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Writing With Five Senses
Lecture delivered at the Vermont College of Fine Arts on July 1, 2019 As an artist, like everyone else on this planet, you encounter the world out there primarily in your bodies, moment to moment through your senses. Everything else … Continue reading
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On Memory and Fiction
In part four of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, aging author Briony Tallis is revealed to be the author of the novel that comprises the previous three sections of the book. She is dying of vascular dementia, and that this, her last … Continue reading
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Lessons from John Gardner
Last week when I was at the Baltimore Book Festival browsing through the titles at Daedelus Books’ tent, I came across new copy of an old favorite book about writing, John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for … Continue reading
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