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- “Until you’re actually doing it”
- E.B. White in his writing shed
- Paperback now on sale
- “What little I’ve accomplished”
- Shakespeare as he intended it to sound
- Scenius
- Ian McEwan on creating characters
- Jacob Begins
- “All That Is Mine” Book Club Kit
- On sale now!
- Ian McEwan interviewed
- The Bic Pen
- Familiars
- New Novel Coming March 2023
- The Myth of a Golden Age of Books
- David Milch at work
- Now on Apple TV+
- “The point of change”
- Defending Jacob trailer
- Victor Hugo
- Art Is Hard
- Moby Mobile
- A character who yearns
- Happy reading
- Neil Gaiman: Make Good Art
- Gatsby Unchained
- How Daniel Pink Writes
- “All good things must begin”
- Gay Talese on Writer’s Block
- The Silence
- “Limited” by Carl Sandburg
- After you finish
- Jonathan Haidt explains our contentious culture
- Leon Uris: Research feeds your writing
- Tweet of the Day
- Dorothy Parker, blocked
- Quote of the Day
- New York City, 1950
- Procrastination is thinking
- My Oblique Strategies
- Shakespeare’s speech on immigrants
- Fitzgerald: “utter helplessness”
- Make it new (and not)
- Creating vs. analyzing
- The New Jim Crow
- Story machines
- Theories of procrastination
- The Efficient Plots Hypothesis
- Ian McEwan’s writing day
- On Voluptas
- Auden: “a genuine writer forgets”
- How Styron wrote
- “The Year of Lear”
- If it’s hard, why do it?
- Writing as meditation
- Quote of the day
- Horace: Artless art
- On procrastination, good and bad
- A better map of the world
- A natural style
- George Saunders on writing
- Arthur Conan Doyle on the origin of Sherlock Holmes
- The Virtue of Ignorance
- Postcard from the Back Bay
- Turning time into language
- Pixar’s story rules
- The procrastination muse
- Sunday poem
- Jimmy Rushing: Going to Chicago
- The tyranny of suspense
- Elizabeth Gilbert on success
- The Writer’s Anxiety
- Self-doubt
- How (and when and where) to write
- A thought for New Year’s Day
- Sam Harris: The self is an illusion
- DeLillo: who I write for
- Creative Process
- Reckless
- Poem of the day
- Hemingwrite
- Nina Darnton’s “The Perfect Mother”
- Calvino #1
- Calvino #2
- Calvino #3
- An artist’s name
- Rainy Day
- After the flood
- All alike
- Photo of the Day
- Resisting the present
- Van Gogh Museum
- Twain on “show, don’t tell”
- The virtues of hackery
- The First Flight
- “Never do it the same way again”
- Oh, the places you’ll go
- Whose voice does the reader hear?
- Billy Budd manuscript
- Orwell
- Flickr Find of the Day
- South End, June 10: Last appearance for the summer
- Boston rapid transit map, 1954
- The Artist in the Arena
- Gut churn
- Just keep making
- Nationality: without
- Ira Glass: The gap
- Up a tree
- Brian Eno: Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm
- George R.R. Martin’s “secret weapon”
- Emerson: Enthusiasm
- David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From
- Updike on his early stories
- How you comin’ on that novel?
- Craft
- Winter
- “The extension of our sympathies”
- Book lust (a continuing series)
- Angela Lee Duckworth on Grit
- Annie Lennox on Creativity
- The Value of Uncertainty
- Coming to Brookline
- Hemingway: “Make it alive”
- Quote of the Day
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Write Posthumously
- Louis C.K. on cell phones
- Trade paperback pub day
- Mary Karr: What you are doomed to write
- Stranded
- Library Way
- The Strangler unearthed
- Joan Acocella: Blocked
- Keats: “I was never afraid of failure”
- “It’s always difficult”
- “Each book should be a new beginning”
- Video of the Day
- Hemingway, 1945
- Library in the Cloud
- Award season
- Creatures
- A Little Facelift
- Tweet of the Day
- 1984 recovered
- Writer-in-chief, cont’d
- Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers
- Henry James: The Art of Fiction
- Quote of the Day
- Paperback Pub Day
- Miserable people
- John and Me, cont’d
- John and Me
- Relax! You’ll Be More Productive
- Boston, 1940
- Tweet of the Day
- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
- Best Book Trailer Ever
- Three Questions
- How Writers Write: Roxana Robinson
- Valediction
- 2012 Wrap-up
- New York, 1950
- Writing is frustration
- New York, 1944
- Write posthumously
- Fan Ho
- Quote of the Day
- The desire to matter
- Orwell in torment
- Bonnie Prince Billy: I See a Darkness
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, happiness and flow
- Louis C.K. on Twitter
- Chief’s ring
- Steve Jobs on ideas vs. execution
- Quote of the Day
- Obama offstage
- Conrad: The sitting is all
- Roth: Stop now
- Today’s paper
- Graying Obama
- Junot Diaz: You keep writing anyway
- Ian McEwan on the ideal length of a story
- After the storm
- Genialna!
