by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 13, 2009 | craft of writing, details, memoir, memory, reviews, shapes |
I don’t write memoir. But I like the way Abigail Thomas writes, the way she tells the truth. “My truth doesn’t travel in a straight line, it zigzags, detours, doubles back. Most truths I have to learn over and over again.” I got hooked on the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 24, 2009 | catching moments, details, shapes |
In January, I went to lunch with a friend. She asked what my “coolest” Christmas gift was. “My son gave me two Wilco CDs,” I said. “Which ones?” she asked. “I don’t know. I just put them on my ipod.” Are we losing our senses? Is the feel of life slipping away? Maybe...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 8, 2009 | catching moments, craft of writing, journeys, shapes |
Which leads to another…. For the last post, I was looking for a quote by Henri Matisse that I never found by the way about not needing to show the whole shape of something in order for the viewer to grasp what you’re creating. In fact, for the Barnes...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 5, 2009 | shapes |
“Obituaries, I believe, are really less about death than the odd shapes life takes, the patterns that death allows us to see.” The Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo But it’s not death that allows us to see the patterns. Death just gives us the last few...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 22, 2009 | craft of writing, shapes, stories |
In 1985 Russell Banks wrote “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story.” It was first published in The Missouri Review, then in The Best American Short Stories 1985, then in The Angel on the Roof. You can also listen to it on a podcast. The first sentence: ...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 6, 2009 | Columbus GA, essays, obsession, Pam Houston, provincetown, shapes, truth |
When Georgia Heard was asked what one image she thought represented her life, she answered “layers,” clarifying “as in the Grand Canyon.” I would have to say houses, as in rows of identical ones. Georgia Heard wrote in Writing Toward Home,...
