March 4, 2008 Armies of the night, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and/or On the Campaign Trail '72 are all enduring books, capturing the 1960's period from ground level, with insigh
January 11, 2008 A valuable text in both the reporting, the remembrance, and the healing of the experience of war. Vietnam was weird because over the years troops were cycled in and out.
January 11, 2008 The works of Eddie Muller, including his organization of the Noir Film Festivals, are indispensable to the genre. Few equal his knowledge of the subject, and fewer, if any, surpass it.
Lest we forget, publishing is a business, and, as in many businesses, the product doesn't necessarily come first. Maxwell Perkins and Malcom Crowley are long gone.
A good metaphor. Writing can certainly be compared to tunneling. But a writer - one as accomplished as Tobias Wolff - generally is wise enough to bring the proper tools along with him.
Bukowski was gifted - or lucky - in a limited way. He possessed the gift of gab, but reading his work I often feel as though as I'm reading the same piece over and over again.
Your story reminds me of an interview I read with John Fogerty. Credence Clearwater played at Woodstock, but at around four in the morning or thereabouts.
Sound advice from Ernest Hemingway: stop writing each day at a point where you know what's going to happen next.
Often, it would seem, that blocks are from just writing in the wrong direction or gett
Not unlike an isolation tank. Just one and his senses - if he has any. Caving would seem to be a an exciting and valuable sport. Climbing in to the dark, or as Allen Ginsberg put, back into the womb.
