writing

205 posts

1. Is this thing on? December 13, 2022
2. What Do We Mean When We Call Art ‘Necessary’? January 29, 2019
3. I Move to Keep Things Whole January 13, 2018
4. Why Walking Helps Us Think January 4, 2018
5. My Writing Education: A Time Line - The New Yorker November 20, 2015
6. Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? by John McWhorter — Aeon November 19, 2015
7. November 5, 2015 November 5, 2015
8. September 14, 2015 September 14, 2015
9. Thrillers June 9, 2015
10. The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean on the magic and mystery of writing May 9, 2015
11. Why Everyone's Saying 'YAAAAAASSSSSS' Now April 22, 2015
12. March 10, 2015 March 10, 2015
13. Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 158, Shelby Foote February 5, 2015
14. November 18, 2014 November 18, 2014
15. Write a Damn Blog (with tweets) · funkaoshi · Storify November 11, 2014
16. Ten Short Rants About #GamerGate | Popehat November 9, 2014
17. Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone - NYTimes.com September 29, 2014
18. The Internet Has a Problem(atic) - The Awl September 29, 2014
19. Against “Against [X]” - The New Yorker August 30, 2014
20. The Cold Stoicism of Advice Columns for Men August 5, 2014
21. Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (review) July 23, 2014
22. July 20, 2014 July 20, 2014
23. The Joy of Typing June 22, 2014
24. M: Roger Angell, A Hall-of-Famer at 93 June 7, 2014
25. Structure March 27, 2014
26. March 11, 2014 March 11, 2014
27. Anorexia, the Impossible Subject December 16, 2013
28. Critical thinking #4: Daniel Mendelsohn December 6, 2013
29. Man vs. Corpse November 18, 2013
30. Schulz on the Terrors, Pleasures of Robert Frost -- Vulture November 15, 2013
31. The Arts - €”Agents of Change and Source of Enchantment | Catholic World Report October 28, 2013
32. Cormac McCarthy's Vocabulary Is Better Than Yours: Blood Meridian {spoilers!} August 10, 2013
33. Two New Books About Jorge Luis Borges : The New Yorker August 2, 2013
34. Borges and the Sharknado Problem July 29, 2013
35. bookforum talks with karl ove knausgaard - bookforum.com / interviews July 8, 2013
36. June 14, 2013 June 14, 2013
37. April 30, 2013 April 30, 2013
38. Nieman Reports | ‘Writing is all about rewriting, which means you’ve got to get something down.’ February 26, 2013
39. My Perfect Adventure: Frugal Traveler Columnist Seth Kugel | My Perfect Adventure | OutsideOnline.com February 13, 2013
40. January 28, 2013 January 28, 2013
41. A Wealth of Words by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., City Journal WInter 2013 January 28, 2013
42. January 23, 2013 January 23, 2013
43. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year - NYTimes.com January 7, 2013
44. When Bram Met Walt | Humanities December 28, 2012
45. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film December 27, 2012
46. Los Angeles Review of Books - What Would DFW Do: Maria Bustillos, Eric Been, And Mike Goetzman On "Both Flesh And Not" And All Things Foster Wallace November 26, 2012
47. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review | The Guardian November 25, 2012
48. November 20, 2012 November 20, 2012
49. November 8, 2012 November 8, 2012
50. n+1: Money September 7, 2012
51. Random! Postmodern Bio Blurbs » 3:AM Magazine September 5, 2012
52. Punctuation Marks by Theodor Adorno [pdf] August 28, 2012
53. Chiasmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia August 16, 2012
54. August 7, 2012 August 7, 2012
55. Felix: The weird NYT apologetic boast July 29, 2012
56. July 11, 2012 July 11, 2012
57. July 9, 2012 July 9, 2012
58. The Four Deadly Fallacies, Pathetic and Otherwise June 21, 2012
