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Emmylou: Beautiful collaborator (and object lesson)
Came upon this nice NYT interview with the lovely (in every sense of the word) Emmylou Harris this morning. Love her closing lines: “You asked me if I have any regrets? I regret that it took me all...
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Philip Roth on napping, and writing, and…
Great, light little NPR piece loaded with good Roth-quotes. Looking forward to the PBS documentary on him coming up. Here he is on napping, which I intend to get better at: “Let me tell you about the...
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Life in Storyville
This is one of those weeks when I’m struck by how odd (and cool) my working life has become. Though maybe it’s not all that odd. I think everyone lives in a web—a web within a web within a web—of...
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In Defense of Copyright
Some worrisome developments and cogent arguments from Scott Turow in an April 7, 2013, New York Times op-ed. A couple of bits (which I can only hope aren’t in themselves lengthy enough to qualify as...
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A snapshot of the publishing landscape…at least at this second
Kudos to this blogger for placing into pleasing, coherent graphical form at least most of the moment’s available pathways to publication. A blizzard of options.
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On perseverance, and perspective — writing advice from Neil Gaiman
Some of Neil Gaiman’s greatest hits, including my favorite: When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive....
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How I (sloooowly) roll
Went to Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer ”On the Lam” writer’s conference this weekend–a really great event. So fun to put faces/voices to names! I’d ramble on in depth about it all–lots of...
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Neil Gaiman has a message for us
Seriously. Nailing that middle one will take care of the others. What say we do it?
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Copy that: Nicholson Baker on the power of mindful copying
Here’s a pretty powerful plug from the wonderful Nicholson Baker for making a habit of copying down (by hand, word for word) writing that moves you. Something that also taught me how to write that I...
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