by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 18, 2011 | poetry, shapes, stories |
Inch. Do you know this tiny journal? I discovered it at AWP. Small. Gray. Thin. Tiny poems. Tiny fiction. A single issue costs $1. Bull City Press publishes 4 issues a year. Ross White is the Editor, and guess what? Robin Black is the Fiction Editor. I didn’t...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 12, 2011 | catching moments, obsession, shapes |
Although I love the way Catching Days looks on the computer, I love love love the way it looks on an iPad. If you have one (or the next time you see somebody using one, borrow it for a second), take a look. It’s kind of weird that the blog looks different...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 8, 2011 | novels, reviews |
So, David Shields’ manifesto Reality Hunger. Structure: 618 short sections grouped into 26 chapters. Subject: our hunger for the real as opposed to the invented. Shields makes some strong points and shares some controversial ideas, most of which, in the real...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 1, 2011 | 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 Kim Wright: Saturday morning. Like a lot of writers,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 26, 2011 | catching moments, life, obsession, place, the day, time |
After seeing my photos of the ocean, a friend wrote that she could tell the ocean pulls me and grounds me at the same time. What an amazing thing to know from a photo. Seven days the first week of April–spring break–in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, in a house...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 23, 2011 | journeys, life, obsession, place, the day, time |
It’s so quiet now, without the waves pounding in the background. The first week in April we had our own wonderful steps to the beach. I went to the grocery before I left, and after I arrived on Friday, the first, I did not set foot in a car until we pulled out...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 18, 2011 | reading |
The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded today to A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.” For more...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 17, 2011 | accumulation, details, reviews |
Sherry Turkle asked scientists, humanists, artists, and designers to “trace the power of objects in their lives, objects that connect them to ideas and people.” In Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, published in 2007, you’ll find thirty-four...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 13, 2011 | reviews |
Excited to have my most recent review picked up by the National Book Critics Circle and Powell’s Books as the Review-a-Day for today:
