Archive for April, 2011
I just came across a guest post called “Do Editors Edit Anymore?” by Caroline Tolley on the blog Writer Unboxed. Her piece is a superb analysis of the state of editing today, and it has prompted me to post one of my own that I’ve been meaning to write for some time. (Read Caroline’s post [...]
It is a truism that everyone can be a writer. Indeed, this optimistic notion seems to explain why bookstores and the Internet are lousy with mediocre media gurus and authors dispensing hackneyed literary wisdom in thousands of books and Web sites on “How to Be a Great Writer.” But is the truism really true? Certainly [...]
I’m considering making my short stories “Kansas” and “Pilotman” available as free downloads on Kindle in the next couple of months. Today, the beautiful and talented Misou Ho kindly mocked up several “Kansas” covers for me. So far, we’ve narrowed it down to a few variations on a theme (see below). A brief synopsis of [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve come across several articles about New Yorker short story writer Mavis Gallant, including the New York Review Books Classics Web page on Paris Stories and a piece on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Granta interview from 2009 (the link includes a rare video of Gallant reading from her work). These naturally [...]
