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Recent Posts:
- Author’s Note: All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
- A Creative Manifesto
- The Ides of March: The Most Dangerous Time for New Year’s Resolutions
- Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
- On Failing Better, Failing Bigger, Failing Magnificently
- Inspiration is a rare sighting (like Bigfoot)
- The Art of the Mini Writing Retreat
- The Key to Whole-Hearted Writing: Embrace Vulnerability
- On the Publication of Fissures
- An Author Reads in Public
- For the Love of a Good Cover Design
- On Goal Setting: Lapsing and Not Lapsing and Monthly Resolutions
- Boredom: the Secret Passageway to Creativity
- On Hallowed Ground at Granddaddy Faulkner’s House
- The Author as Hero
- The Power of Getting More Ideas Faster
- Paul Bowles by His Friends
- Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Absence as Presence
- Resilience More Important Than Any Writing Tip
- Dancing the Tango. Writing the Novel.
- The Art of Stealing: Creativity Redefined
- Serialization as Writing Process
- Puerto del Sol: ‘Blue Highways’
- On Revision
- On Creative Momentum
- The Never Ending Journey of One’s Writing Process
- First Self-Publishing Project: The Names of All Things
- Stretch Goals. Telling, Not Showing. Lit Crawl 2013. Trepidation.
- Thinking About My Daily Writing Rituals
- Viking Helmets and Writing
- A Day with Jim Carroll: Love Poem as Fix, Grace, Reconciliation
- Francesca Woodman: Model Upside Down on the Stairs
- John Cage: The Excitements of Boredom
- The Ways Poetry Can Improve Your Prose
- Tebowing: A Found Poem
- A View Askew: Hotel Amerika
- Writing Residencies: A Chance to Write in One’s Best Hours
- On David Milch: Writing with an Oceanic Sense
- Writing in Fragments
- Dean Young: Failing Better
- Revision Tip No. 2,043: The Art of Dancing to Guy Lombardo while Drumming to Mingus
- The 1,394 Word Sentence (Which Is a Story)
- The Things I Like About 100 Word Story
- The Short, Short Story: 100 Word Story Magazine
- Hotel Amerika’s Take on Great American Literature
- Laura Albert and JT LeRoy: Mask as Muse
- J.M.G. Le Clezio: Loss in the Foreign Lands of Ourselves
- Finding Oneself in Flight. Or Not.
- Script Frenzy and Me
- Reality Hunger: A Manifesto that Invites Manifestos
- The Notion of a Reader: Poet Jack Spicer
- To Write or Not to Write. To Be or Not to Be.
- Tamping Down a New Path: PANK Magazine
- Kierkegaard: A Believer’s Disdain
- FRiGG Magazine: Friggin’ Good Reading
- Riding the Monkeybicycle: The Art of Literary Miscellany
- Reading as Pausing: James Salter
- 2011 Reading Resolutions: I Aspire
- Reading Camus: Falling into a Life of Contradictions
- Hallucinatory Effects: Jim Carroll and the Art of Purity
- The Used Furniture Review
- C.P. Cavafy and His Histories of Desire
- Literary Magazines on the Make?
- Invisible City Audio Tour: A Surreal Oakland Adventure
- Emperor Franzen and the Jonathan Franzen Publicity Machine
- Writerliness Gone Mad, the Fetishization of Detail
- Paul Strohm and the Art of the 100 Word Story
- Writing Tip No. 647: Never Try to Please the Boss
- Writing tips. And more writing tips…
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- Literary Drunks and Addicts and Scourges
- The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzhaler
- The Eternal Life of Holden Caulfield
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- The death of fiction…one more time
- How Not to Write about Sex
- The Naked and the Conflicted by Katie Roiphe
- Elmore Leornard’s writing tips
- Reading Resolutions
- Ian McEwan and the Art of Suspense
- How to Write? The Definition of an Author
- King Dork vs. Catcher in the Rye
- Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
- The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse: Adolescent Reading, Adult Reading
- Lionel Trilling: Fiction and Politics
- Lit Folks, Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
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- The Concept of Plot
- Literary Genius: The Ugliness of It All
- Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop: A Love Affair of Letters
- American Fiction: The Suicide of Detail
- Emily Dickinson: Truth at a Slant
- The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
- Persepolis: The Value of a Child’s Point of View
- The Last of the Big Beards: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Writing–Or Not Writing–About Work
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- Henry Green: Loving