by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 17, 2009 | catching moments, life, memoir, time |
My husband just forwarded me an email, sent to him by a law school and golfing buddy, with a YouTube video of Katrina Kenison, the long-time editor of the Best American Short Story series, reading a seven-minute excerpt from her new memoir. As an antidote to these...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 14, 2009 | reading |
In Ron Carlson’s new novel, The Signal, a book that includes both clotheslines and abandoned places, each word counts, as each word should but often doesn’t in novels. The Signal packs a lot into its 184 pages: six days in the life of its main character...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 11, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, life, time |
Behind me climbs a tower of papers, each one containing a thought or a quote or an article that I want to write about here. A few minutes ago, I started shuffling through the stack. About midway down, I stopped on a piece of graph paper on which I had scrawled these...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 8, 2009 | Columbus GA, reading |
Writer Anna Clark is doing a series on her blog, Isak, suggesting that we all choose books as gifts for the holidays. Each almost-daily post in the series suggests not only the title of a book, but also who that book would be perfect for, what edition to buy, and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 1, 2009 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer Elizabeth Benedict I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 29, 2009 | place |
One of the things I’ve discovered through writing this blog, more so than with writing fiction, is that there are certain images I’m drawn to: windows, doorways, row houses, clotheslines. Dory Adams on her blog, In This Light, has been writing about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 27, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, time |
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by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 24, 2009 | poetry |
In most books of poetry, I put a little check in the Table of Contents by the poems I really like. In Shaindel Beers’ first collection of poetry, A Brief History of Time, I liked so many poems that I switched to marking the poems I didn’t love with a tiny...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 21, 2009 | place, shapes |
My writing group is meeting in the Napa Valley this weekend to write. Usually we meet to read and critique each other’s work. On our breaks we take the waters or a mud bath or a culinary excursion to Mustard’s, Greystone, or Ad Hoc. I am encouraged by the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 16, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, my writing |
I thought if I wrote about it here either I might figure it out or maybe one of you would. You see, I’m working on my third piece of fiction where he tries to make an appearance. Which he in fact did last night in Columbus! In a 2001 (early, early) draft of my...
