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You Should Read Casey Plett’s On Community
I’m lucky enough to be acquainted with writer Casey Plett, from the days when I was covering the literary world and she was a publicist for the indie Canadian press Biblioasis, which happens to be the publisher of her recent long personal essay, On Community. So I was delighted…
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Overwhelming Fear with Acceptance
Recently, someone steered me toward a GQ profile of golf coach George Gankas: Gankas’s great flaw as a player, in retrospect, was fear. Now he teaches his students to overwhelm fear with acceptance. Stay present, he says. When you’re out on the golf course, don’t get too sunk…
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I Have a Great Many Thoughts About At Love’s Command
When the Romance Writers of America presented an award for “Best Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements†to Karen Witemeyer for her novel At Love’s Command, several of the genre’s fans (including a number of writers) were extremely pissed at this decision, arguing…
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“Art Is My Own Best Chance for Redemption”
In my thirties, I started listening seriously to modern classical music, to the point that I was able to distinguish between John Adams and John Luther Adams—and it’s the latter composer I’ll be talking about now, as I’ve recently had occasion to read his memoir,…
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Everything You Write Is the Most Important Thing You Write
As the publication date for Our Endless and Proper Work draws near, I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from the actor Mads Mikkelsen: “My approach to what I do in my job—and it might even be the approach to my life—is that everything I do is the most important…
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You Are Capable of Telling Better Stories
I should confess at the onset: I’ve swiped the title of today’s newsletter from GB “Doc†Burford and his excellent essay, “You Are Capable of Writing Better Horror Stories.†And though I’m going to tell you a little bit about it here, I strongly encourage you to go…
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Life Stories #107: Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods' 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism is a book that, as our British friends say, does exactly what it says on the tin—chronicling 100 separate incidents of sexist behavior that Woods has faced in her lifetime, a pattern of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse…
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Life Stories #106: Rick Moody
In The Long Accomplishment, Rick Moody takes readers through the first year of his second marriage. It was a moment in time where he'd gained significant control over his addictions, and had extricated from a dysfunctional first marriage—a moment when, as I jokingly said…
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Carolyn Burke: Rebecca & Paul & Georgia & Alfred
photo: Paul Schraub I first met Carolyn Burke in 1995, when we discussed her biography of the early 20th-century artist Mina Loy. A decade later, Burke and Hazel Rowley shared some of their correspondence about literary biography with me. I’m delighted to introduce you to her…
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Chris Power: Discovering the Short Story
photo: Claudia Burlotti A flailing standup comedian keeps his career alive by doing Rodney Dangerfield’s act, but you can just imagine how that makes him feel. A woman recalls growing up in an apartment complex in the 1970s, and the lie she told about one of her neighbors. A…