- On the subway
- Dispatch from Paris
- Three Lawyer-Writers
- Gay Talese
- Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer (1963)
- William James: Habit
- Alison Krauss: Baby, Now That I’ve Found You
- Coney Island, 1952
- Défendre Jacob, the book trailer
- Route 66, 1969
- Emerson: Finish each day and be done with it
- Homer votes
- Demolition of Boston’s West End
- Zadie Smith’s Ten Rules for Writers
- Antietam, 1862
- Tchaikovsky: Work without inspiration
- Happy 49th
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Not the audience, the reader
- Picturing Jacob
- Goodbye, summer
- Picasso: I am always doing what I cannot do
- Elmore Leonard on bad movies and good writing
- Quote of the Day
- Bookplates are back
- Lartigue again
- Lartigue
- Orwell: Good Bad Books
- Whale and Calf
- George Harrison: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Good F***ing Design Advice
- Defending Jacob on the Today Show
- Aaron Sorkin: Now all I have to do…
- Inside Random House
- The backlist is back
- Bradbury: Action is hope
- Still lifes by Christopher Stott, cont’d
- Giamatti on baseball
- Fenway ’56
- Ken Burns: On Story
- Into the Woods
- John Fox on ball games
- The original death of publishing
- New York, 1908
- Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh
- Ex Libris
- “There is only the trying”
- Imtiaz Dharker: Carving
- Marilyn
- In case you missed it
- Our golden age of reading
- This morning in the Public Garden
- In today’s Wall Street Journal
- The latest on Defending Jacob
- UK pub day
- Ad of the day
- Yale vs. Princeton, 1903
- L.A.P.D Archives, 1955
- London Tube campaign
- Quote of the Day
- “MCMXIV” by Philip Larkin
- Richard and Mildred Loving, 1965
- Week in Review
- What a week
- D-day
- Do schools kill creativity?
- Review of the day
- Making Gatsby
- Climbing the charts
- Tweet of the Day
- Iconic images colorized
- A Big Week
- Advertising Jacob
- Missing the West End
- Copley Square, 1910
- Video of the day
- Harlem, 1946
- New York, 1946
- Manhattan, 1959
- “A fair-haired crew-cut lad”
- Another Star
- Tour Schedule
- Robert Longo: Untitled (Windows at Night)
- How to Start
- Rodin: The Old Courtesan
- Up the Amazon
- The Shape of Things to Come
- Just create to create
- The Holstee Manifesto
- Support your indie bookstore!
- Emily Dickinson was here
- N is for Neville
- A letter from Edward Gorey
- “I’ve been stumped here for a while”
- Italy, 1940
- The road to ruin
- Cousy
- Sam and Dave: You Don’t Know Like I Know (1967)
- The Just World Hypothesis
- Jacob earns a star from PW
- Jacob’s English jacket
- Gehrig
- Q&A
- Quote for the Day
- Apple.com today
- Touch the Hem of His Garment
- Teddy Thompson: In My Arms
- Face of the Day
- Joyce
- Quarterbacks of the NFL, 1961
- October baseball
- The novel-writing process in one chart
- Think Different, cont’d
- Ali for Apple
- Think Different, cont’d
- Steve Jobs introduces the “Think Different” campaign
- Jonah Lehrer: Grit
- Lamb House
- The Master
- Talking Heads: Life During Wartime
- San Francisco, 1906
- Ted Williams, 1939
- The origin of Roy Hobbs
- We built it for ourselves
- A blurb from Joseph Finder
- Uncovered
- Public Writer, Private Writer
- Quote of the Day
- Ford XL-500
- Nook: So far, so good
- Amy Winehouse: “Teach Me Tonight” (2004)
- Quote of the Day
- Hemingway, 1916
- Billy Preston and Ray Charles: Agent Double-O Soul
- The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read
- Bill Russell, 1961
- The lost Vermeer
- Every writer is a thief
- Whitey Bulger, age 23
- Promoting Jacob
- Hemingway, 1923
- The Death of Print
- Leonardo, procrastinator
- Southie reacts to the capture of Whitey Bulger
- NHL ’67
- Making books is fun!
