Thanks for your help. Appreciate it. I have actually be checking out the website NC, and been reading some of the wonderful lectures by Doug’s students. Some great stuff. Thank you again.

For copyright reasons, it’s a no-go on the CD, but whenever Doug approaches texts, it’s reading like a writer. So check out his posts at Numero Cinq. And I recommend all his essays. His new book Attack of the Copula Spiders will include How to Write a Novel, How to Write a Short Story: Notes on Structure and an Exercise, The Drama of Grammar, The Mind of Alice Munro, Novels and Dreams, A Scrupulous Fidelity: On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser. Then there’s an essay out there somewhere called “How to Read a Mark Anthony Jarman Story,” which is about how to read for rhetorical devices. And his book The Enamoured Knight is about reading Don Quixote. Hope this helps!

Thanks for getting back to me, Cynthia. (I still cringe at reading my original post – but just think of it this way, I was so excited by your Reading Like A Writer series that I could hardly type coherent sentences.)

Nonetheless, I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that Doug will have mercy on me, someone who has truly, truly, truly been looking for information on reading like a writer for months. And then imagine, one day, discovering your website, and realizing that there was really someone out there who shared my interest of such a nuanced topic; it was pure ecstasy!

So, thanks for helping me and I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Dwayne

Nina, great to hear from you. Love those images of the piles breaking into little piles and then reforming into the “big pile” again. Makes me think of the piles as creatures : )

No worries : )

Dwayne, welcome to Catching Days and thanks so much for your kind words about my reading series. I’m glad to know it was helpful. That CD is only available to VCFA students, but I’ve sent Doug an email to ask if the lecture is available any other way. I’ll let you know if it is. I do know that Doug has a new craft book coming out in April, Attack of the Copula Spiders.

Dwayne