Along with the new blog look, you’ll find a revitalized, now to be regularly updated, Sad Red Reading feature over at the right of the page, not that far from the top. There I link to some favored writings reflecting the varied interests of the blog: literary, political, more widely cultural and philosophical. Right now […]
Writers Write
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, above all, to make you see. That – and no more, and it is everything.” Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) * * * […]
The Five Most Misconceived Criteria for Determining the Fifteen Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers
Yes, that may be the longest title I have ever placed above a piece of my writing, but only the first six of the words are mine. The remainder is appropriated from Anis Shivani’s post the other day at Huffington Post. It’s gotten a lot of reaction, elsewhere, and, as I write, over 1650 comments […]
Writers Write
“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.” Gore Vidal, Réalités, August 1966 —– “Writing doe not exclude the full life. It demands it.” Katherine Anne Porter, from On Writing the Short Story, by Hallie Burnett —– “Literature must […]
Writers Write
“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.” Carson McCullers, The Square Root of Wonderful, 1958 ——— Related articles by Zemanta Rattlestick unveils slate (variety.com) Book Review: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers (blogcritics.org) The Girl Who Was JT LeRoy […]