Sarah Stone's Blog

• Aesthetic Distance by Carolyn Cooke

  May 7, 2009

  • 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 ...
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• Finding Your Inner Compass

  March 16, 2009

  • 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 ...
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• Some favorite art/craft books for writers (and teachers of writing)

  November 12, 2008

  • This is a very short list -- it could easily be twice as long -- just a few of the books that my students and friends and I have found useful and illuminating. Some of the books on this list move into the territory of theory. A few of these are “career” books, though I include them with some trepidation and the desire to give advice (wait as long as possible before publishing the first time ...
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