Wylie Rumors, Best Books of 2012, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Scholars may soon have full access to the T. S. Eliot's personal papers and correspondence; Greg Olear examines his writing success at forty; rumors of a possible merger or sale of...
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To mark the holiday this week, make a list of things you're grateful for. Beneath each item, free-associate a list of objects. Pick ten from your lists of objects and use them to write a poem.
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We all know how the Fitzgeralds' story ended—with Scott drinking and Zelda in the sanitarium—so it's nice to seem them during happier times, in the 1920s.Video URL:...
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Poet, fiction writer, and editor of the literary magazine Cactus Heart, Sara Rauch talks about drawing inspiration from simple things and capturing the beauty of everyday life in writing.Video URL:...
View ArticleWylie Rumors, Best Books of 2012, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Scholars may soon have full access to the T. S. Eliot's personal papers and correspondence; Greg Olear examines his writing success at forty; rumors of a possible merger or sale of...
View ArticleMore Chris Ware
The cartoonist and author of the graphic novel Building Stories speaks with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW's Bookworm.Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxsMhhHRtJE
View ArticlePoem of Gratitude
To mark the holiday this week, make a list of things you're grateful for. Beneath each item, free-associate a list of objects. Pick ten from your lists of objects and use them to write a poem.
View ArticleTolkien Lawsuit, Unfilmable Books, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The estate of J. R. R. Tolkien has filed an eighty million dollar lawsuit against Warner; NPR looks at difficulties of making "unfilmable" books into good movies; Jason Diamond...
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"World, there are two baskets / on my back. / Fill them." Visual artist Angella Kassube re-envisions poet Bridget Lowe’s "The Pilgrim Is Bridled and Bespectacled" in this offering from Motionpems....
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Deborah Copaken Kogan
“When it comes to inspiration, I’m an omnivore, an art whore: I’ll take it wherever I can get it. I come from a previous incarnation as a visual artist, so I see writing not as some sort of alchemy...
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Evan Smith Rakoff Dissident poet Li Bifeng was sentenced to twelve years in prison in China; News Corp, which owns HarperCollins, is in early discussions with CBS about acquiring Simon & Schuster;...
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Write a scene for a story that takes place at the Thanksgiving day table during dinner or in the kitchen during preparations for the meal with two characters who are are angry at each other but not...
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Write an essay about your memories of Thanksgivings past, how your family celebrated the holiday and what it means to you now and why.
View ArticleSara Rauch
Poet, fiction writer, and editor of the literary magazine Cactus Heart, Sara Rauch talks about drawing inspiration from simple things and capturing the beauty of everyday life in writing.Video URL:...
View ArticleWylie Rumors, Best Books of 2012, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Scholars may soon have full access to the T. S. Eliot's personal papers and correspondence; Greg Olear examines his writing success at forty; rumors of a possible merger or sale of...
View ArticleMore Chris Ware
The cartoonist and author of the graphic novel Building Stories speaks with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW's Bookworm.Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxsMhhHRtJE
View ArticlePoem of Gratitude
To mark the holiday this week, make a list of things you're grateful for. Beneath each item, free-associate a list of objects. Pick ten from your lists of objects and use them to write a poem.
View ArticleTolkien Lawsuit, Unfilmable Books, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff The estate of J. R. R. Tolkien has filed an eighty million dollar lawsuit against Warner; NPR looks at difficulties of making "unfilmable" books into good movies; Jason Diamond...
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