The lean beginning
Carrie of Tingle Alley, having taken Stanley Fish’s advice to heart, plans the opening of her murder mystery: Knock knock.
Carrie of Tingle Alley, having taken Stanley Fish’s advice to heart, plans the opening of her murder mystery: Knock knock.
When The Dud Avocado is reissued in June, I’ll be posting Terry Teachout’s marvelous new introduction.
Writer Chris Abani was asked to leave seminary at 17 “over matters of dogma,” but remains interested in religion, “the attempt to give faith a voice.”
Reading Hermione Lee’s biography of Edith Wharton, I’ve been fascinated by the descriptions of Wharton’s writing process, which was by turns scattershot and obsessive. She started and abandoned projects willy-nilly, but when she focused on something, she rewrote sentences over and over again. Wharton’s own writing life was, after 1899, so high-voltage, so prolific and efficient, that it is startling . . .
Bad news: Technical difficulties prevented me from recording Friday night’s Calvin Baker/Colson Whitehead discussion on Branding and Freedom in the Market Economy. It’s a shame, too, because the authors spoke so intelligently, and with such warmth — they’re friends, as it happens — that we didn’t lose a single audience member over the course of the evening. I’ve tried to . . .