"It’s fashionable now to object on principle to the idea that writing is hard. Writing isn’t hard, this camp says; working in coal mines is hard. Having a baby is hard. But this is a category error. Writing isn’t hard the way physical labor, or recovery from surgery, is hard; it’s hard the way math … Continue reading Success: Deserve Has Nothing to Do With It
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Write Until There Is Nothing Wrong With It
"The process of imbuing every sentence with "minimum elegance and euphony," [Amis] says in the clip above (drawn from a longer interview viewable here) involves "saying the sentence, subvocalizing it in your head until there's nothing wrong with it. This means not repeating in the same sentence suffixes and prefix. If you've got a confound, … Continue reading Write Until There Is Nothing Wrong With It
We’re at Peak Newsletter, and I Feel Fine | Vanity Fair
"'No one needs more shit to read,' wrote Erica Buist in a widely circulated Medium post entitled 'The Personal Newsletter Fad Needs to End,' citing Twitter, print magazines, and her nightstand book stack as competing entities. It’s true that my Pocket app, Chrome tabs, bookshelves, and feeds are all crammed with reading material. Yet somehow … Continue reading We’re at Peak Newsletter, and I Feel Fine | Vanity Fair
Who Cares About The Great American Novel?
"A question from the New York Times’ Bookends, “Where is the great American novel by a woman?,” got an interesting answer from the Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid... [Ursula's answer, in short:] But there’s something coy and coercive about the question itself that made me want to charge into the bullring, head down and horns forward. … Continue reading Who Cares About The Great American Novel?
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