by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 8, 2009 | accumulation, place |
In a comment to yesterday’s post, a reader reminded me of Jill Krementz’ photographs in The Writer’s Desk, which was published in 1996, the same year as Infinite Jest, and is now out of print. I had forgotten all about this book. I pulled it off the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 7, 2009 | accumulation, place |
The Guardian has for some time been doing a series on writers’ rooms. The most recent piece featured Michael Morpurgo: “For many years, I wrote on our bed in the house. But there were complaints about ink on the sheets, dirty feet on the bed…”...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 3, 2009 | reading |
David Foster Wallace’s 1079 page Infinite Jest has been in residence in my study for 13 years–since 1996. When I first heard about Infinite Summer, I glanced over at the large book on the bottom of my ToBeRead shelf, and I thought nooooo. Then, after...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 1, 2009 | craft of writing, essays, reviews |
The Writer’s Notebook, with its title taken from the journals of Somerset Maugham, consists of 17 essays on the craft of writing. Some, but not all, are based on craft seminars given at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. I did not read them in order, but...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 29, 2009 | accumulation, reading |
In 1999, I started keeping a list of the books I read on an old computer program called Sidekick, which was amazing because you could create cardfiles and name the categories exactly what you wanted to. As the years went by, they did not update the program. It became...