59. Zing!: What the New Science of the New Sciences Tells Us About Our Unquenchable Craving for the Illusion of Scientifically-Validated Insight | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think June 13, 2012
60. May 20, 2012 May 20, 2012
61. May 14, 2012 May 14, 2012
62. Complete text of an invitation to a friend's party last Friday night May 7, 2012
63. Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson [pdf] April 18, 2012
64. The New Kendrick Lamar/Dr. Dre Song, and Other Examples of Egregiously Obvious Ghostwriting - Grantland April 4, 2012
65. March 6, 2012 March 6, 2012
66. March 2, 2012 March 2, 2012
67. March 1, 2012 March 1, 2012
68. February 27, 2012 February 27, 2012
69. February 27, 2012 February 27, 2012
70. The New World of William Carlos Williams by Adam Kirsch | The New York Review of Books February 14, 2012
71. February 6, 2012 February 6, 2012
72. January 21, 2012 January 21, 2012
73. In which teenage Ben Franklin improves his writing by imitation September 26, 2011
74. September 22, 2011 September 22, 2011
75. Southern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia September 21, 2011
76. September 12, 2011 September 12, 2011
77. September 5, 2011 September 5, 2011
78. collision detection: The art of public thinking September 1, 2011
79. The pretender: Dana Spiotta's persuasive performances—By Jonathan Dee (Harper's Magazine) August 29, 2011
80. August 29, 2011 August 29, 2011
81. August 29, 2011 August 29, 2011
82. August 25, 2011 August 25, 2011
83. The Smart Set: On the Road Again - July 29, 2011 August 4, 2011
84. August 3, 2011 August 3, 2011
85. Art Bollocks - Bryan Ashbee July 27, 2011
86. July 4, 2011 July 4, 2011
87. Portrait Of The Bagel As A Young Man June 24, 2011
88. Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism - The Atlantic May 11, 2011
89. May 9, 2011 May 9, 2011
90. Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library | The Awl May 9, 2011
91. Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay! April 26, 2011
92. March 25, 2011 March 25, 2011
93. Behind the Paywall: How New York Times Articles End | VF Daily | Vanity Fair March 18, 2011
94. March 3, 2011 March 3, 2011
95. Marginal Revolution: The quality of fiction vs. the quality of non-fiction March 3, 2011
96. February 8, 2011 February 8, 2011
97. February 3, 2011 February 3, 2011
98. The Problem With Memoirs - NYTimes.com January 31, 2011
99. The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler January 15, 2011
100. Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder January 15, 2011
101. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles - Wikipedia January 11, 2011
102. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles - Wikipedia January 10, 2011
103. Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 3, John McPhee November 22, 2010
104. Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 30, Philip Larkin November 22, 2010
105. Purloined Letters: Are we too quick to denounce plagiarism? November 21, 2010
106. The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' papers tells his story - The Chronicle of Higher Education November 13, 2010
107. November 8, 2010 November 8, 2010
108. The End of the Story - The Believer October 25, 2010
109. October 22, 2010 October 22, 2010
110. October 1, 2010 October 1, 2010
111. All Paris Review Interviews Now Online (!!!) September 20, 2010
112. September 16, 2010 September 16, 2010
113. September 16, 2010 September 16, 2010
114. September 6, 2010 September 6, 2010
115. TMR: An Interview with George Saunders August 26, 2010
116. August 4, 2010 August 4, 2010
117. Death is Not the End - David Foster Wallace: His Legacy and his Critics - The Point Magazine July 13, 2010
118. On The Art Of Fiction - Willa Cather July 8, 2010
119. To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet June 22, 2010
