by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 27, 2010 | life, memoir |
Julian Barnes wrote Nothing To Be Frightened Of, a memoir about death, “in order to make the fear familiar.” I’m not sure he succeeds, but he does write with a compelling “matter-of-factness” about the subject: I suspect that if I get any...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 26, 2010 | accumulation, life, mfa, the day |
Yesterday started off rainy and ended with beautiful fall blue skies. And yesterday I started the day with two packets to turn in for this semester and ended the day with only one remaining. Today it’s very coppery and auburn outside. No rain but no blue...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 22, 2010 | first novels, place |
The Wake of Forgiveness, the debut novel by Bruce Machart–officially out as of yesterday from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt–has a big storyteller narrator who knows how to describe sweeping panoramas and then move seamlessly in for a close-up. We follow an owl...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 19, 2010 | accumulation, catching moments, journeys, life, the day, time |
It’s been another year and I missed it–completely never even thought about it until Friday night when I was visiting another blog, reading a post about how that week was that blog’s two-year anniversary–still not thinking about it–and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 16, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, life, mfa, the day |
So Thursday morning was luxuriously wide open and the plan was to write a blog post and read about 50 pages of the novel I’m working on. I read the first paragraph of the novel about ten times and then put the papers down. Okay, blog post. Nothing. I answered a...
