“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious, that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But
READ MOREI posted earlier on the brilliant, beautiful novel The Goldfinch. I had to do so in broad swaths, given how dense in character and plot the novel is, just to give you a taste of
READ MOREIn her short book called The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick describes one of the most useful and important ideas about writing that I know: “Every work of literature has both a situation
READ MORE“…to be conscious of what the reader needs and only what he needs…” I first encountered this bit of writerly advice in 1984 in The Antioch Review, in a piece written by Nolan Miller,
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