Victoria Nelson’s “On Writer’s Block” covers the entire territory of writing process, not just the silences inherent in that process.
It’s filled with marvelous quotations and wonderful tips. One I loved was: write your own review before the critics to so you’ll have something solid to lean against.
This book belongs in every writer’s bedside library.
My Man in Pakistan, Ernest Dempsey (aka Karim Khan)—a Man of Letters who is an author, editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer—responded to May Garsson’s challenge to write a poem in the experimental Tuanortsa form. Ernest Dempsey is a moving force with World Audience. He is President of World Audience, a publishing consortium, and editor-in-chief…
Judy and I have known each other since the early 1990s when I became a student of Sogyal Rinpoche’s and started meeting her at the Rigpa Shrine Room in Berkeley, California. The shrine room moved to San Francisco, so the Berkeley Shrine Room is no more…except vividly in my memory. However, my friendship with the…
Angels Unaware, by Priscilla A. Maine takes its title from the Hebrews Biblical text 12:2. “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” The themes in Maine’s book serve this homily well, as her characters learn what it means to untangle old hates and prejudices in order to extend their…
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell, available in both audiocasette and book format. Hours of juicy listening to a story of epic proportions following the effects through three generations of the sins of the mothers, fathers, and society before them. Sometimes banal, but more often engrossing, What You Owe Me gives us a…
My niece Janean Baird is a tigress reader in Illinois. She writes today about the summer reading program at their library. –JGR _____________________ I’m participating in the Adult’s Reading Kid’s Stuff at the library again. I love that I can get prizes for reading this summer too! Also, with children’s literature I can read it…
Earlier this year Nigerian poet Obi Nwakanma filled my Gathering Room with talk that made the world right for the hours he shared himself and conversation. We exchanged poetry books at the end of our time together. I sent some of Daniel’s hardworking roses home for Obi’s wife. In the days that followed our encounter,…