Hilton Als on First Books
I think that most first books or projects that are more ambitious than magazine articles tend to be about the writer himself. The writer is…
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On Studying Poetry and Writing Prose
Here's a snippet from a recent "Brevity" blog post by Anna Vodicka that really resonated with me: The poetry class did not make me a poet. I…
Patrick Madden on the Essay
"The essay is a meditative form in which the author's personality is revealed not but what she has done but what what she has thought." -- Patrick…
Robert Root on Teaching
"The great thing about teaching writing is that you remind yourself of things you already knew." From Robert Root, nonfiction writer, editor, and teacher, co-author…
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