Month: June 2005

June 30, 2005

>Creative-writing Gulag?

>The current Harper’s Magazine (July 2005) includes an essay by Lynn Freed, called “Doing Time: My years in the creative-writing gulag.” (The same issue…
June 28, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d: Part II-5)

>5.Onto the brimming surface the pearblossom drifts downA hazel nut drops with a plump activating the green slime. With a last thrust the mallard…
June 25, 2005

>Raise your hand . . .

>. . . if you saw the piece in The New Yorker about Patrick Henry College and you’re as frightened of these zombies as…
June 25, 2005

>Waiting for Cormac

>The current issue of Virginia Quarterly Review includes an excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s new book, No Country for Old Men, due to be released…
June 22, 2005

>On ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’

>There’s a terrific article in the June 9 issue of the New York Review of Books by Michael Chabon: On ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’….
June 17, 2005

>Sun setting on Tinker Mountain

>The week is just about over. In addition to the stellar workshop with Pinckney Benedict, in the last two days we’ve had the pleasure…
June 14, 2005

>Greetings from Tinker Mountain

>I am attending the Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop at Hollins University (just outside Roanoke, VA) this week. I’m in a workshop with Pinckney Benedict,…
June 13, 2005

>Stymied in China

>I’ve been long absent because–in part at least–I went to China. I had planned to take advantage of the high-speed connection from my room…
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