Literature
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The Writing Window
by Adam Leipzig
I have writer friends who tell me they only get real writing done when they go on writing retreats, and hole up for a month at a time. There’s something about the change of scene and place that makes work better, they say, or at least flow more easily.
We came up to Mendocino because Lori was taking a class at the Art Center here, and I t More...
Barbarians in the Ivory Tower: American Writing Lives
by Ulli K. Ryder
Joseph Epstein’s recent essay “What Killed American Lit.” in the Wall Street Journal purports to be a review of The Cambridge History of American Literature, but Epstein turns it into his soapbox and begins with a false premise – that American literature is dead and no one wants to read it anymore. I am a former English major and curr More...
Vows
by Jack Grapes
We're going to get married and have kids and live together and be bloody Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the country. More...Writing ESL
by William Zinsser | The American Scholar
A talk to the incoming international students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, August 11, 2009
Five years ago one of your deans at the journalism school, Elizabeth Fishman, asked me if I would be interested in tutoring international students who might need some extra help with their writing. She knew I had done a lot of trav More...
The Book Isn’t Dead, But That May Be a Problem
by Adam Leipzig
Never chop down a tree in the forest before you know what it will sound like when it falls.
Millions of people, however, are clear-cutting forests with only this sound: Pages turning, no one reading.
It seems that everyone is writing books these days, and publishing them too. That may come as a great surprise if you, like so m More...
