November 2011
6 posts
On Not Rolling the Log
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Today The Dial is in the hands of novelist Glen David Gold, who explores the prickliness of literary sociality, the loneliness of an aging William Faulkner, and other tribulations that flesh is heir to.
— Tom Lutz
Transactions along the Mississippi Delta GLEN DAVID GOLD Recently, I spoke to a group of MFA students at the University of...
Antoine Wilson's Notes on "Hack"
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¤ ANTOINE WILSON Notes on “Hack” “Taste has no system and no proofs.” —Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp’”
1. To start with comedy. There is only one unimpeachable criterion: Is it funny? But a question follows close behind: Funny to whom? 2. Apocrypha from the world of television: A sitcom writers’ room is working late into the night, trying to generate the...
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… [Lynda Barry] told a story about the neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran, who helps patients experiencing phantom-limb pain. Barry discussed one patient who felt that his missing left hand was clenched in a fist and could never shake the discomfort — could never “unclench” it.
So Ramachandran used a mirror box — a compartment into which...
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See Your Own Trouble Reflected
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… [Lynda Barry] told a story about the neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran, who helps patients experiencing phantom-limb pain. Barry discussed one patient who felt that his missing left hand was clenched in a...
“….from Bernard Malamud:
“If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on...”
– The Drawing Board (Terri Windling’s blog): On Creative Burn-out: Part IV
Reading all the parts, all the quotes, and everything Terri posts: Always recommended.
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