June 12, 2009
Should Creative Writing Be Taught?
From The New Yorker, June 8, 2009, by Louis Mendand
The workshop is a process, an unscripted performance space, a regime for forcing people to do two things that are fundamentally contrary to human nature: actually write stuff (as opposed to planning to write stuff very, very soon), and then sit there [...]
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February 2, 2008
The hoary old adage is that publishing a book is like giving birth: It takes nine months.
Nowadays, we have electronic typesetting, high-speed presses, print-on-demand, and oceans of text gushing through fiberoptic pipes onto computer screens all over the planet.
So why does it still take so long to publish a dead-tree edition? [...]
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