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		<title>A Room of One&#8217;s Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The ideal view for daily writing,
hour on hour, is the blank brick wall of a
 cold storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch
of sky will do, cloudless if possible.”
Edna Ferber
Writing should be the ultimately portable activity. The stereotype of the author, reinforced by numerous advertisements for writing courses, is of the creative spirit freed from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Keeping Quiet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I  started on the somewhat daunting task of reading The Autobiography of Mark Twain. This work has been assembled over many years by the Mark Twain Project, and is not so much an autobiography as a cleverly edited collection of notes and fragments that Mr. Clemens left behind when he died in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions for Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of writers all over the world will be making their New Year’s resolutions right now or (if you read this any time after January 7) contemplating the futility of their good intentions.
It’s not just writers of course, but everybody. But in my very personal experience writers tend to have a limited repertoire of resolutions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an essayist may have been fashionable in the eighteenth century, but today it feels like the literary equivalent of playing the lute or weaving on the hand loom – an archaic pastime for nostalgic dilettantes. The action is elsewhere, in fiction. So why not write fiction?
Believe me I’ve tried, starting when I was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers as Speakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I do any kind of public speaking I’m struck by the difference between the words that we write and the words that we say. I first learned this almost forty years ago when I first began teaching, but it still comes as a surprise. Things that are easy to write may be difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Thought that Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a book worth reading – Except When I Write by Arthur Krystal. He is a well-known essayist and critic (New Yorker, Harpers, etc.) and has collected together twelve of his best essays and critical reviews from 2005 to 2009.
The first essay alone is worth the price – “When Writers Speak.” In it Krystal offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Walden Pond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great writers, once they are safely dead, become celebrities by default, no matter how ignored they were in their lifetimes. And because celebrities are the gods of our age, we feel an obscure impulse to pay homage at the shrines they made famous.
These literary pilgrimages, to Shakespeare&#8217;s Stratford-on-Avon, or Jane Austen&#8217;s City of Bath for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misinterpretation of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams
are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
At a dinner party I was seated next to a charming lady who had a professional interest in fantasies and fairy stories. This intrigued me at once because I really admire authors who can conjure up fantastic worlds, stories, and characters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Essay in the Entire History of the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had thought that truth in advertising was a lost cause. But I was walking on Fifth Avenue when I saw a beggar sitting on the sidewalk holding a sign that said, &#8220;Need Money for Drink.&#8221; This was such a refreshing change that I gave him a dollar, and almost went back later to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Quentin la Poterie
France
Summer is indeed the worst possible time for writing, especially when the sun shines and the local wine is good.  Everything conspires towards relaxation and mental torpor.
Self-motivation is always hard, unless there is a prospect of big rewards. Most of us who are writers, I suspect, are driven to work by [...]]]></description>
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