reading and writing a life
We have lost a lot of greats since 2016. The most recent great who touched my poet’s soul and was among my list of favorite writers left us on October 14th. Upon hearing the news, I reached for the one book of his I own. Later on, I remembered this—a piece written for a poetry […]
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Tell me why any writer should ever stop writing. Recently I voiced my concern about being cut-off from the Real World. It’s fair to say that a lot of my choices over the past few years have had consequences — a bit of a snowball effect, if you will — and so now it’s not […]
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That critical eye… Perhaps the most difficult part of writing — once I have actually gotten the words on the page — is being able to use a critical eye appropriately. I have a tendency to hyper-focus on all the wrong things, and thus, miss the most important issues that an objective reader will immediately […]
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Today I am working on a Table of Contents and Acknowledgements page. I still don’t have notes and final editing on some of the work to be included, but a long weekend of more ice and icy temperatures are ahead… so. Writing Acknowledgements just might be the most intimidating thing I have ever done. Even […]
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In Tuesday’s New York Times, the Bookends column asks Cheryl Strayed and Benjamin Moser, “Is This A Golden Age For Women Essayists?” Strayed opens with a shot across the bow: Would we ever think to ask if this is a golden age for men essayists? Is it even…
Throughout Alice Munro’s Dear Life, the writer’s brilliant skill in storytelling simultaneously thrilled and humbled me. Her style, though unique and saturated with her own voice, adheres perfectly to those heralded devices that made the modern short story a distinctively modern literary creation. She is succinct in revealing human foibles, regional charm, and the passage […]
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Kathy Boles-Turner 