Blog Index by Date
March 2010
4 POSTS
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's 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 Index by Category
Writing
33 POSTS
The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton | Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments | Last Words | The Anxiety of Finishing | The Importance of Shipping | The Value of Failing | How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat | Dickens vs. the Snarks | More Writing
Writers
24 POSTS
A Lesson from Dickens | Dickens and the Blacking Factory | Dickens and Me | How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat | John Irving: “A need to be alone” | Maugham: “great suspicion of posterity” | Cormac McCarthy: “My Perfect Day” | Financial Lives of the Poets | More Writers
Publishing
18 POSTS
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 | “Immersive text-only experiences” | Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future | More Publishing
Creative Process
17 POSTS
Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments | The Anxiety of Finishing | The Importance of Shipping | The Value of Failing | “Productivity Stems From Passion” | Vermeer | A cabin made of hours | 1,000 Words a Day | More Creative Process
Boston
14 POSTS
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 | Inside “The Strangler”: The New Boston, 1963 | Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall | Ten Views of the Combat Zone | More Boston
My Books
14 POSTS
Done! | The Perils of Advertising | Last Words | A friendly reviewer, at last | A Favorite Review | A “Strangler” Word Cloud | Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob | Biocriminology | More My Books
Books
13 POSTS
Drawing Moby-Dick | Put down your Kindle and watch this | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is … Pippi Longstocking? | Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future | This is your brain on e-books | Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” Tiles | “City of Thieves” | Throwaway novels | More Books
Internet
12 POSTS
Google’s Buzzbomb | Stock and Flow | Dickens vs. the Snarks | Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future | A cabin made of hours | Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement | “Free” and the Future of Publishing | E-Books and Distracted Reading | More Internet
Productivity
12 POSTS
Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments | Stock and Flow | The Importance of Shipping | “Productivity Stems From Passion” | A cabin made of hours | 1,000 Words a Day | Edmund Wilson Regrets… | Makers vs. Managers | More Productivity
Odds & Ends
10 POSTS
Explaining Insomnia | There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library | Bill Gates on Energy | The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton | Rest and Re-creation | Scrapbook | A few links | Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted” | More Odds & Ends
Poetry
8 POSTS
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” | Wallace Stevens: “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” | Philip Larkin: “This Is the First Thing” | More Poetry
Photography
6 POSTS
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 | Barbara Mensch’s photographs of Fulton Fish Market | Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York | More Photography
Crime
5 POSTS
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
Blogging
5 POSTS
Stock and Flow | Dickens vs. the Snarks | Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog | When Every Writer Is a Publisher | The Way We Write Now: Novelists and Their Blogs | More Blogging
Book Reviews
5 POSTS
“Little Dorrit”: Dickens’s 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
4 POSTS
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
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
Art
3 POSTS
As if they had been around all along | Vermeer | Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting | More Art
Sports
1 POSTS
The Science of Home-Field Advantage | More Sports
WilliamLanday.com
1 POSTS
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