by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 16, 2011 | accumulation, craft of writing, novels, stories, time |
In the surprisingly interesting Reader’s Guide at the back of Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply, Chaon writes: As a writer, I feel like I’m always in conversation with the books that I’ve read. Yiyun Li, the author of The Vagrants, feels the same...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 21, 2011 | essays, my writing, novels, poetry, reviews, stories |
Summer Contrary is online with new fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as reviews of these books : Poetry: Northerners by Seth Abramson Essays: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer and A Journey with Two Maps by Eaven Boland Fiction: And Yet They Were...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 17, 2011 | craft of writing, essays, life, mfa, poetry, reviews, stories |
For the last couple of months at Hunger Mountain, Claire Guyton, former Art +Life editor, and I have been working together to expand that section of the journal into The Writing Life. Here’s what’s up and coming at THE WRITING LIFE: 1) ANOTHER LOOSE SALLY...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 24, 2011 | essays, stories |
If you haven’t visited the Harvard Book Store, take a minute and pop over there. Watch the shutters open and the store come to life. See what books fill their front windows. Click for a close-up; double click to look inside a book. With your mouse, you can zoom...
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 | Feb 24, 2011 | craft of writing, essays, memory, poetry, stories |
One I’d heard of before. Three I hadn’t. Some were free at AWP; some were not. In each one, I found something that made me glad I’d lugged it home–either connecting with the words of writers I didn’t know or finding new poems and stories...
