by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2014 | 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.” At this time in 2010, I was working with my advisor David Jauss, and I invited...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 23, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, poetry, stories |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and...
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...