I’ve always loved the form of the personal essay. As a teenager, I loved reading Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines, largely because of the personal essays in their pages by writers such as Mary Cantwell. A Google search leads me to … Continue reading
Posted in craft, reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Best American Essays, braided essay, Brenda Miller, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction classes, essais de Montaigne, essayer, Glamour, Glen Online, Julia Reed, Lindsey Crittenden, lyrical essay, Mademoiselle, Mary Cantwell, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, personal essays, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant, the hermit-crab essay, UC Berkeley Extension, Walt Whitman, West Village, women's magazines, writing
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Let It Shine
There will be no post next week, January 13. I’ll be back January 20. Epiphany. That’s what today is, on the church calendar: the Feast of the Epiphany. Twelfth night. The magi—three wise men—showed up to pay homage to the … Continue reading
Posted in craft, faith, spirituality, teaching, writing
Tagged " "Guests of the Nation, " Denis Johnson, " Edith Wharton, " Edna O'Brien, " Frank O'Connor, " lyricism, "Beverly Home, "Roman Fever, "The Dead, "the Love Object, Araby, Aristotle, Bullet in the Brain, Dubliners, epiphany, feast of the epiphany, fiction writing, Hollywood, James Joyce, Lindsey Crittenden, literary technique, magi, manifestation, manifestation of the divine, power, revelation, storytelling, teaching, three wise men, Tobias Wolff, transcendence
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Don’t ask, don’t tell
Note: there will be no post next Friday, 12/30. Check back 1/6/12. Happy New Year! The question comes up at parties, over dinner with new friends, next to a chatty traveler on an airplane. The inevitable ice-breaker— What do you … Continue reading
Posted in craft, writing
Tagged 1969 moon landing, anguished question, Away from Trees, childhood, courthouse, creative process, drafting process, fiction, fiction themes, fiction workshop, fiction writing, ghost town, intuition, kidnapping, loss, planting symbols, revision, Wallace Stegner
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