Aesthetically Speaking: The Emergence and Survival of Callaloo
The history of Callaloo and a conversation with founding editor Charles Henry Rowell.
Department: The Literary Life
Fiction 21c: Is Domestic Versus Epic a Fair Fight?
An update on the argument about domestic versus epic novels.
Stuff: The Power of the Tangible
How to minimize abstractions and use concrete nouns in your writing.
Paths and Pearls: A Poet Ponders Memoir and Lyric
The capabilities of memoir versus poetry.
The Norton Anthology of Greeting Cards
Greeting card literature that some poets might have made (if they were alive and willing).
What Writers Are Reading: After the Attack
The books that bolstered writers after the September 11 attacks.
21st-Century Pleasures: The Rewards of Recitation
The joy of memorizing and reciting poetry.
Tone Deaf: Learning to Listen to the Music in Prose
The rewards of reading aloud and finding poetry in prose.
Fiction 21c: The Novel in Stories
The twenty-first-century novel as a narrative of linked stories.
The Expatriate Writer in Paris: Revising the Myth
American expat in Paris separates fiction from fact.
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