Writing work, that is. (This week I'm actually on official break from the university until I start teaching a class for summer school on June 4.) I've returned to the paper I delivered in Venice last fall as the starting point for my article, and I've dismembered it. It's now lying in chunks on the … Continue reading Back at Work
How Philip Roth Saw His Job
From The New Yorker by Bernard Avishai
Nothing Like Taking a Long Hiatus
How ironic is this? I received an award (in the form of a course release from my teaching load this semester) to work on an academic book chapter (and to research and draft an article about a film on which I presented a paper in Venice last fall). But at the end of this semester? … Continue reading Nothing Like Taking a Long Hiatus
It’s Happening
The memoir-writing, I mean. Actually, it feels way too intimidating to call it that (though that is, indeed, what I expect I'll end up with at the end of this process -- which, given my university life, could take a year ... or multiple years ... and that's okay with me; I have scheduled writing … Continue reading It’s Happening
Going Home: Memoir
Here's the thing. I write and publish in three different genres. To wit: 1) academic books and articles; 2) romantic fiction; 3) creative nonfiction/memoir. I just wrote about my current academic writing obligations and projects yesterday, but after January is over, I don't believe they will occupy all of my writing time. As a result, … Continue reading Going Home: Memoir
Wordsmith@Work 