2014

Caroline Goodwin: Wintergreen

In Charles Baxter’s book The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot, he claims that “Between staging and subtexts a bewildering relationship seems to exist. Writers must often use a staggering amount of surface bric-a-brac to suggest an indistinct presence underneath that surface. The stronger the presence of the unspoken and the unseen, the more gratuitous details

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Deb Vanasse: Is It Done Yet? How to Tell if Your Book is Ready to Market

Sculpture by Marcel Buhler, courtesy Cream Contemporary Scan advice from agents and editors, and you’ll find a common thread: too many writers send off their work before it’s ready. Reader reviews of self-published books echo this concern. But how do you know when a piece is as good as it’s going to get? This is

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Andromeda: Saved by the Tomato

For over ten years, like nearly every writer on the planet except for Jonathan Franzen (who jammed a screwdriver into his laptop to disable the wireless) I’ve been distracted by the internet–and just about everything else. My brain’s reaction to typing the period at the end of any promising sentence, or feeling the glimmer of

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