Up from Alabama for 20 days with a $500 bill
“The day moved then into its splendid parts”: Toni Morrison, on cooking out, circa 1973.
“The day moved then into its splendid parts”: Toni Morrison, on cooking out, circa 1973.
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 . . .
The relaunched Poets & Writers site includes searchable databases of literary magazines, jobs, and grants & awards.