- Mencken on great artists and virtuous men
- How to Tie Your Shoes
- Front page
- Wings not included
- Think Quantity
- Paul Rand for Ford
- The minimalist’s business card
- Win an advance copy of “Defending Jacob”
- The creative cycle in a nutshell
- Wisdom
- “And then I saw her…”
- Orwell on Dickens
- Our golden age
- Moby reimagined
- Orange sunrise
- Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer!
- Steichen at war
- 1938 Bugatti 57S Atlantic
- Continuous Partial Attention
- You are what you read
- Mark Twain on film
- New York, 1902
- Phil Jackson, 1972
- Robert Longo: Shark
- Golden Gate Bridge under construction
- Robert Campbell on Boston’s Human Scale
- Why are we attracted to crime stories?
- Pre-first edition
- Inactivity
- Orhan Pamuk: “A writer is…”
- The Ignorance of Voters
- Pessimism/optimism
- The Patron Saint of Writers
- Defending Jacob update
- Write because you feel like writing
- Writer’s Block
- Aqua Tower, Chicago
- Rilke: “The Man Watching”
- Three thoughts on starting a new novel
- Why working people vote Republican
- Any way but lightly
- Why do writers like working in coffee shops?
- Fenway Park, 1925
- Quote of the Day
- Miller & Monroe, 1957
- Sand Dunes, Oceano, California 1936
- Prague, 1924
- Quote of the Day
- Lartigue
- Steinbeck
- Boston, 1971
- The end of the shy author?
- Fitzgerald’s briefcase
- Chuey House
- Baldessari: Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell
- New York, 1964
- What information consumes
- Bird vs. Magic
- Photo of the Day
- What Creativity Means
- Quote of the Day
- Sunday poem: “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda
- Jaws
- The price of coal
- Blurbathon
- Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers
- How to Balance Work and Family
- Quote of the Day
- Pale Blue Dot
- Calvino: And then something happens
- The Five Commandments
- What good shall I do this day?
- Madison Square Garden, 1951
- California, 1936
- Not the fact, the feeling
- Put down that book
- Zelda
- Blurbing Jacob
- Building the Empire State Building
- Fitzgerald
- Jacob’s knife
- Reading vs. Writing
- “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur
- Margaret Atwood: Books are frozen voices
- After the forest fire
- Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity
- Good News, Bad News, Great News
- Steichen’s WWII photographers
- California, 1940
- Pacific Ocean
- Rockefeller Center, New York
- Copyright Run Amok
- Auden: September 1939
- Penn Station, ca. 1910
- Quote of the Day
- Blue marble
- Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us
- Photo of the Day
- Photo of the Day
- Falls
- Oceanscape
- Photo of the Day
- Billie Holiday
- New York, 1958
- David Mitchell: Plot and character
- Columbia Park, Philadelphia, 1901
- Creating Billy Bathgate
- Photo of the Day
- Mannahatta, 1609
- Great Moments in Publishing
- Babe Ruth, 1919
- Kundera: Lightness of form
- “Madame Bovary” translated by Lydia Davis
- Back Bay, 1904
- Polo Grounds, 1916
- What to Write
- Book Cover of the Day
- JFK, 1960
- 1937 All-Stars
- Hemingway in Paris, 1923
- A painter’s card
- Quote of the Day
- Laziness will not do
- Zeppelin, 1924
- Empire State Building, opening day, 1931
- The embodiment of raw experience
- Photo of the Day
- Salinger, 1952
- Late Traveler
- New York, 1932
- Montgomery, Alabama, 1958
- Making Eddie Coyle
- Don’t Do It For Anyone Else
- Shanghai 1990 vs. Shanghai 2010
- Record Club: Need You Tonight
- Wanda Jackson: Thunder on the Mountain
- How To Become a Writer
- Flaubert at Work
- Malamud: “work in uncertainty”
- Enjoy the process of creation
- Fast Fish and Loose Fish
- How to give a TED talk
- Photo of the Day
- Face of the Day
- Penn Station, 1962
- Moby
- Quote of the Day
- Galbraith on modern conservatism
- Fuck you, Melville!
