Blog Posts by Date
September 2010
2 POSTS
Tumblng | The High-Low Problem
August 2010
15 POSTS
Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers | Hemingway's standing desk | "Perfection Wasted" by John Updike | Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | Fitzgerald Repackaged | Hanging Up | Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D. | Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior | Richard Ford: "make something good" | FontFonter | Young Hemingway | Innovation and Risk | DeLillo: "The writer leads" | A Note from Barack Obama | The Sawyer Effect
July 2010
12 POSTS
A Writer on Monday Morning | Divers, East River, 1948 | Gorgeous Borges | Fitzgerald on creating characters | Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew at 18 | Starting Over | How James Bond Got His Name | Portrait: Henry James | Losing LeBron | Flaubert on Life and Work | Circadian Novels | R.I.P. Inkwell Bookstore
June 2010
13 POSTS
Man Out of Time: "The Disenchanted" by Budd Schulberg | West End Memories (continued) | Work, work, work | A Face Behind the Page | West End Memories | The MFA Generation | Browning: "a few I value more" | You never completely relax again | Writers Unplugged | Inventing Laurie Barber | The Way We Virtually Live Now | A Hangman's Metaphysics | The Pleasures of Imagination
May 2010
8 POSTS
"Matterhorn" | Bloggiversary | Writing Like It’s 1999 | The Murder Gene | The Mystery Writer's Dilemma | "I have lived alone in the woods" | A Male Jodi Picoult | New Money
April 2010
15 POSTS
The Price of Procrastination | Not-So-Random House | Sven Birkerts: "the Internet and the novel are opposites" | Portrait: Philip Roth | Novels like letters | How Writers Write: Ian McEwan | Tweet of the Day | Only Disconnect | Flickr Find of the Day | Writing Is Play | Nexted | The Burry Principle | Is an ebook still a book? | Can a writer quit? | Will e-novels be shorter?
March 2010
13 POSTS
Dr. Johnson: Libraries and "the vanity of human hopes" | The Writer-in-Chief | Dickens' Outlines | An Interview | "Wolf Hall" | Baseball's Yankee Problem | The issue is inequality, not total wealth | Hilary Mantel: "locked in competition with myself" | A Facelift | Done! | Life Magazine Photos of Boston's Strangler Days | Explaining Insomnia | Google's Buzzbomb
February 2010
11 POSTS
How to design a book advertisement | There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library | Bill Gates on Energy | Photographs of the Combat Zone | The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton | Henry Miller's Eleven Commandments | A Lesson from Dickens | The Perils of Advertising | Last Words | Stock and Flow | The Street Photography of Jules Aarons
January 2010
7 POSTS
The Anxiety of Finishing | The Importance of Shipping | "Little Dorrit": Dickens' Teeming World | Adrienne Rich: "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" | The Value of Failing | Dickens and the Blacking Factory | Rest and Re-creation
December 2009
13 POSTS
Dickens and Me | A friendly reviewer, at last | Drawing Moby-Dick | How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat | The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars | "Your Whole Reading Life, Always With You" | Dickens vs. the Snarks | Publishing Agonistes | John Irving: "A need to be alone" | Maugham: "great suspicion of posterity" | "Tamburlaine Must Die" | Lukewarm Kindling | Put down your Kindle and watch this
November 2009
9 POSTS
As if they had been around all along | Title Trouble | "This Is Where I Leave You" | Cormac McCarthy: "My Perfect Day" | F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Swimming under water" | Ted Kooser: "Daddy Longlegs" | "Productivity Stems From Passion" | Book 3 Update: The Final Push | Walt Whitman for Levi's
October 2009
15 POSTS
Financial Lives of the Poets | "Immersive text-only experiences" | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is ... Pippi Longstocking? | Philip Roth on the novel's "cultic" future | Michael Penn's photographs of Philadelphia | A Favorite Review | Scrapbook | A "Strangler" Word Cloud | This is your brain on e-books | Cory Doctorow's "Makers" Tiles | "City of Thieves" | How to Make a Movie About a Writer | Inside "The Strangler": Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob | Updated Books Section | Vermeer
September 2009
15 POSTS
August 2009
15 POSTS
July 2009
9 POSTS
June 2009
16 POSTS
May 2009
6 POSTS
Blog Posts by Category
Writing
56 POSTS
Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers | Richard Ford: “make something good” | DeLillo: “The writer leads” | The Sawyer Effect | A Writer on Monday Morning | Fitzgerald on creating characters | Starting Over | How James Bond Got His Name | More Writing
Writers
37 POSTS
Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers | Hemingway’s standing desk | Young Hemingway | How James Bond Got His Name | Portrait: Henry James | Browning: “a few I value more” | Writers Unplugged | “I have lived alone in the woods” | More Writers
Books
33 POSTS
The High-Low Problem | Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | Fitzgerald Repackaged | DeLillo: “The writer leads” | A Note from Barack Obama | Gorgeous Borges | How James Bond Got His Name | Circadian Novels | More Books
Creative Process
22 POSTS
Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers | Innovation and Risk | A Writer on Monday Morning | Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Knew at 18 | Starting Over | Dickens’ Outlines | Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments | The Anxiety of Finishing | More Creative Process
Internet
21 POSTS
Tumblng | Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | FontFonter | Writers Unplugged | The Way We Virtually Live Now | Writing Like It’s 1999 | Only Disconnect | Nexted | More Internet
Publishing
19 POSTS
Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | Not-So-Random House | How to design a book advertisement | The Perils of Advertising | The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars | “Your Whole Reading Life, Always With You” | Publishing Agonistes | Lukewarm Kindling | More Publishing
My Books
18 POSTS
Starting Over | Inventing Laurie Barber | The Murder Gene | A Male Jodi Picoult | Done! | The Perils of Advertising | Last Words | A friendly reviewer, at last | More My Books
Boston
17 POSTS
West End Memories (continued) | West End Memories | “I have lived alone in the woods” | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library | Photographs of the Combat Zone | The Street Photography of Jules Aarons | Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob | More Boston
Productivity
16 POSTS
The Sawyer Effect | Writers Unplugged | Writing Like It’s 1999 | The Price of Procrastination | Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments | Stock and Flow | The Importance of Shipping | “Productivity Stems From Passion” | More Productivity
Odds & Ends
14 POSTS
Hanging Up | New Money | The Burry Principle | The issue is inequality, not total wealth | Explaining Insomnia | There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library | Bill Gates on Energy | The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton | More Odds & Ends
Poetry
10 POSTS
“Perfection Wasted” by John Updike | Browning: “a few I value more” | Adrienne Rich: “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” | Ted Kooser: “Daddy Longlegs” | Walt Whitman for Levi’s | How to Make a Movie About a Writer | Eavan Boland: “Quarantine” | George Herbert: “Church Monuments” | More Poetry
Photography
10 POSTS
Divers, East River, 1948 | Portrait: Henry James | Portrait: Philip Roth | Flickr Find of the Day | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | Photographs of the Combat Zone | The Street Photography of Jules Aarons | Michael Penn’s photographs of Philadelphia | More Photography
Blogging
9 POSTS
Tumblng | Work, work, work | Bloggiversary | A Facelift | Stock and Flow | Dickens vs. the Snarks | Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog | When Every Writer Is a Publisher | More Blogging
Crime
8 POSTS
A Hangman’s Metaphysics | The Murder Gene | The issue is inequality, not total wealth | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob | Biocriminology | Why the Strangler? | The Economics of Dealing Crack | More Crime
Book Reviews
8 POSTS
Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg | “Matterhorn” | “Wolf Hall” | “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World | “Tamburlaine Must Die” | “This Is Where I Leave You” | The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” | “The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon | More Book Reviews
Movies
6 POSTS
The High-Low Problem | Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior | As if they had been around all along | How to Make a Movie About a Writer | Best Boston Movie Ever: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” | “The Commitments” | More Movies
Art
6 POSTS
The High-Low Problem | Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior | The Pleasures of Imagination | As if they had been around all along | Vermeer | Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting | More Art
Sports
4 POSTS
Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D. | Losing LeBron | Baseball’s Yankee Problem | The Science of Home-Field Advantage | More Sports
My Other Writing
3 POSTS
Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall | Ten Views of the Combat Zone | The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” | More My Other Writing
