Comments on: How We Spend Our Days: Robert Boswell

By: wxw: tomales bay 2014 | catching days

wxw: tomales bay 2014 | catching days — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:22:03 +0000

[…] Back to join Pam Houston for another year were Antonya Nelson and Dorothy Allison, and also teaching classes this year were Andre, Kwame, and Robert Boswell. […]

By: cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:43:31 +0000

In reply to Kristen @ Motherese. Kristen! I’m so sorry. Notification of your comment went into my spam file. Belated thanks for reading and leaving a comment on this post. I’m married to an attorney—I would imagine that’s very different than being married to a writer : )

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:42:03 +0000

This is delicious and, frankly, awe-inspiring. (My husband and I are both writers, but both of us more closely resemble Robert’s fog than Toni’s efficiency.) Love this entry in your excellent series, Cynthia.

By: writersideup

writersideup — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:37:11 +0000

In reply to cynthia. Thanks for your wonderful blog, Cynthia :D

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:46:46 +0000

Darrelyn, Patricia, Donna, Teresa, Susanna–thanks for reading and for your lovely comments!

By: susanna

susanna — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:58:28 +0000

Dear Robert, Cynthia,
This is utterly lovely, one of the best ‘How We Spend Our Days’; there is something deft and precise in this text, gently holding the reader as we dive through the dense layers of fog to be suddenly struck by shards of sunlight. Brilliant!
Thank-you. Merci,
Susanna

By: Teresa Burns Gunther

Teresa Burns Gunther — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:39:57 +0000

Oh, what a delight to start my day reading this! Fine medicine as leave AWP. I’m using your revision techniques you so generously shared at Bread Loaf and in Sacramento– it’s revolutionizing my process. Had the great joy to work with Toni too, at Bread Loaf. Thanks to you both! And to Cindy for posting this.

By: writersideup

writersideup — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 04:29:25 +0000

I had so many thoughts for comment as I read, and now I don’t know where to begin. I think I’ll say I ditto what Darrelyn said —because I do. Robert, you are a master of metaphor and simile. Your classes must be amazing! And I’d sincerely like to clone your mentality as far as your true love and appreciation for your wife. You are rare and quite the gift to her as she is to you 😀

By: Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 01:05:17 +0000

Thank you for this. Unexpected riches. I took a workshop with Toni, and I agree, she is a wonder. As are you.

By: Darrelyn Saloom

Darrelyn Saloom — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:40:47 +0000

I don’t want to leave this post. Blame Zeus’ thunderbolts, the love you have for your wife, petting your truck. And the morning fog. My husband wakes up in the same “dryer lint.” It’s a marvel to watch him make coffee in the morning. I never say a word until after his first cup.