These include: Faithful Are the Wounds (1955) about the Matthiessen-like character Edward Cavan, who takes his own life purportedly over his thwarted progressive political ideals; American Studies (1994) in which the first person narrator recounts his relationship with faculty advisor Tom Slater, a...
The first one is on the importance of close reading—and here the influence of Derrida, who transferred close reading from literature to philosophy and whose prestige has kept close reading present on the intellectual stage, is dramatically visible. The second one is on the meaning of the death...
Lancashire says email has the mysterious ability to get people who are usually scared by writing to get their thoughts flowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because of email’s close similarity to speech. “It’s like a circle of four or five people around a campfire,” ...
Imagine: There are no outside or public applications or nominations. The process for selection is so secretive and unknown that very few people (no one outside the Foundation, supposedly) even knows who the nominating and selection committees’ members ARE each year! In the Foundation’s favor,...
and paratexts--the apparatus which supports and surrounds a work's presentation to the world--in order to provide insight into the conflicting and overlapping interests of writers, publishers, and readers who are jointly invested in the ambiguity between the public and private personae of authors....
📅 Deadline:November 30, 2024(Expired) The Bath Novel Award The Bath Novel Awards Genres:Fiction, Novel, and Young Adult The Bath Novel Award is a £5,000 international prize for adult and YA manuscripts across various genres, aimed at unagented writers who are unpublished, self-published...
Think again. The obstacle course has just begun. Your credentials and manuscript are facing the gauntlet of THE PUB BOARD! The what? A group of chair-bound editors and professional types at the press who down or up their thumbs for the stack of proposals sitting in front of them; and ...
Such problems can hold up an entire project. An anthology is a collaboration among points of view, but the editor has the Master POV, the overall conception of the project, so Pachter also looks for authors who are willing to be edited, or, as Goffman put it, who will “work with me...
There are plenty of successful — and financially independent — writers who aren’t legends, but are pretty damn good. Become pretty damn good. 28. Do the Math Remind yourself: each time you sit down to write, you’re ahead of 99 percent of every other aspiring writer out there. Most ...
They are currently accepting submissions from authors who want to write a guest post for them over the holidays. They will need things from you like: 1) a prize to give to one of the people who comments on your post. Previous participants have chosen prizes like a free ebook or print co...