Born in San Francisco, Sarah Stone has waited tables in an all-night diner; worked in the office of a haunted nudist camp and bodywork school in the Santa Cruz mountains; written for and taught/performed on "Live Action English" for Korean public television in Seoul; and, in Bujumbura, ...
Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, Jorge Luis Borges, A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Anne Carson, Angela Carter, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Delbanco, George Eliot, Penelope Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Margot Livesey, Iris Murdoch, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Ron Nyren, Grace Paley, Eileen Pollack, Manuel Puig, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Joan Silber, Muriel Spark, Tom Stoppard, Leo Tolstoy, Rebecca West, John Edgar Wideman, Virginia Woolf, Mary Zimmerman
One of my favorite parties of the year is always LitCrawl -- how fabulous to be a writer and reader in a community of writers and readers! LitCrawl, Phase 2: Saturday, Oct. 17 , Phase 2: 7:15-8:15 pmHer Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper, 3520 20thEast-Meets-West “Be”-In: Faculty & Friends of the Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry MFA Program at the California Institute of Integral ...
Today all I want to do is to include a link to a brilliant story, "Aesthetic Discipline," by Carolyn Cooke, a part of the series "Fifty-two Stories with Cal Morgan." I don't want to give away too much but will just let anyone coming across this inhabit the story directly. Here's the description from the site: Here is another brand-new story—this one from the acclaimed ...
We live in a noisy culture -- deliciously, horribly, overwhelmingly, fascinatingly noisy. The kind of work we do as writers and artists both arises from our lives and has to resist those circumstances, in order to happen at all. How is it possible to write poetry or fiction, to create a performance, to make a song, painting, sculpture, or collage? All day long, our email dings, our friends invite ...