Label: The New York Times
The Making of a Modern Love Essay
Publishing a Modern Love essay in the New York Times has launched many a literary career. The competition is fierce, even long established writers continually try and fail. And so it was thrilling when my friend Michelle Fiordaliso called to say that her essay had been chosen — and to run on Mother’s Day, no less. It was doubly thrilling for me, because I’d had the honor of working with her as she crafted the piece. As with any story … More
What Really Grabs Us When We Read
One of most revealing (and sometimes scary) things about brain science is how often it exposes the real reason we do something. You know, as opposed to the reason we’re absolutely positively sure we did it. Which translates to: we’re often very, very wrong. Just knowing that you might judge a stranger as either a warm or cold person, based solely on whether you’ve just held a cup of hot or iced coffee, sure can give you pause. The point … More
Writers, Beware Your Power: A Cautionary Tale
Writers are the most powerful people in the world. We can change the way people think simply by giving them a glimpse of life through our characters’ eyes. We can transport them to places they’ve never been, catapult them into situations they’ve only dreamed of, and reveal universal truths that just might alter their entire perception of reality. Although always not in the way we hope. Take Michelle Bachmann, for instance. To anyone who watched her rebuttal to the State … More
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“I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.” – John Updike
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