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Vacation Reading

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

Read anything good on vacation? We haven’t even decided where we’re going this year—Grand Tetons? Hawaii? Yosemite? Stinson Beach?—and already I’m answering the question. You see, as soon as I start thinking about where, I start considering what books to … Continue reading →

Posted in reading | Tagged Adam Gopnik, Big Island, Danielle Steel, Donna Leon, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, Hawaii, Homer, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lake Tahoe, Lindsey Crittenden, Marilyn French, Maui, mystery novels, New Yorker, novels, Odyssey, Rome, Ruth Rendell, Sea Ranch, Stinson Beach, The Exorcist, The Professor and the Madman, The Women's Room, vacation, vacation reading, VRBO, Yosemite | 4 Comments

Tryouts

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

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 | 4 Comments

Mystery Surprise

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Lindsey Crittenden

I’ve never much liked mystery novels. I get either helplessly confused by the third chapter (Smiley’s People) or impatient that no one else figured out early on that of course the wife did it (Presumed Innocent). In fourth and fifth … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, reading | Tagged Barbara Vine, Crown Publishing Group, Death and Judgement, Donna Leon, Duplicate Keys, Guido Brunetti, Henry James, henry james turn of the screw, Jane Smiley, key to rebecca, keys to the street, Lindsey Crittenden, mysteries, mystery novels, mystery writers, Nancy Drew, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick McGrath, plot, precise characterizations, Presumed Innocent, Ruth Rendell, Smiley's People, Spider, The Crocodile Bird, The Key to Rebecca, The Keys to the Street, the Romanovs, The Russia House, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Turn of the Screw, The Water's Lovely, unreliable narrator, Venice, Winston Churchill | 2 Comments

Read Anything Good Lately?

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

I own many books. I have piles of magazines going back I don’t want to say how many months. Reading material covers every surface in every room I live in. I belong to the Mechanics’ Institute, whose wonderful library has … Continue reading →

Posted in craft, reading, writing, writing groups | Tagged 20 u nder 40, Alice Munro, Amagansett, backstory, Billy Prior, Caribou Island, character development, David Vann, favorite authors, fiction, Jane Eyre, Jonathan Coe, Lindsey Crittenden, literary analysis, literary fiction, Lloyd Jones, Lonesome Dove, Mary Tyler Moore, Mechanics' Institute, Michiko Kakutani, Mr Pip, narrative structure, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pat Barker, Penn Station, reading fiction, Rebecca, Regeneration trilogy, Seasons in the Sun, The Great Gatsby, The Rain Before It Falls, The Scarlet Letter | 1 Comment

Voices in Our Heads

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Lindsey Crittenden

This week’s post follows up on last week’s discussion of Jane Anne Staw’s talk on the five components of a writing practice, given at the Fiction Writing Intensive this past July at UC Berkeley Extension. Last week, I wrote about … Continue reading →

Posted in reading, teaching, writing | Tagged Anne Lamott, Art of Fiction, Bird by Bird, books on writing, Borrowers, Fiction Writing Intensive, internal critic, Jane Anne Staw, John Gardner, Lindsey Crittenden, UC Berkeley Extension, uninvited guests, writer's block, writing process | Comments Off

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