Category Archives: reading

Playtime

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I read with interest Gina Gionfriddo’s article in last Sunday’s New York Times about her new play’s “inadvertent homage” to Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles. Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn—which opened this week at Playwrights Horizons, the same theater where Heidi … Continue reading →

Posted in community, craft, reading, writing | Tagged Amy Herzog, Arts & Leisure, Berkeley Rep, betrayal, Blister, Burn, Christopher Isherwood, elementary school, friendship, Gina Gionfriddo, Heidi Chronicles, Heidi Holland, Jane Eyre, Lindsey Crittenden, melancholic temperment, narrative arc, New York Times, plays, playwrights, Playwrights Horizon, playwriting, Rapture, Stephen Karam, The Water Will Hold You, unpredictable climax, volleyball, Wendy Wasserstein | 4 Comments

Sick Day

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Sickly characters hold a certain romanticized (sickly) appeal. Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Mary Ingalls (once she went blind) in the Little House books. Jane Eyre’s pious childhood friend Helen Burns. Beth in Little Women. Joan Didion in her … Continue reading →

Posted in reading | Tagged "In Bed", Beth March, characters, cinnamon toast, fakery, headaches, Helen Burns, illness, Jane Eyre, Joan Didion, Lindsey Crittenden, Little House books, Little Women, Mary Ingalls, Mary Lennox, migraine, mumps, sick day, strep throat, The Secret Garden | 6 Comments

The Moral of Pierre

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Most people think of Where the Wild Things Are, appropriately enough. But this week, hearing on the radio that Maurice Sendak had died at the age of 83, I thought first of Pierre, the petulant child of the eponymous “cautionary … Continue reading →

Posted in reading, spirituality | Tagged Alligators All Around, Aristotle, cautionary tales, Chicken Soup with Rice, children's books, conflict, crisis, Lindsey Crittenden, Maurice Sendak, moral tales, narrative, narrative reversal, Nutshell Library, One Was Johnny, Pierre, resolution, Where the Wild Things Are | 7 Comments

No Trees Felled, But a Terrific Evening

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

If you read this blog last week, you know that my story “The Art of Fiction” was read last Friday at Stories on Stage in Sacramento. What a wonderful evening–and I’m not saying that just because my story was featured. … Continue reading →

Posted in community, reading, writing | Tagged " 100-word stories, " Stories on Stnage, "Big Dog, acramento Poetry Center, Benjamin Ismail, Farallon Review, graduate creative writring program, Julia Halprin Jackson, Lindsey Crittenden, literary magazines, Pam Metzger, postcards, Sacramento, short shorts, The Art of FIction, The View from Below, The Water Will Hold You, Tim Foley, UC Davis, UC Davis program in creative wriring, Valerie Fioravanti | 4 Comments

April Is National Poetry Month

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

My friend and writing colleague Ilana de Bare has posted a terrific piece on her blog, Midlife Bat Mitzvah, about Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday. Like, I suspect, a lot of women, I heard about Rich before I ever … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, prayer, reading, spirituality, writing | Tagged Adrienne RIch, brother's death, eulogies, grief, heaven, Ilana de Bare, jays, lament, Lindsey Crittenden, Midlife Bat Mtizvah, mourning, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, poets of desire, prayer, precision, prophecy, sympathy cards, The Next Story, The Water Will Hold You, W.H. Auden | 2 Comments

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