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Tag Archives: narrative
Writing Under the Influence
I’ve blogged about Jane before, and I’m doing it again. Jane Eyre, that is. I’ve been thinking about her because I’ve just finished The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey’s take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. (Livesey herself calls it … Continue reading
Posted in craft, reading, writing
Tagged " Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever, Angela Carter, Bloody Chamber, Bluebeard, Charlotte Bronte, Chekhov, Gogol, Jane Eyre, Joyce Carol Oates, Lady with a Pet Dog, Lindsey Crittenden, madwoman in the attic, Margot Livesey, Mrs. Ansley, Mrs. Slade, narrative, plot, Red Riding Hood, Soviet Russia, story ideas, T. C. Boyle, The FLight of Gemma Hardy, The Overcoat
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In Another Life
My next post will appear Friday, September 7. If you’re in the neighborhood, mark your calendar for Sept. 13, 7 p.m.: Why There Are Words, 333 Caledonia, Sausalito. I’d love to see some of you there! A few months ago, … Continue reading
Posted in craft, reading, writing
Tagged anti-memoir, archeology, Cairo, fiction, getting it right, Helen of Troy, Homer, imagination, Lindsey Crittenden, Making It Up, memoir, narrative, narrative manipulation, novels, Odysseus, Odyssey, Penelope, Penelope Lively, story-making, The Photograph, Ulysses, Why There Are Words, writing fiction
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The Moral of Pierre
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
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Airing the Laundry
I will be taking off the next three weeks. My next post will appear Friday, October 21. I’ve never worried about offending anyone while writing. Maybe it’s all those years of uncensored diary entries about mad crushes and revenge fantasies … Continue reading
