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John Cleese on “Creating an oasis or ‘tortoise’ enclosure”
One key to being more creative, says John Cleese, is to avoid interruption. This is very important, yet increasingly difficult. So the question, then, is how to become more creative in a… more →
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How Rilla Askew Became a Writer
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wrote 4 months ago: I knew dozens and dozens of actors, a few playwrights, but nobody who wrote fiction. “What do you th … more →
Get Off of My Cloud
wrote 7 months ago: Mick Jagger by Philip Norman (Ecco Press, $34.99, 622 pages) A supreme achiever to whom his colossal … more →
Coming Up Next...
wrote 7 months ago: A review of Mick Jagger by Philip Norman. … more →
Ben Fountain's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
wrote 11 months ago: How to Talk to Soldiers is a book to be written. It doesn’t have to be long, just a cursory ha … more →
Just kids - $245
wrote 1 year ago: It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounte … more →
Ecco to reissue two volumes of Nobel winner Tranströmer's poetry
wrote 1 year ago: October 07, 2011 By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY Nothing like the Nobel Prize for Literature to boast … more →
#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer
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wrote 1 year ago: #AuthorFail is a new column at BigOther. For the details on how to submit, check here. The column lo … more →
Someone's been messing with Bukowski's poetry
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wrote 2 years ago: There’s been discussion on the Charles Bukowski Forum about extensive editorial changes made t … more →
Book Review: Burning Bright: Stories by Ron Rash
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wrote 2 years ago: Burning Bright: Storiesby Ron Rash9780061804120, Ecco Press (HarperCollins), $12.99 Though I had eve … more →
March Book Events
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wrote 2 years ago: I’ve just decided on a new New Year’s resolution (yes, I know it’s March). Inspire … more →
Vast Lyric: Kurt Brown on Campbell McGrath's Shannon
wrote 2 years ago: Shannon, Campbell McGrath, Ecco Press, 2009 Campbell McGrath’s new book-length poem, Shannon: A Poem … more →
John Cleese on “Creating an oasis or ‘tortoise’ enclosure"
wrote 2 years ago: One key to being more creative, says John Cleese, is to avoid interruption. This is ve … more →
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: A book review by Bob Morris
wrote 2 years ago: Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less Guy Claxton Ecco Press (19 … more →
John Cleese: Busyness Is the Enemy of Creativity
wrote 2 years ago: John Cleese Few would argue that actor John Cleese isn’t a funny fellow and also a ver … more →
Thanks to Truss, I have all the Chekhov I need
wrote 3 years ago: The new Chekhov display under the info desk in the Blue Room at Powell’s City of Books is dang … more →
I Would Like To Describe by Zbigniew Herbert
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wrote 3 years ago: As always, my morning trawl through the papers sent me to my book case looking for the real news. Th … more →
Naomi Wolf to Write History of the Vagina
wrote 3 years ago: Naomi Wolf is going back to her roots. The journalist and author, who has seemingly been on a break … more →
The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones Writing Book on Michael Jackson
wrote 3 years ago: Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic for The New Yorker, got his first email from a publisher about d … more →
Ambition Run Amok: Mary Akers on Ron Rash's Serena
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wrote 4 years ago: Serena, Ron Rash, Ecco In the opening scene of Ron Rash’s excellent new novel Serena, George Pembert … more →
