writing

177 posts

  1. The fifth issue of Ahhhhh Mega-Zine is ready for your enjoyment
  2. Is it Art?, an essay on videogames
  3. Batter my heart
  4. "All language, at some level, is body language"
  5. Turtle, by Kay Ryan
  6. “How Did You Become a Poet?” “Reluctantly”
  7. The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, via Austin Kleon
  8. Poetry 180 is Billy Collins' poem-a-day selections for high schoolers
  9. The Collapse of This City's Community
  10. It All Ends
  11. HARPERCOLLINS TO PUBLISH COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS!
  12. The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
  13. Restatement of Romance
  14. The "thirteen ways" meme
  15. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  16. The Snow Man
  17. This Is Just to Say
  18. Stevens' grandeur is an inch away from absurdity, if not in the thick of it
  19. The Brave Man
  20. Bring on the Wallace Stevens
  21. Rob Giampietro is blogging via postcard this week
  22. PLEASE STOP MOWEING YOUR LAWN SO EARLY
  23. Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
  24. fictional Paris Review Interview with Constance Eakins
  25. Die Sonne (review: 4/5)
  26. Chuck Klosterman
  27. One of the more cringe-inducing uses of quotation marks
  28. Clyde Fans: Book One (review: 5/5)
  29. Lapham's Quarterly looks like a worthy new periodical
  30. Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
  31. Phillip Larkin in the Paris Review
  32. An excellent essay on John Updike and the work of book reviewing
  33. Liz Danzico analyzes the closing phrases we use in e-mail
  34. article about The Wire
  35. Making Memes
  36. Errol Morris' long, three-part investigation of a Roger Fenton photograph
  37. Passive-aggressive notes
  38. Theatre directors don't review plays
  39. I like Twain in small doses
  40. Rands tested some pens to try to find that perfect feel
  41. National Novel Writing Month starts in less than two weeks
  42. A poem lamenting (and embodying) the quirks of English pronunciation
  43. essay on tragedy, comedy, and the modern novel
  44. The use of the hyphen is on the decline
  45. How to write about Africa
  46. Wikipedia essays
  47. The Devil in the White City (review: dnf)
  48. Virginia Quarterly Review
  49. Flannery O'Connor's androgynous prayer
  50. The letters of Flannery O'Connor and Betty Hester
  51. H.L. Mencken on Why He Never Lectures
  52. We've got a new batch of MacArthur Fellows
  53. The:- emoticon is now 25 years old
  54. etymology drawings
  55. I wish I was going to VizThink '08
  56. William Carlos Williams
  57. Constrained writing
  58. Fibonacci skit
  59. Jason Kottke has come back to work
  60. I love writing letters
  61. Matthew Stibbe suggested some writer's reference sites
  62. G. K. Chesterton
  63. interview with expert calligrapher Bernard Maisner
  64. In Believer Magazine
  65. Kurt Vonnegut on where the writers are:
  66. A brief little comedy routine about how not to use Powerpoint
  67. A very cool bit of wisdom from Hugh MacLeod
  68. David Lewis bemoans the comics memoir
  69. Billy Collins
  70. The New York Times has a new tower to work in
  71. Steven Pinker writes in defense of dangerous ideas
  72. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I (review: 4.5/5)
