For Lionel Trilling, his widow points out, seriousness, not happiness, was the goal worthy of an intellectual life. This week I’m reading from David Lehman’s The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, from which the above is excerpted.
Read more →Two-thirds of the way through a first revision of a 60,000 word novel is a good moment to consider what the next next step will be.
Read more →Welcome to my first random act of occasional curating, where I use my blog to share those things that risk never being found again, by me (if I simply bookmark them). These are some of the links I find the time for, especially when work risks turning upside-down my usual smile, gleefully
Read more →Hello and happy new year to all. May 2012 be one of health, happiness, and the making of your dreams come true. Instead of affirming a resolution, a word that brings to mind lawyers, politicians, and all that is devoid of charm and imagination, I have decided to make a promise, to myself.
Read more →Here’s a synopsis of my novel-in-progress, the third I’ve written and the first for publication, expected this summer. Although I’m halfway through the second draft, there is a chance I’ll revise this synopsis, for the millionth time. Make-Believe : A Novel by A.J.Duric
Read more →A “Dear Writer,” note arrived all the way from Iowa City three days before Christmas. My first real rejection from a literary journal. I think I’m going to frame it, because notes can be framed, and feelings like the brief, hot flash of rejection thankfully can’t.
Read more →I recently enjoyed an essay published online in Australian literary journal Overland, Sympathy for the devil?: Caroline Hamilton on small presses and free markets. She illustrates well a middle ground between commerce and community
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