When I was traveling through the Midwest about a month ago, I randomly took a copy of the Wall Street Journal from the lobby of my hotel on the way out one morning, and on the front page was an article about the growing popularity of digital books. The reporting focused specifically on the rise ...
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In Poetics, Aristotle offers two valuable observations about the creation of art. First, and most significantly, Aristotle tells us "not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it inartistically". In other words, it is less important for a writer not to be fully informed about the ...
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Recently a friend asked me to make a list of books I would recommend for someone who would like to read some serious literature, and in doing so, I realized that a list like this could serve as a useful primer for anyone who reads what I write in this space. That being said, what ...
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So far, I’ve been able to avoid spending an entire post ruminating on the process of writing fiction. It’s true, I suppose, that in a way everything I’ve discussed is somehow related to my views on the creative process, but I have not, until today, explicitly stated how I think one should go about writing ...
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