The personal essay may be over—but Joyce Maynard isn’t. Source: With ‘The Best of Us,’ Joyce Maynard Is Still Oversharing - The Atlantic
Month: September 2017
Looking and the Gaze | Romance on Film
Issues of looking and the gaze are complicated in Summertime (Lean, 1955). Here, despite wielding a camera, Katharine Hepburn's*** character is totally dispossessed of the cinematic agency it might imply. BUT ... That's not all there is to say about it by any means, so I'm headed to a conference in Venice in October … Continue reading Looking and the Gaze | Romance on Film
How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice | Literary Hub
The bottom line is that it takes most academics a long time—whether at the front end of the writing process, at the back end, or both—to produce high-quality work. Apprentice academics may regard the enormous effort involved as a symptom of their own inadequacy, especially if they have been led to believe that writing is … Continue reading How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: Some Anecdotal Advice | Literary Hub
Revenge of Gatsby, Mrs De Winter… the never-ending love for literary sequels | Books | The Guardian
The popularity of the form can mainly be blamed on Hollywood, where the quality of a script is increasingly judged on whether the title could reappear followed by a “two” and ideally a rising succession of digits. Taking their cue from movie studios, writers and publishers began to imagine a second go at stories that … Continue reading Revenge of Gatsby, Mrs De Winter… the never-ending love for literary sequels | Books | The Guardian
I Return
No, I haven't been away from writing since Labor Day, I haven't even been away from the writing of RN2 since Monday, but university tasks have kept me away from blogging for a brief time. Yesterday, for example, I was going to take 15 minutes to finalize a grant application (I've already written about the … Continue reading I Return
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