  73. If I Vanished
  74. taxonomy of logical fallacies
  75. Spook Country
  76. Paris Review Interviews, Volume I
  77. Jane Austen enthusiast ripped a few chapters from her books
  78. Whither our literary arbiters?
  79. choose-your-own-adventure story artfully stenciled on the sidewalks
  80. five sentences or less
  81. An interview with Chris Ware
  82. A long, excellent interview with Steven Johnson
  83. The Oregonian newspaper is publishing its daily photos on Flickr
  84. An interview with Scott McCloud
  85. Writers need editors: They remind you that your writing is not fragile
  86. Doc Searls talks about how to save newspapers
  87. full set of scans from the book on Flickr
  88. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
  89. Detour Exhibition
  90. There's a fairly good profile of Edward Tufte in the current Stanford Magazine
  91. Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void wrote a manifesto on creativity over at ChangeThis
  92. twenty basic plots
  93. From an excellent New Yorker article on the history of dueling
  94. Tom Swifty is a kind of wordplay
  95. The California Milk Processor Board collects the top 100 rip-offs of their Got
  96. When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It (review: 3.5/5)
  97. Scans of some absurdly complicated musical scores
  98. Damn, Heather Armstrong is a great writer
  99. Gawker analyzes why your New York Times Magazine always falls apart
  100. movies that chop up and mix the chronology
  101. The Cliché Rotation Project
  102. talks about storytelling in 4 short films
  103. I like the Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
  104. Austin Kleon
  105. emptiness and his collection of empty sheets of paper
  106. interesting critique of Marxist literary criticism
  107. What I've Learned by Reviewing Books
  108. In The Little Book of Plagiarism, Richard Posner excerpted T.S
  109. The Little Book of Plagiarism (review: 3.5/5)
  110. rare books on calligraphy, penmanship, and pen art
  111. Continental Divide Trail thru-hike
  112. Signal v. Noise pointed to a couple cool things the other day
  113. An interview with Cory Doctorow, digesting his new book
  114. The Ecstasy of Influence, a new essay in Harper's about plagiarism
  115. Graphic Novelists Interpret Poems from PoetryFoundation.org
  116. Bruce Schneier has written a long draft on the psychology of security
  117. Interview with comics genius Alan Moore on the BBC
  118. Umberto Eco's 1994 essay on the Future of the Book
  119. collection of electronic literature
  120. The New York Times has a good profile of comics writers Robert and Aline Crumb
  121. Cory Doctorow writes about giving away his books for free
  122. comics, games, and world-building
  123. Here's some clever comment spam, the bastards
  124. How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps
  125. they have to succeed as literature or art, not as not superheroes
  126. The iPhone Announcement Meta-Buzz
  127. silliest and most destructive debate in journalism
  128. Brian K. Vaughan on breaking into comics
  129. here's a periodic table of visualization methods
  130. An interview with Steven Johnson
  131. Malcolm Gladwell writes about mysteries
  132. They're doing this once a day--for a year
  133. The Wall Street Journal is shrinking their newspaper
  134. Wikipedia has a list of fictional books
  135. An interview with SNL writer Bryan Tucker
  136. Comics legend Stan Lee talks with NPR about superheroes
  137. I just learned about Open Culture yesterday
  138. Some Great Panels from the Little Nemo Comic Strips
  139. The next Fantastic Four movie will feature the Silver Surfer
  140. The graphic novel has been a’legitimate' art form for a while now
  141. A list of the Top Politically Incorrect Words for 2006
  142. Jodi Picoult Will Write Wonder Woman Comics
  143. Mick Crowley, who turns out to be a child rapist
  144. great New Yorker article about Thomas Paine
  145. New York Times article on our hapless Transportation Security Agency
  146. Chris Anderson on the Future of Wired and Media
  147. The Plain English Campaign has issued their annual awards for 2006
  148. WordCount: 86,800 English Words by Frequency
  149. The Rise of the "Automagical"
  150. Why music critics need to (re)read the work of Lester Bangs
  151. The Pulitzer Prize can now be awarded for online journalism
  152. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (review: 3.5/5)
  153. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
  154. Roger Federer is so completely amazing
  155. Typography Lessons
  156. Wired has a new piece about the recent lonelygirl15 video phenomenon
  157. New York Inquirer interviews Keith Gessen
  158. Wikipedia article on fictional expletives
  159. A cool slide show on the evolution of writing
  160. Making Comics (review: 4.5/5)
  161. Some interesting thoughts on blog readability
  162. Kottke revives and collects some previous research into one of the latest
  163. Thank you thank you
  164. Ordinary People (review: 4.5/5)
  165. An absolutely fantastic interview with Neil Gaiman over at Bookslut
  166. The Los Angeles Times is sending its investigators out to investigate itself
  167. writes about pop culture and the Long Zoom
  168. Beautiful Evidence (review: 4.5/5)
  169. join Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence
  170. Ditto this: Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff
  171. The Wisdom of Crowds (review: 4/5)
  172. An interview with the PC guy in those Apple commercials
  173. NaNoWriMo registration opens up soon, if not already
  174. A rather critical review of Burning Man 2006
  175. TMN recently finished up their series of briefs on metropolitan parks
  176. cartoon at the head of the article
  177. Now here is a great title for an essay