by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 18, 2010 | memory, my writing, the day |
I’m approaching this post as I do my writing these days: without a plan in mind, I just sit down in front of the keyboard and continue. Taking a break from the Christmas list, I wonder whether to write about the holidays, which reminds me of the first line of a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 14, 2010 | accumulation, life, the day, time |
As a perfect follow-up to the photos I posted on Sunday, a friend gave me an early holiday gift today that now hangs on the door to my study: At this time of year, when the demands/desires of the holiday season are heaped on top of our already overflowing lives, all...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 12, 2010 | accumulation, details, life, the day, time |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 8, 2010 | essays, memory |
A list makes me feel as if I’m in control of things. It’s a little summary of what I have to do. And if I can just get “it” on a list, it’s in line to be done. It will get done. On Sunday, in The New York Times Book Review, in the essay...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 1, 2010 | 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 Susanna Daniel: The problem with writing about a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 30, 2010 | accumulation, journeys, mfa, time |
I dropped the last packet of the six-month semester into the FedEx box yesterday afternoon. After I fill out some end-of-the-semester forms, I will have completed the first year of my two-year program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. To celebrate I went to run in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 25, 2010 | poetry, the day |
from the archives: november 27, 2008 Jane Hirshfield writes: Having eaten the pears. Having eaten the black figs, the white figs. Eaten the apples. Table be strewn. Table be strewn with stems, table with peelings of grapefruit and pleasure. Table be...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 22, 2010 | craft of writing |
Another thing is the dialogue. In the early pages of By Nightfall, Peter is in bed with his wife, and they’re flipping channels on the TV. They stop on Vertigo. I’m going to cut into the middle of the conversation where the line that starts the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 18, 2010 | craft of writing |
So much to love about Michael Cunningham’s new novel, By Nightfall, set in the New York art world. One of my favorite things is the way the main character Peter describes his world by reference to literary markers. For example, on the first page, he describes a...
