“You Can’t Write Writing”

A common reader

“A Grammar of Love”

A Word of One’s Own

Albert Camus on the Economic Collapse

An Unlikely Place to Find an Argument

Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life

 

Back to the Futurism – What’s new in Poetryland: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Concrete Poetry

Baseball and the parts of speech

Baseball Breaks Sound Barrier

Bio-Lego-Land: Building a Better Body thru Metaphor

Buckley and the hard work of writing

 

Cage bop Monk lit

Cold frame for improvisation 

Correcting, Grading, and Commenting: Right, Wrong, and Indifferent

 

Dancing with really real stars

Distance of First Person Plural

 

E. B. White and the plumber

Eca de Queiros and a Metaphysical Googlelarity

El Porto Waltz

Emily Post’s Rhetorical Garden: A Field of Claims, Evidence, and Warrants

E. O. Wilson’s Happy Ant in Mary Midgley’s Primate Picnic

Every day is moving day on the Internet streets

 

Flannery O’Connor and the Coen Brothers

From bookface to facebook

From Iran: “Don’t send me no more letters no,” not unless you Twitter them.

From the Gutenberg to a Gatesian Galaxy

 

Gaston Bachelard’s book as shell

George V. Higgins’s On Writing

Global warming in The Great Gatsby

 

Hank Williams sings Huck Finn

Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why

Health Care: Bringing It All Back Home

How Do Professors Think? More Crisis in the Humanities 

 

Into the valley of rejection rode the 850

 

Jane Kramer tosses a toad to Montaigne

Jazzcage

Jesus and the Jazz of Being Existential

John Cage, Cowboy Surf Shop, and Garage Jazz

Joyce’s agenbite of books and boots

Joyce’s “allforabit”

 

Kicking E. B. White When He’s Down

 

Leisurely reading habits

Letter of Ourself 

Live Reading, Patricia Marx 

Lord I’m 500 words away from home

 

Max Shulman’s “Love is a Fallacy”

More on reading influences and touching again on the reading crisis

More on the reading crisis

 

n+1 clips The Believer’s sneakers

 

On Reading Well

Our Believer book award choices (2007)

Our 2008 Believer Book Award Choices

Overhearing one’s own writing

 

Precursor to Garrison Keillor

 

Reading at a masquerade ball

Reading declines, unobtrusively

Reading influences

Reading Roland Barthes’s Writing Degree Zero on Line 15

Robert Frost and the LHC

Rolling Stone’s 50 Reasons to Watch TV

Ruth Reichl Comforts with Apples, Beckett with Words

 

Sister Maryquill’s Style Guide: An APA/MLA etc. Primer

small wave riders

Small Wave Riders 2009 anuual surf trip video

Stanley Fish, Full of Ethos

Strangers to the future

Styled Obsolescence: New Editions for APA and MLA

Susan Sontag and a Valentine for Flannery O’Connor

 

The amateur spirit in writing

The cover’s title

The Eloi and the Morlock

The Idea of Self-Portrait Writing, or A Portrait of the Writer as Reader

The smell of print culture

The way in is the far out

The weightlessness of existentialism

Theory of nothing, something, and everything in between

 

Virginia Woolf’s uncommon reader

Vocabulary Building

 

Wallace Stegner’s On Teaching and Writing Fiction

What we will miss when newspapers disappear 

What will happen to books?

Where Crossan’s historical meets Beckett’s hysterical Jesus

Where jazz and literature get encaged

Where Marilyn Monroe meets Helmut Schmidt in a field of Mellow Yellow

Where weather and writing merge

When we read and write, we argue

Writer’s block

Writer’s list

 

Yevtushenko Vinyl and the Freedom of Discernment