The Art of Reading James Baldwin
Following James Baldwin's example: writing honestly and from experience.
Department: The Literary Life
Mid-List Crisis
Lott muses on his success and failure; realizes that writing is its own reward.
Writing Through Rejection: 12 Step Advice for Serial Quitters
In the face of rejection, ambition, pride, and humility are worthless; passion and belief are the steam that can help a writer keep going.
Poet as Private Eye: Confidential Research
A former private detective finds similar work in the making of poems.
The Lingerie Theory of Narration: Victoria's Secret Revealed
Strategies for slowly uncovering story.
Imperative: The Creative Nonfiction Crisis
A writing teacher questions the truth behind creative nonfiction.
A Short History of Everything: The End Is Nothing, The Road Is All
A fiction writer recounts his novel's journey to success.
The Art of Reading Cormac McCarthy: The Darkness and the Light
Cormac McCarthy has published ten novels during his forty-two-year career, combining elements of Southern gothic, American western, and Celtic lyric traditions. His most recent work, The Road, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Imperative: The Pressure to Be Exotic
Let me be the last—the absolute dead last—to point out that we're in the midst of a memoir craze. My favorite form of procrastination used to be computer solitaire, but now I prefer to chat on the phone with my writing friends and discuss the ongoing boom in autobiographical literature. We speculate like housing developers prognosticating on the real estate market. Will the bubble pop? Will prices continue to rise? Will market trends ever again veer toward literary fiction?
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The Art of Reading Philip Roth: Turning Sentences Around
A literary look at the career of prolific author Philip Roth, our Great American Novelist.
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