CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF A NOVELWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR”The first novel by a writer born in America was The Life of Harriet Stuart by Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, published in two volumes in London 1751….This novel, her first, was a semiautobiographical romance. Samuel Johnson, an eminent English writer, was a personal friend of hers andContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING
** “Reading was such a wonderful thing that to have made a life around the experience was almost criminal and it was so fortunate.” Elizabeth Hardwick ** THE CREATOR OF THE WIZARD OF OZ PREDICTEDTHE INVENTION OF THE CELL PHONE Baum wrote dozens of other novels and short stories, and he had a knackContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
THE MOST URGENT QUESTION FOR A WRITER The most urgent question for a writer may seem to be, What experiences do I have as my material, what experiences do I feel able tonarrate? But that’s not right. The most pressing question is, What is the word, what is the rhythm of the sentence, what toneContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
“I didn’t know you could do this! I didn’t know you could write this way! It was so open. So close to the bone. So convesational . The Catcher in the Rye showed me you could write to someone you’d never met as if you were talking to someone you’d always known.”Elizabeth Berg in TheContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
“It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the godswish to destroy, they first give an opinion column.” Parul Sehgal. The New Yorker (October 21, 2024)** STORY TELLING & SELF KNOWLEDGE I believe most of us tell a story about our lives and then come to live within that story. You can’t know whoContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
ADVICE ON BECOMING A WRITER”Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expectedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6
ADVERTISING IN LATE NINETEENTH & EARLY 20th CENTURY AMERICA”There was a certain amount of petty fraud often of a good-humored kind, in the advertising of the day. For instance,persons sending money for an advertised ‘Potato Bug Eradicator’ received two slivers of wood with the instructions ‘Place the potato bug between the two sticks of woodContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: AMERICANA #6”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING
“Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expected to like good fictionContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING”
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