What happened on the eighth day of creation after God's long day of rest on the seventh? According to poet Geoffrey Hartman, God remembered all those things he forgot to make during the first week: On the eighth day God saw what he had not created. And it was good. And he blessed it saying: … Continue reading ‘I contracted myself to words’: Geoffrey Hartman’s luminous poetry
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‘You have to want the story’: A.R. Williams on writing (pt. 2)
In part one of my interview with A.R. Williams here at Call of the Siren, she discussed the background of her splendid dystopian novel "The Camellia Resistance." But something else happened in the process. She provided two interviews: one about her novel and one about the craft of writing. As all of you consider your own … Continue reading ‘You have to want the story’: A.R. Williams on writing (pt. 2)
If critics don’t understand it, why did Catton’s book win a major prize?
This fall, Eleanor Catton released a big beast of a novel, The Luminaries, and picked up the highest honor in literature, the Man Booker Prize (more important than the Pulitzer or the Nobel, in my humble opinion). At the time of the prize announcement, I was spending a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms … Continue reading If critics don’t understand it, why did Catton’s book win a major prize?
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