This one is a Merry Solstice present to all the editors and writers out there in the world. It isn’t even really a post, it’s just a link and a bunch of quotes from a wonderful interview with one of the all-time great editors of our era, Robert Gottlieb—the Paris… Read more“Linking to the Robert Gottlieb interview <br>in the <em>Paris Review</em>”
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Linking to the Robert Gottlieb interview
Linking to Indiebound
I just spent the day reading interviews on Writer Unboxed. Do you know about those guys? They’re pretty cool. And they’ve interviewed LOTS of people! I went there originally this morning to re-read their interviews with Donald Maass and Lisa Rector and refresh my memory for the co-interview I’m doing… Read more“Linking to Indiebound”
Linking to three great pieces
Susan Johnson of The Urban Muse has done a really nice piece today on creativity, or What I Learned About Being a Fiction Writer from Musical Theater. And I’m not just saying this because I live with a musical theater buff who can sing all of The Pirates of Penzance… Read more“Linking to three great pieces”
Linking to Glimmer Train
I’m going on vacation for a couple of weeks. Every year my family celebrates with great hope the extreme low point of the year at the Winter Solstice—like everyone else, I guess—and then takes the ten days between that and New Year’s Eve as time out of time, that gap… Read more“Linking to Glimmer Train”
Linking to the Writers’ Emergency Assistance Fund
December’s mania is the Season of Giving. Thank you to Susan Johnston of The Urban Muse for promoting the Writers’ Emergency Assistance Fund. This fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable trust made up of donations from writers like you to help freelance nonfiction writers in times of acute financial distress. As… Read more“Linking to the Writers’ Emergency Assistance Fund”
Linking to Moby Dick
I’ve mentioned before my addiction to the Hugh Laurie characterization of P.G. Wodehouse‘s quintessential dingaling, Bertie Wooster. Bertie is everything hopelessly one-sided about the British upper classes: white, male, rich, privileged, and a complete brainless gorm. He’s melodramatic, narcissistic, and self-glamorizing to the point of insanity. He’s also, fortunately, good-hearted,… Read more“Linking to <em>Moby Dick</em>”
Linking to Millicent Dillon
This week we’re linking to an excerpt from a novel by Millicent Dillon, A Version of Love. I know who Dillon is because in 1995 I stumbled across her biography of Jane Bowles in a bookshop in lower Fillmore in San Francisco, A Little Original Sin, introducing me to the… Read more“Linking to Millicent Dillon”
Linking to the Nobel Prize
Boy, I’ve been sick as a dog all week and am just catching up with work. And guess what I discovered this afternoon? Some of you agents giving advice on Twitter? I really don’t think it’s such a good idea to insult aspiring writers in public. Particularly a writer you’ve… Read more“Linking to the Nobel Prize”
Linking to Mira’s List
Today we’re linking to Mira’s List. Mira is a visual artist, educator, and author with a list of MFA’s you could stack books on. She appears to have been everywhere and done everything, and I also like her because she was an adult in the eighties. (I have very specific… Read more“Linking to Mira’s List”
Linking to the Red Room
Today we’re linking to the Red Room—specifically to an interview Andy Ross, past-owner of Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley, did with Alan Rinzler, Executive Director of the San Francisco Jossey-Bass imprint of Wiley and Sons and an independent editor. Andy has a previous interview with Alan, too. I had lunch with… Read more“Linking to the Red Room”