120. Interview with Joyce Carol Oates | Arch Literary Journal June 22, 2010
121. "Somewhere a Dog Barked" - By Rosecrans Baldwin - Slate Magazine June 17, 2010
122. May 6, 2010 May 6, 2010
123. April 29, 2010 April 29, 2010
124. kerouac's rules for spontaneous prose April 13, 2010
125. April 1, 2010 April 1, 2010
126. March 25, 2010 March 25, 2010
127. The Enthusiast - The Atlantic March 18, 2010
128. March 17, 2010 March 17, 2010
129. Five tips for writing non-fiction | The Undercover Economist | FT.com March 9, 2010
130. Wired for Books : Author interviews on MP3 March 4, 2010
131. February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010
132. February 4, 2010 February 4, 2010
133. Postscript: J. D. Salinger - The New Yorker January 28, 2010
134. This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing January 28, 2010
135. January 11, 2010 January 11, 2010
136. Cut This Story! - The Atlantic January 5, 2010
137. January 4, 2010 January 4, 2010
138. December 28, 2009 December 28, 2009
139. December 28, 2009 December 28, 2009
140. December 9, 2009 December 9, 2009
141. November 23, 2009 November 23, 2009
142. November 18, 2009 November 18, 2009
143. November 5, 2009 November 5, 2009
144. November 2, 2009 November 2, 2009
145. Writing as real-time performance « Snarkmarket October 6, 2009
146. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge September 7, 2009
147. Making the Clackity Noise August 25, 2009
148. August 12, 2009 August 12, 2009
149. July 30, 2009 July 30, 2009
150. David Foster Wallace, on success July 22, 2009
151. June 24, 2009 June 24, 2009
152. May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009
153. April 15, 2009 April 15, 2009
154. Oblivion (review: 4/5) March 31, 2009
155. March 31, 2009 March 31, 2009
156. March 15, 2009 March 15, 2009
157. February 26, 2009 February 26, 2009
158. February 24, 2009 February 24, 2009
159. February 24, 2009 February 24, 2009
160. January 1, 2009 January 1, 2009
161. November 25, 2008 November 25, 2008
162. Umberto Eco on "How I Write" October 5, 2008
163. September 2, 2008 September 2, 2008
164. Pocket Poem August 27, 2008
165. August 15, 2008 August 15, 2008
166. August 12, 2008 August 12, 2008
167. August 6, 2008 August 6, 2008
168. August 5, 2008 August 5, 2008
169. July 30, 2008 July 30, 2008
170. Robert Frost on creative growth July 21, 2008
171. July 13, 2008 July 13, 2008
172. June 29, 2008 June 29, 2008
173. June 29, 2008 June 29, 2008
174. June 18, 2008 June 18, 2008
175. Men Made Out of Words June 3, 2008
176. The New Kings of Nonfiction (review: 3/5) June 1, 2008
177. May 26, 2008 May 26, 2008
178. May 20, 2008 May 20, 2008
179. May 18, 2008 May 18, 2008
180. May 12, 2008 May 12, 2008
181. Then! May 7, 2008
182. May 4, 2008 May 4, 2008
183. Against Happiness (review: 2.5/5) April 28, 2008
184. Graphing the accepted spelling of "ThunderCats, ho!" April 23, 2008
185. April 21, 2008 April 21, 2008
186. April 21, 2008 April 21, 2008
187. The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2007 (review: 3.5/5) April 18, 2008
188. April 6, 2008 April 6, 2008
189. March 30, 2008 March 30, 2008
190. March 29, 2008 March 29, 2008
191. February 16, 2008 February 16, 2008
192. The Braindead Megaphone (review: 4.5/5) January 31, 2008
193. January 8, 2008 January 8, 2008
194. January 6, 2008 January 6, 2008
195. The Road (review: 5/5) December 30, 2007
196. December 10, 2007 December 10, 2007
197. November 29, 2007 November 29, 2007
198. November 29, 2007 November 29, 2007
199. November 29, 2007 November 29, 2007
200. November 24, 2007 November 24, 2007
201. November 23, 2007 November 23, 2007
202. November 8, 2007 November 8, 2007
203. Undisciplined reading November 1, 2007
204. The Elements of Style (review: 3/5) October 13, 2007
205. NaBloPoMo is the new NaNoWriMo October 30, 2006