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Last time I was chatting about the cool things on the pages before the staple in Mslexia, but there’s a lot to love on the other side of the staple as well. In fact, the reader in me loves the second half of the magazine best because that’s where you find the book reviews. These primarily [...] In my mailbox today, the most recent issue of Mslexia, the July/August/September issue. And, just as it bridges the summer months and September, I find myself maybe-perhaps-possibly-potentially thinking about ambling-meandering-sprawling-strolling back to more serious work habits. And, so, I’ll feature it here, rather than the more light-hearted resources I’ve been considering [...] Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Re-visiting Le Guin’s Steering the Craft inspired me to re-read some of her essays in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. The collection, as [...] Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew Beyond the reverent-but-not-too-reverent tone of Le Guin’s Steering the Craft, something else that sets this volume apart is the combination of specific advice and the suggestions offered for wider reflection on the [...] Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew Unlike last month’s resource, The Writer’s Notebook from Tin House, a relatively new acquisition, Le Guin’s book has been on my shelves for several years. It comes from Eighth Mountain Press (in [...] The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House Anna Keesey’s “Making a Scene: Fiction’s Fundamental Unit” Keesey credits Seymour Chatman, Mieke Bal and H. Porter Abbot as the narrative theorists who have contributed the concepts on which her essay is based, in terms of providing the terms and distinctions between the terms ’story’ and [...] The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House Dorothy Allison’s “Place” I discovered Dorothy Allison’s fiction through browsing in a women’s bookstore in London, Ontario: my introduction was her book of essays Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (1995). Reading “Place” reminded me that I should return to that collection and to Skin: [...] The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House I grabbed this up at Type Books, one of my favourite local bookshops, partly because I think “Tin House” is terrific, and partly because my writing shelves have been hankering for someone new in town, someone to start the flow of gossip afresh. The collection has [...] |
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