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>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…

>Friday was a little warmer than the previous days. I started with a quiet walk in the woods, then headed down to breakfast and…

>Thursday was the first full day of the Conference. In the morning (after I thought I’d broken my toe on my roommate’s bed, but…

>What a fantastic drive it was up from Boston–sunny day, mild temperatures. When I checked in I found that I’d been assigned a house…

>I drove up from Virginia to Boston on Sunday. Should have been a ten-hour drive, but there were massive storms (it rained all through…

>Not that I’ve been a prolific poster lately, but it’s about to get worse. Early tomorrow I am driving to Boston (about 600 miles)…