The Last Record Store
by Corey Mesler
You walk into the last record store on Earth. It was quite a trek to get there. The clerk has complicated hair and a tattoo… Read More »The Last Record Store
by Corey Mesler
Ray Bradbury at Home
I just came across this odd and wonderful little collection of video clips, taken at Ray Bradbury’s home in LA in 2001, by the folks… Read More »Ray Bradbury at Home
David Mamet on Hollywood
Mamet was interviewed in Time Out New York by Joshua Rothkopf. The subject: Mamet’s new book about film, Bambi vs. Godzilla. Hollywood is capitalism at… Read More »David Mamet on Hollywood
the feel of the pen
Empires fall, votes are accorded, but to those people writing in the circular room it is the feel of the pen between their fingers that… Read More »the feel of the pen
Write Well. Imagine Deeply.
Today, in the graduate fiction workshop I teach, we’re discussing a story written by a young white woman who grew up somewhere in the middle… Read More »Write Well. Imagine Deeply.
Claire Messud on ambition
Here’s a good interview with Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children, on the Kenyon Review blog. So is ambition ever justified? There’s always something… Read More »Claire Messud on ambition
John Gardner on detail
“In addition to watching the rhythm of his scene–the tempo or pace–the writer pays close attention, in constructing the scene, to the relationship, in each… Read More »John Gardner on detail
good advice from Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme’s The 39 Steps: A Primer on Story Writing, begins: Step one in the great enterprise of a new and preferable you in the… Read More »good advice from Frederick Barthelme
economy
Here is one of the most economical sentence pairings I’ve come across in a while: He couldn’t remember his wife clearly–only the hats she wore.… Read More »economy
Romney Schell, At the Disco (1979)
I found myself wandering around Midtown, nearly 3:00am on a Tuesday night, finally single, finally alone. The town that never sleeps was asleep, and the… Read More »Romney Schell, At the Disco (1979)