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How We Spend Our Days: Dani Shapiro

How We Spend Our Days: Dani Shapiro

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 1, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, How We Spend Our Days | 15 comments

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 DANI SHAPIRO: I awake as I...
details, details

details, details

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 22, 2009 | catching moments, craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, details, Pam Houston | 8 comments

In the car yesterday, I was listening to the CD that came with The Writer’s Notebook. On it are two recordings. One was a discussion on character. On the panel were Ron Carlson, Dorothy Allison, and Dennis Johnson. There was no introduction; it just started....
playing with time

playing with time

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 22, 2009 | craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, reviews, time | 1 comment

Starting with the prologue, in which the narrator calls on the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov, time is everywhere present in Dani Shapiro’s Fugitive Blue.  I read the novel in January of last year so time is playing with me and my memory as well. “Nabokov did...
family history

family history

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 30, 2008 | craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, details | 1 comment

Dani Shapiro is one of my all-time favorite writers.  She knows how to tell a story–how to slowly release details in order to build tension and lure the reader forward. The first book of hers I read was Family History, published in 2003, but which I did not...

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