A Liturgy, a Great Release: On Becoming My Wife’s Writing Partner at the End of Her Life
When my wife Tallu died from a brain tumor in February, it happened how her doctor had said it might, and how all the books and pamphlets and friends and...
Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List
Be more like Nero. Not reality’s dull politician, but his enemies’ fiddle-playing caricature. He embodied joyful sanity in the midst of the opposite. The...
Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing
Author and activist Marie Myung-Ok Lee is astonishing. In the spring of 2017 I had the incredible luck of sitting across from her and her late best friend, the...
Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway
“What I always thought the finest thing in the theater, ever since childhood and even now, is the chandelier. . .” –Baudelaire * A film star is not a...
A Few Notes on the Past (and Possible Future) of Public Mourning
Hugging the northern border of Baja California, a highway called La Rumorosa cuts through the Sierra de Juárez. It’s long been regarded as one of the...
Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago...
An Island
It was the first time that an oil drum had washed up on the scattered pebbles of the island shore. Other items had arrived over the years—ragged shirts, bits...
How to Revise a Novel: A Revision List to Edit With Confidence
The article How to Revise a Novel: A Revision List to Edit With Confidence appeared first on The Write Practice. Finishing a first draft is a huge deal. If you...
Lit Hub Weekly: May 16-20, 2022
TODAY: In 1910, French author Colette begins to publish her novel The Vagabond in serial form. “To live with other people is to be responsible for...
