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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair… “Sunday Morning,” by Wallace Stevens David Foster Wallace’s Advice to College Graduates If you read or watch nothing else in this week’s list of links, devote ten minutes to this 2005 speech given by David Foster Wallace to Kenyon College graduates: Carl …
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“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.” ~ Leo Tolstoy Everyone is talking about the prolonged winter weather. On this second day after the vernal equinox, with spring break and baseball’s opening day only days away, we …
Dead as a doornail. We’ve all heard the cliche, but what does reading it do to your brain? According to some neuroscience research, not much. In the AWP 2013 session “This Is Your Brain on Fiction,” Susan Hubbard discussed the 2012 New York Times article, “Your Brain on Fiction,” which references several recent studies of …
[Note: Over the next few weeks, I will be moving some posts here that I had previously published on my first blog, Everyday Intensity. This updated piece was originally published Oct. 24, 2011.] Do you ever struggle with existential questions and concerns? Do these questions affect your writing? And just what are existential questions, anyway? …