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On "The Writer," the artist
September 7, 2024
Some beast in me feels to be waking up, or has perhaps awoken and is still groggy. In February I began looking for jobs, then jobs and work consumed me. Now...
Interpreting Le Guin on Voice, Sound, and "Serious Writing"
February 10, 2024
Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (New York: Mariner, 2015). Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft is...
The 13 Books I Read in January
February 3, 2024
I did not set out to read 13 books this month, and never before have I read 13 books in one month! I've organized them loosely into categories, but beyond...
My Favourite Books Read in 2023
December 30, 2023
Depending on whether I clean up two more in the next 48 hours, I will have read between 58 and 60 books in 2023. That's a pretty good number given that I...
Writing Goals for 2024: Develop a Practice
December 16, 2023
This time of year—at least, my experience of it—operates in a liminal space between future and past: a space that, bizarrely, wants little to do with the...
Welcome to Footnotes: On Craft, Writing, and the Language Arts
December 15, 2023
I always have a great deal of thoughts about what I’ve been reading, media, writing generally; but I also have a stubbornly enduring sense of alienation that...