May 2012
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“Martha Gellhorn’s pen pals included Eleanor Roosevelt, Maxwell Perkins, H.G....”
– A Goofy State of Mind: My Grandmother’s Letters from Martha Gellhorn by Amy Shearn
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A New Kind of Book Arts Program and a Call for... →
Check this out, it sounds like a good cause. From one of our readers: “My former book arts/calligraphy teacher is trying to start a new book arts education program in Boston, and has subsequently applied for a grant. She needs to attain 250 votes in order to be considered. … You can also learn more by Googling The Abbey Studio blog.”
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“Writing is a miraculous technology all its own—a code that, when input through...”
– If you’re looking for a weekend #longread, Robert Moor has an interesting article in n+1 on the history of digital and hypertextual literature.
Plus, the article begins with a nice summary of The Late American Novel, a collection of writing on the future of the book edited by our own founding...
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“Enjoying a good work of literature entails getting lost. Vast and foreign is the...”
– Bryan Basamanowicz, “From the Library of Your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature.”
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“In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do—if he has to...”
– -Malcolm Cowley in response to a letter asking whether one should pursue an MFA.
In the comments section, novelist Helen DeWitt serves a searing retort:
“if he has to write, why then he writes…” This is roughly what my penultimate agent, Bill Clegg, had to say on the subject. This is not so much...
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“I always felt that the songs — my favorite songs are usually stories. A lot of...”
– Josh Ritter, musician-cum-novelist, discusses the differences between songwriting and novel writing in an interview with Robert Birnbaum. Ritter’s novel, Bright’s Passage, is out in paperback today. 