by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 16, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, life, mfa, the day |
So Thursday morning was luxuriously wide open and the plan was to write a blog post and read about 50 pages of the novel I’m working on. I read the first paragraph of the novel about ten times and then put the papers down. Okay, blog post. Nothing. I answered a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 14, 2010 | life, mfa, the day, truth |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 8, 2010 | provincetown |
In The Maytrees, Annie Dillard wrote, She herself hoped to paint, soberly, when she got old. In 2009, a week before I headed to Provincetown, I read in The Provincetown Banner that, at the age of 64, Annie Dillard was doing just that. Although she usually painted...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 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 Hannah Tinti: 6:30 am: I get up and walk my dog,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 30, 2010 | catching moments, Columbus GA, shapes |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 28, 2010 | catching moments, life, novels, place, reading, the day, time |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 24, 2010 | craft of writing, essays, mfa, stories |
Last Saturday I spent the day with Chekhov. I don’t know how many of you notice what I’m reading on the sidebar, but it seemed to me that I’d been reading this small old-fashioned-looking book–A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories–for...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 22, 2010 | first novels, my writing, reviews, time |
The new issue of Contrary Magazine is online with my review of Susanna Daniel’s first novel, Stiltsville. Here’s the first paragraph of the review: A stilt house off the shore of Miami is a wondrous and fragile thing, built against all odds of survival. As...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 20, 2010 | details, essays, memory, reading |
In The New York Times “Sunday Book Review,” with a very cool cover by Maira Kalman, James Collins wrote the essay at the back, “The Plot Escapes Me,” on whether there’s a point to reading books when we can’t remember what’s in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 16, 2010 | details, journeys, mfa, the day, time |
Transitions sometimes take my breath away. Despite the fact that on Sunday I got up at 5:30 am mountain time to ease myself back into eastern standard, seven am still feels like five am. Vacation to Life. Suitcase to drawers. Behind to behind-er. Last week in...
