Mindfulness and Rainer Maria Rilke
Often cited as self-help before the genre existed, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet contain much wisdom in few pages.
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Kissing Walt Whitman
I saw all the things we consider “Whitmanesque”: the energy, the exuberance, the empathy. And one thing that my mother’s serene portrait had not prepared me for—the eroticism.
Review: THE DEATHS OF HENRY KING by Jesse Ball, Brian Evenson, and Lili Carré
In The Deaths of Henry King, the titular Henry King dies no less than eighty-nine times.
Indies Elsewhere: Eterna Cadencia
For more than ten years, Eterna Cadencia—a bookstore and publishing house in Buenos Aires—has set a high bar for independent publishing across the continent and serves as proof that independent publishing can be interesting and profitable.
Orison Books and the Literature of the Spirit
Orison Books, founded and edited by Luke Hankins, is a nonprofit literary press whose mission explicitly states its desire to publish books that focus on the life of the spirit.
Making a Masterpiece: What Writers Can Learn from Iconic Imagery in Visual Art
You can learn about writing by studying the masterpieces in art because every masterpiece, whether it’s a piece of music or literature or visual art, has essentially the same ingredients.
Alias Grace and the Revision of Female Experience
In writer and producer Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood’s meticulous narrative becomes a brutal, hushed study in the effects of subjugation. How does a woman protect her personal truth from those so determined to rewrite it?
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Inclusive Writing?
These are the facts: French is a highly gendered language. Every noun is gendered, and all adjectives follow an agreement rule regarding number and gender.
Fiction Responding to Fiction: D.H. Lawrence and Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver insisted that his iconic masterpiece “Cathedral” was not based on a lesser-known D.H. Lawrence story entitled “The Blind Man,” and that he had not read the story prior to writing “Cathedral.”