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What’s on my nightstand

When I’m busy writing, my reading speeds up too–searches for inspiration have me casting far and wide, looking for characters, voice, structure.  This week, I read three books that all contain that rare ability to take the reader’s breath away, giving the writer glimpses of how to do the same.
Amy Bloom is a new discovery [...]

Posted 30 May 2010 † V. § ‡ Comments (16) ° Also tagged:

Rebecca Steinitz on This Lovely Life and books in general

I have had the great pleasure of knowing Rebecca Steinitz for a while now, although we have yet to have the even greater pleasure of meeting in person, despite a flurry of text messages last winter in NYC that nearly had us getting together on the Upper West Side, somewhere near Gray’s Papaya I do [...]

Posted 05 October 2009 † V. § ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged:

Far from the desk and the nosy gooseneck lamp

On Friday, I will receive the copyedited manuscript of my book.  Like Leslie, there is a bit of apprehension as I enter this phase, the worries that all my grammatical tics will reveal themselves on the page in such a way as to promote a stunning sense of defeat.  However, this is also the first [...]

Posted 18 November 2008 † V. § ‡ Comments (21) ° Also tagged: