We live our lives and then relive them on the page in a relentless search for some nugget of discovery, some further comprehension of what it all means.
Maybe we should think of memory itself as an art form … and remember that a work of art is never finished, only abandoned. Brevity’s nonfiction blog has posted an…
Revision, as classically understood, generally relates to the poet’s understanding while composing a poem, via kneading language, via discovering insight. More and more though I find that sort of revision…
It’s been awhile since I’ve been a-Rumpusing, but I got this email from the talented Ashley Bethard thanking me for including her in an old Here Are Some Stories I…
“In truth, memory’s great betrayal, that it will not lie intact in wait for us, is lament enough to revisit in every generation. This is what I go to nonfiction…
Dinty W. Moore, an editor at Brevity and the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction, is interviewed by Matador Notebook on writers. He makes some interesting and useful points about the ever-branching…
A couple weeks ago, I linked to a bunch of very short stories — stories that were superbly written but that only took a few moments to read. People seemed…
Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer for my favorite book of the last few years The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has written a pretty inspiring tale of frustration…