http://wehavebeards.com Discussing Movies, Books, Music, TV, Art and Food Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:51:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:39:46 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1746 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 [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:10 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1691 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 [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/feed/ 1 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:12:39 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1619 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 [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/02/12/black-beard-explains-how-to-write-realistic-fiction-and-thats-all/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/02/12/black-beard-explains-how-to-write-realistic-fiction-and-thats-all/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:19:52 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=807 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 [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/02/12/black-beard-explains-how-to-write-realistic-fiction-and-thats-all/feed/ 2