“Yosemite, Plan View, 2012” by Dan Holdsworth. More of Holdsworth’s amazing photos here.
Winter
Archives for 2014
“The extension of our sympathies”
The greatest benefit we owe the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing to life, it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
Book lust (a continuing series)
Concept design by Elizabeth Perez for Fahrenheit 451. “The book’s spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.” Very cool.
Angela Lee Duckworth on Grit
I suspect that grit, not talent, is the single best predictor of success for novelists, too.
Annie Lennox on Creativity
The Value of Uncertainty
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
— Pablo Picasso
Coming to Brookline
I will be appearing in Brookline, MA, on March 12 to celebrate the town’s community-wide read of Defending Jacob. I am really looking forward to this event, not just because the organizers have been so gracious, but because it is the town where I grew up and where my family lived for a long time. In fact, my parents met at Brookline High, where I will be speaking. Come join us if you can.
Hemingway: “Make it alive”
You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across — not just depict life — or criticize it — but to actually make it alive. So that when you read something by me you actually experience the thing.
Hemingway, age 25, letter to his father, March 1925