Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
On Listening: Salvatore Scibona Tunes in to Detail
“I think for a writer you don’t see a thing until you use the word for it and the more precise the word you can use the more precisely you see it. On the other hand, the word is an instrument in order to lead you to the thing and you can spin a whole lot of words around yourself for years and years and years, as the jeweler does, until it gets to the point where your primary relationship is with the language and not with the thing.”
The Literary Horologist: Paul Harding “Tinkers” With Time
“… I don’t write the book in any order, I just literally wake up and wonder about whatever immediately strikes me as interesting. Usually I have a question about something: ‘What does she think at that point?’ Or, ‘What does he do?’ Or, ‘What does the cemetery look like in the autumn?’ And I just start writing.”
Bellevue Literary Press’s Erika Goldman
“BLP’s mission is to publish high quality fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and the sciences, with a special focus on medicine. Our books address the impact of illness on the body, consciousness, and all human experience.”
— Erika Goldman
The Alchemy of Composition: Jamie O’Neill’s Literary Magic
Posted: April 21, 2009
Tags: James Joyce, Eamon de Valera, 1916 Easter Rising, Oscar Wilde, Unionist
“When you’re writing you’re that bird on the wing, you’re soaring and you’re plummeting but you’re not telling the wings to do anything. When you’re describing afterwards what’s happened you’re applying logic to something that really is intuitive. You’re talking about ailerons and that sort of thing, like you’re moving an airplane rather than the eagle.”
A Study in Character: Dedra Johnson on the “Real” Voice in Fiction
Posted: March 7, 2009
Tags: Mary McLeod Bethune, Alice Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ford Maddox Ford, Margarita Karapanou
“I’ve always liked the idea of the unreliable narrator, or the multi-layered narrator, where you understand more than the narrator is telling you, and so I very intentionally did that with her. Sandrine being a child made it possible to do that.”
