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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: Close Encounters with Famous Authors: John Irving (1978)
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012. Close Encounters with Famous Authors: John Irving (1978). In recent years, the Boston Ritz-Carlton has been sold and reborn on a new site across town. But in those days, the hotel was located in an elegant building on the corner of Arlington and Newbury Streets, across from the Public Garden. The place was run in a stuffy, old-world style with its own formal dress code. In Looking for Rachel Wallace. As we entered the restaurant, the Ritz ma. But the parlor turned out to be a h...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: More on Writers' Practices
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Thursday, September 13, 2012. More on Writers' Practices. This post is a follow-up to my earlier post of June 24 on writers’ work habits. After the Second World War, John Cheever, who was to become one of the country’s great short story writers, moved with his family to an apartment building at 400 East 59th Street, near Sutton Place, Manhattan. Thomas Wolfe wrote his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel,. From the Associated Press, June 18, 2012. 8220;Heller’s Writing Tools Showcased”. 8220;You are right,&...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: August 2012
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Friday, August 24, 2012. Close Encounters with Famous Authors: J. K. Rowling (1999). In 1999, J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, came to our small town for a book signing, and the event was as much like a normal book signing as, say, a hot dog eating contest or a prison riot. Posted by Frederick Weisel. Friday, August 17, 2012. Readers have long admired the first sentences of novels. But what about the last lines? Most readers remember the first line of Moby Dick. Are last lines important?
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: Writing Fast
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Sunday, July 22, 2012. 8220;I write fast because I have not the brains to write slow.”. His name was Georges Simenon. He’s best known for two things. He wrote a series of 75 Inspector Maigret novels featuring Paris police superintendent Jules Maigret. And he wrote each his novels very quickly: usually in about a week and a half. In a recent article in the New Yorker. Henry Anatole Grunwald, in a Life Magazine. Article in 1958, wrote that Simenon made a sketch of each novel’s outline at the start...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: Close Encounters with Famous Authors: J. K. Rowling (1999)
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Friday, August 24, 2012. Close Encounters with Famous Authors: J. K. Rowling (1999). In 1999, J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, came to our small town for a book signing, and the event was as much like a normal book signing as, say, a hot dog eating contest or a prison riot. The air in the gym that day was alive with excitement and a little tension. We were going to see J.K. ROWLING! Who was going to sign MY BOOK! Speculation was in high gear. Was it going to be the oafish Hagrid? Each po...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: July 2012
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Sunday, July 22, 2012. 8220;I write fast because I have not the brains to write slow.”. His name was Georges Simenon. He’s best known for two things. He wrote a series of 75 Inspector Maigret novels featuring Paris police superintendent Jules Maigret. And he wrote each his novels very quickly: usually in about a week and a half. In a recent article in the New Yorker. Posted by Frederick Weisel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I’m now working on my second novel, another mystery entitled Elise. Frederick Weise...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: June 2012
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Sunday, June 24, 2012. What Writers Look Like When They Write. Whenever an author does a public reading and invites the audience to ask questions, one question is nearly always posed: “When you write, do you use a computer or write in longhand? The great Michael Ondaatje uses Muji brand notebooks. Ian McEwan composes on the computer but tries out sentences in longhand. J.K. Rowling writes in longhand and then edits as she types the text into a computer, and if you care, uses black, not bl...This blog is ...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: John Irving Redux
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Several weeks ago, when I posted my blog story about meeting John Irving, my wife thought that Mr. Irving himself might enjoy story, and she suggested that I send him a copy. So I mailed a hard copy with a two-sentence cover letter to his agent in Vermont, and never expected a reply. Last week, I received the following letter:. Posted by Frederick Weisel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I’m now working on my second novel, another mystery entitled Elise. Close Encounters wi...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: Close Encounters with Famous Authors: John Updike (1973)
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Close Encounters with Famous Authors: John Updike (1973). It happened at a now long-forgotten little bookstore on an out-of-the-way side street, in Cambridge Massachusetts, a few hundred yards from the gates of Harvard University. And describes the blue hour of a Paris evening this way: “They were closing the iron grill in front of Brentano's Bookstore, and people were already at dinner behind the trim little bourgeois hedge of Duval's.”. It was a surprise, therefore, when in...
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What we talk about when we talk about writing.: Salman Rushdie
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. I saw Salman Rushdie in a public appearance in Marin last week. He’s just published an account of his 12-1/2 years in hiding, following the condemnation of his novel, The Satanic Verses. In 1989 by Muslim extremists and a death sentence handed down by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The new book is called Joseph Anton. Here are some highlights:. I never thought of myself as a religious writer…. I never thought of The Satanic Verses. Scotland Yard rated the threat level against me as L...
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