Just two brief things to relay, courtesy of novelist Mary Gaitskill, on the writing life. I sat down with her not long ago (she’s a visiting professor this semester at Claremont McKenna College) and I’ve just now returned to my notes to see what she said. No surprise: She definitely didn’t disappoint. The two comments … Continue reading The Writing Life: Something from Mary
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Cutting Advice from Patricia Highsmith
Not long ago, a former colleague of mine turned up her nose when I mentioned that I was enthralled in the middle of George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" saga. That really irritated me. Martin pulls off some very intricate, psychologically deep scenes, but all this snotty person could think of were the … Continue reading Cutting Advice from Patricia Highsmith
What is it about the letter M? Three writers’ passings
The literary world has taken a very big hit over the past few weeks. It lost three Ms -- Peter Mathiessen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and now Alistair MacLeod. It isn't that the writing world expected more from them. Mathiessen and Marquez were both sick and well past their writing primes. MacLeod,who hailed from Canada, brewed … Continue reading What is it about the letter M? Three writers’ passings
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