by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 23, 2008 | memory, shapes, truth |
Charles Frazier’s second book,Thirteen Moons, is narrated by Will Cooper, who has a friend named Bear, a Cherokee Indian chief. “I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. ...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 22, 2008 | my writing |
marry tale #2: the kitten Once upon a time there was a man and a woman, who decided to become the husband and the wife. They were very new at being the husband and the wife and had no skills at it. And so they had a problem. They weren’t quite sure how to handle...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 20, 2008 | novels, reviews, stories |
In a 1921 New York Times article entitled, “What is a Novel, Anyhow?”, Henry Kitchell Webster, writes “A novel is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a fictitious prose narrative of sufficient length to fill one or more volumes. Well, do you...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 18, 2008 | catching moments, details |
The Oxford American Dictionary defines collaboration as “working jointly, especially in a literary or artistic production.” It defines commitment as “the process or an instance of committing oneself.” And committing as “pledging or...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 16, 2008 | memoir |
In his memoir, Dog Years, the poet Mark Doty writes, “only part of our reality is representable in words. I feel immersed in things I can’t name most of the time.” Still, he is a poet and a writer. He spends his life fighting against the...
