Follow the Link: Conversation with Michael Cunningham. The Positive Aspects of Creative Writing Workshops We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of. You wouldn’t get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling. Gotta make you understand. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Fantasy as literature? Really?
The Art of Fantasy? Is fantasy literature? These and other questions are discussed as try to understand why fantasy (and other “genre” writing) is looked down upon by “literary” types.
Follow the Quote: There is no quote, so here’s a link to “Anything I’m Not” By Lenka
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The End of The Written Word?
In this podcast: Will the written word be dead in twenty-five years? A response to Phillip Roth’s comments: are books and newspapers obsolete? How about the Kindle? Will reading be the next punk-rock counter-culture thing?
“…against all those screens, I think, the book can’t measure up.”
- Phillip Roth
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Workshop: a Terrible Place?In this podcast: Quote from Sandra Cisneros (25th Anniversary of The House on Mango Street) and the experience of “workshops.” Daynee and Carlos discuss the not so good aspects of creative writing workshops and some of the kinds of feedback one may get in a beginners workshop.
SANDRA CISNEROS
Follow the quote to the interview at WNYC.org
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The Small Press Scene
In this podcast: (explicit quote by Junot Diaz) The Small Press, a conversation with D. Cullen Nolan local author and founder of Phoenix Tree Publishing. Announcements: 1 Crafty Bastards, an exhibition/sale of handmade alternative arts and crafts from independent artists. 2 Write Night, an open enrollment creative writing workshop in the DC area. 3 Mixtape, a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
My Head Fills With My Own Yak – Topic: Fiction
In this podcast: What is Fiction? We try to answer this question drawing from William Faulkner’s “Banquet Speech” and Loorie Moore’s “Dance in America.”
William Faulkner
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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