Month: August 2006

>The current issue of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has an article by Ann Patchett (author of Bel Canto)…

>This news is a little old–it was released on August 14, just as I was about to leave for Bread Loaf–but still I like…

>It took me 10.5 hours to drive home from Bread Loaf on Sunday. It might have been a shorter trip, but there was heavy…

>The last day: a light one, as people begin to leave. We had our last workshop session in the morning, going over two pieces….

>Friday began with Mark Doty’s lecture, “Whitman in Tears.” Ted Genoways from Virginia Quarterly Review was visiting and Mark began by noting that he…

>A non-linear day. First up was a lecture: “A Literary Collage on Literary Collage” by David Shields, in which he argued–more or less–that the…

>I want to see a moose. I still haven’t, but Jim, one of the other writers living in the same cabin I’m in, saw…

>Tuesday began with a lecture by poet Linda Gregerson called “The Social Life of Poems.” I’ll tell you more about that when have time…

>Ostensibly a rest day, there was no lecture in the morning. Some participants ran in the “Writer’s Cramp Race”–a 2.8 mile run down to…

>Sunday’s activities began with a Lecture by Josip Novakovich called “Writing in English as a Second Language” which mostly consisted of him reading a…