Month: August 2005

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> Bread Loaf was a wonderful experience. Despite the mice in the cabin. And my stubbed toe. The mountain campus is beautiful and I…

>No lecture on the last day, but my workshop met. Nothing unusual there except that the Fellow assigned to our workshop didn’t show up….

>It definitely feels close to the end. The lecture on Friday morning was by San Samantha Chang (the new director of the Iowa Writers…

>Nearing the end. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing, because this is such an exhausting but wonderful experience. On Thursday, the…

>First up on Wednesday was Lynn Freed’s lecture: On False Starts & Creative Failure: How Not to Begin a Novel When You Don’t Have…

>A long one. First up was a lecture by Tom Sleigh on “Some Measure of Insanity: Poetic Language, Versions of the Self, and the…

>Monday was a day of rest, sort of. I participated in the Writers Cramp, a nearly 3-mile run around campus and up to the…

>We started Sunday with a fantastic lecture by James Wood on “How to Narrate”. Looking closely at several texts, including Jane Austen and Henry…

>Saturday was our fourth day. We began, as on other days, with a lecture. This time it was Patricia Hampl’s turn and she talked…