Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz Equal parts Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. I wanted to say this book is a fun read, and it is, in the sense of how you proceed […]
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain I binge read this the weekend after Anthony Bourdain died. I had never read it previously. I knew him to be churlish and talented. I was unaware that he had struggled with substance abuse.I saw him as […]
What would be your ideal place to write? I think about this a lot. It frequently involves me living in the 1920s, maybe in Paris as Hemingway and Fitzgerald did. I’d roll out of the rumpled bed in my flat, and head […]
I’ve been an avid reader for decades but lately I find that I get sidetracked all the time with a million other things. Most notably in recent years, the Internet. I read, I read all day. I read websites, I read blogs, […]
Here is a great article from Publishing Talk regarding NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges. My favorite part of the article is what the author, Sarah Salway says about an excerpt from Art and Fear: It reminds me of a famous experiment […]
Are you prepared? Tips and schedule of AMAs (Ask Me Anything) from Reddit. Free content from Writer’s Digest. National Novel Writing Month Official Site
So, I spent a lot of time with Hemingway’s Short Stories this summer. I really didn’t care for a lot of them, so it was quite a slog. I initially thought that it was just me. After all this was Hemingway and […]
This is from the Barnes and Noble Book Club and could not come at a better time: 5 Must-Read Books About (and by) Ernest Hemingway Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson Hemingway: The 1930s through the Final Years by Michael Reynolds Paris Without […]
I had never read any of Ernest Hemingway’s work until this past year when I read A Movable Feast in preparation to read A Paris Wife. I always considered him a man’s writer, a misogynist and a drunk. Mind you, this judgment […]