Friday Finds for Writers
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Happy weekend!
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend.
Happy weekend!
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
The privileged inheritor of a weaving-mill fortune, the refined manuscript collector, the model son, model friend, model benefactor, model socialite and model assimilated Jew could not possibly have anything in common with the fixated deviants inhabiting his pages.
Source: André Aciman, review of George Prochnik’s new book on Stefan Zweig, for The Wall Street Journal.
Last week brought the publication of my first piece for The Barnes & Noble Review: a review of Anthony Doerr’s oh-so-impressive new novel All the Light We Cannot See. I’m really proud of this review and happy to share it.
Something interesting happened with this assignment that I thought I’d mention here as a sort of how-to reminder.
If you’re a reviewer and/or familiar with the galley versions that are circulated to reviewers and other early readers ahead of publication, you may have noticed these cautionary words that often accompany them: (more…)
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)