The life and inspiration of Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende once took a potent hallucinogen to overcome writer’s block.
Isabel Allende once took a potent hallucinogen to overcome writer’s block.
American creative writing instruction, in my experience, tends to discourage would-be novelists from working with philosophical concepts. Large, abstract ideas are seen as the province of scientists and Nobel laureates. Everyone else, the thinking goes, should stay squarely in the realm of concrete troubles like adultery or thievery or murder. But don’t the best novels — Crime and Punishment, for . . .
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Seltzer’s I lived it, man claims are so offensive because they rely on pasteboard African-American characters. (See also.)