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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Kaledo Art
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Session 26
Another great session recorded at the Vermont Studio Center a year ago. This one features Vicente Lozano reading an excerpt from his novel-in-progress. It's wildly compelling and fantastic.
This summer we'll offer up four more readings from Vermont.
We're taking our time, stretching out the lit goodness. Enjoy.
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I recently began leading a new workshop composed of students in their 50s and 60s. All have children and busy careers. And I sometimes wonder, as I look around the room, why at this late stage they’ve chosen to write at all. I fear that perhaps I’m giving them false hope. But it’s hard for me to remain cynical when I think about their motives. What they’re seeking is exactly what I wanted: the refuge of stories, which remain the most reliable paths to meaning ever devised by our species.
Writer Steve Almond talking about the need for storytelling. From the NY Times.
Session 25
Megan Levad reads a great set of poems in Lively Words Session 25. It's awesome and filled with real bird sounds in the woods.
Several of them are featured in a recent issue of Fence.
Recorded at the Vermont Studio Center last May. Check it out.
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer “How should novels be?” but “Why write novels at all?”
From a timely and pertinent article in the New York Times.
I’m put in some exotic box...I’m like Cheech Marin. I’m the colorful sidekick. I feel that a lot.
From a NY Times article about fiction writer Dagoberto Gilb, who is back at work after recovering from a stroke in 2009.
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citizenkerry:
I’m so tired of reading about remarkable people and then finding out they’re only 26. Good for them, bad for me. I know that their lives have nothing to do with mine, but the point is: I don’t hear very often about awesome people who got their start later in life. And sometimes it seems like if you aren’t exactly where you want to be by age 33, then tough luck to ya. (Although, when I told Joanna this, she very wisely told me, “Kerry, no one’s exactly where they want to be!”)
So when Tracey (of the NYC marathon fame) told me about a series called “Post 40 Bloomers” on the website The Millions, I had a feeling I’d fall in love. It looks at novelists who didn’t start writing seriously until after 40 because they’d pursued other careers and lives. The lady behind the series, Sonya Chung, is a good lil writer. Oh, I hope you enjoy!
Have a good weekend!
Happy Veteran’s Day!
vintageanchor:
“The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.” —Alice Munro
vintageanchor:
“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.” ― Barry Lopez
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Steve Jobs.
From a collection of his quotes on the Wall Street Journal page.
So often I hear a writer say, 'I have to make myself write.' I always bristle at this, even though I’ve said it myself. I bristle because I have this naive belief that 'real' writers don’t have to make themselves write.
From literary agent Betsy Lerner's blog. She rules.
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Publishers are terrified and don’t know what to do
Dennis Loy Johnson of Melville House
From a New York Times article on Amazon's push to publish authors while cutting out traditional publishing houses
vintageanchor:
“I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.”
—Sandra Cisneros
vintageanchor:
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” ―Raymond Carver
He didn’t hide anything in his journals. In real life, he did, both in his monologues and in his day-to-day existence.
Kathleen Russo, wife of Spalding Gray, on the experience of reading his personal journals. In a New York Times article.
Session 24
There's so much to like about Carl Adamshick's poetry. I'm not the only one who thinks so. His collection Curses and Wishes won the 2010 Walt Whitman Award. Check out this reading we recorded in May at the Vermont Studio Center. It's gold.
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Session 23
Nina Alvarez reads a wonderful and strangely beautiful excerpt from her novel-in-progress in this session. Nina one of the great people I met during my residency at the Vermont Studio Center in May and I'm excited to feature her work here. This reading is the second of a series I recorded in Vermont. I'll be posting more in the months to come.
Session 22
After taking nearly a year off, Lively Words is bringing back the goodness. And the 2011 literary goodness starts with Christina Olson, a fantastic poet I met while I was in Vermont last month. Her first book of poetry, Before I Came Home Naked, won the Spire Press annual contest and was published last year. I'm excited to present Christina's reading as the opening to a set of several sessions I recorded in Vermont. I'll be posting these as the summer unfolds. In the meantime, enjoy this great reading.
