by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 30, 2010 | place |
At the beginning of summer, Ari Weinzweig wrote about Eudora Welty’s potato salad in the Atlantic. He did not list the ingredients as I do below; instead he wrote sentences about them. “As always, for me, the story behind the food is...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 27, 2010 | reviews |
Jane Addams was a political activist who worked toward, and spoke out, for social justice, including women’s suffrage. I had heard of her but had no idea… In Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight, I discovered that Jane cofounded the NAACP and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 26, 2010 | life |
I don’t hear much about biographies anymore–or autobiographies. Now it’s all about memoir. Not the whole life but a slant on it. Still, biographies are being written. A Pulitzer Prize is given each year for a biography. In 2010, the prize went to The...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 23, 2010 | details, shapes |
In a 1984 Paris Review interview, the writer James Baldwin said the following: I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, “Look.” I looked and all I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 22, 2010 | details |
I painted my toenails orange for June, green for July. They’re sporting yellow polish at the moment. I broke three of my toes growing up–one when I put my bare feet down to stop a swing. My second toes are longer than my big toes, although not by much....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 18, 2010 | Columbus GA, poetry, the day |
“let me catch sight of you again going over the wall and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures guttering on a screen let my words find their own places in the silence after the animals” from “Vixen” by W. S....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 17, 2010 | the day |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 14, 2010 | continuous life, craft of writing, mfa, stories |
Black Maps, a collection of stories by David Jauss, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 1995 (Lorrie Moore/judge). These nine stories–with only one in present tense and the rest in past, and four in third person and five in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 11, 2010 | craft of writing, mfa |
Alone With All That Could Happen is a collection of 7 craft essays by writer David Jauss. I had read some of them when they were first published in AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, but it was time to read them again. I should probably schedule time to reread...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 9, 2010 | mfa, poetry |
David Jauss is my adviser this semester at Vermont College. During the residency, each student creates a reading list, which the adviser must approve. The books on the list may change as writing issues come up, but it’s a place to start. Both semesters...
