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Authorial Intrusion: Fear of Success
Have you ever daydreamed of writing a series that has touched as many people as Harry Potter? Or writing a memoir as successful as Eat, Pray, Love? I close my eyes and think about how wonderful that would be. For a moment I smile, and then something weird happens.
Authorial Intrusion: Giving and Receiving (Part 2)
Giving and receiving feedback: Five guidelines to help make sure you have a productive workshop experience.
Authorial Intrusion: Attending a Writing Workshop (Part 1)
Here are five tips if you’re considering attending a creative writing workshop.
Tourist in My Town: Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a waterfront park that hugs the East River for about 1.5 miles. For decades it was absolutely derelict.
Great New Books
I think the vast majority of books I've read in the past few years have come to my attention through personal recommendations. I rely on their honest opinions to help me select my next read. There are too many great new books to waste time reading bad books. One site...
Authorial Intrusion: Self-Doubt
Today I want to talk about a different kind of authorial intrusion—one where self-doubt creeps into the author’s mind a plays on a loop like a roller coaster you can’t get off.
Why We Read: To Travel
My absolute favorite books–fiction or nonfiction–are ones that transport me to another place. Or another time and place. James Herriot’s Yorkshire. Ignatius J. Reilly’s New Orleans. Twain’s Mississippi.
Tourist in My Town: Conservatory Gardens
Last week I hoofed it up to 105th Street to take in one of the loveliest gardens in Manhattan that’s not hidden behind a locked gate.
Nature Calls: Crows
I hope to give you a new way to think about crows. Let’s start with one of the coolest discoveries: they make and use tools. Enter Betty, the New Caledonian crow.
Authorial Intrusion: Cherrypicking
What happens when a highly respected author and Wharton professor takes your words out of context to suit his point?
I’m Reading