- The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
- In Between Days
- Quote of the Day
- Nosing around in nonsense
- Why read?
- Fitzgerald: What people are ashamed of
- Classic icon prints
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Photo of the Day
- Photo of the Day #2
- Ty Cobb, ca. 1915
- Cologne, 1945 cont’d
- Cologne, 1945
- Bricklayer’s Mate
- Salman Rushdie: writing out of “your best self”
- Dub FX: Soothe Your Pain
- Nabokov’s cards
- Tweeting to no one
- Darwinian Theories of Beauty
- Garrison Keillor: Advice to writers
- 11.22.63
- Quote of the Day
- Boston, February 1944
- Shoes
- Kanye West: Power
- Eddie Coyle comes to the stage, almost
- A kiss in the dark
- Fly
- “Best Society” by Philip Larkin
- Zadie Smith on Facebook
- Still lifes by Christopher Stott
- No such thing as a bad review
- Voices in Our Heads
- George Orwell Writes a Novel
- Five Fingers of Death
- Updike: Words that enter in silence and intimacy
- Chuck Close: Inspiration is for amateurs
- Happy St. Crispin’s Day
- Off to NYC
- What are books good for?
- The contract with the reader
- Clem Snide covers Journey
- Hemingway: No rule on how to write
- The true size of Africa
- How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood
- Philip Roth interviewed on “Fresh Air”
- Orwell: Why I Write
- Roth: “The ordeal is part of the commitment”
- Arlo Guthrie: Songs are like fish
- “Next” by James Hynes
- Olivia Fox: “fail successfully”
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle … Live
- The Cure for Procrastination
- Drawing Circles
- James Surowiecki: Later
- San Francisco, 1906
- The origin of “I coulda been a contender”
- Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas
- Bellow on Inspiration
- Giotto’s Red Circle
- For Writers
- What “finished” means to a writer
- Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
- Churchill: On risk
- Quote of the Day
- The Wages of Worry
- What makes Emma Bovary so interesting?
- Photo of the Day
- “Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan
- Orwell of the Tribune
- Katherine Anne Porter: This thing between me and my writing
- It’s All Been Done
- The scope-severity paradox
- Oliver Sacks on Mythmaking
- John Cleese on creativity
- Sontag: Uncertainties and anxieties
- What “free” means on the web
- Auden: Murder is unique
- Virginia Woolf: By hook or by crook
- Tumblng
- The High-Low Problem
- Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers
- Flannery O’Connor: The novel is way to have experience
- Quote of the Day
- Hemingway’s standing desk
- Plan B: “She Said”
- “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike
- Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book
- Book lust
- Updike’s reader
- Hanging Up
- Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D.
- Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior
- Richard Ford: “make something good”
- FontFonter
- Hemingway, 1918
- Innovation and Risk
- DeLillo: “The writer leads”
- A note from Barack Obama
- The Sawyer Effect
- A Writer on Monday Morning
- Gorgeous Borges
- Fitzgerald on creating characters
- Starting Over
- How James Bond Got His Name
- Henry James, age 57
- Losing LeBron
- Flaubert on Life and Work
- Circadian Novels
- R.I.P. Inkwell Bookstore
- Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg
- West End Memories (continued)
- A Face Behind the Page
- West End Memories
- The MFA Generation
- Browning: “a few I value more”
- You never completely relax again
- Writers Unplugged
- Inventing Laurie Barber
- The Way We Virtually Live Now
- A Hangman’s Metaphysics
- The Pleasures of Imagination
- “Matterhorn”
- Bloggiversary
- Writing Like It’s 1999
- The Murder Gene
- The Mystery Writer’s Dilemma
- “I have lived alone in the woods”
- A Male Jodi Picoult
- New Money
- The Price of Procrastination
- Not-So-Random House
- Sven Birkerts: “the Internet and the novel are opposites”
- Portrait: Philip Roth
- Novels like letters
- How Writers Write: Ian McEwan
- Tweet of the Day
- Only Disconnect
- Flickr Find of the Day
- Writing Is Play
- Nexted
- The Burry Principle
- Is an ebook still a book?
- Can a writer quit?
- Will e-novels be shorter?
- Dr. Johnson: Libraries and “the vanity of human hopes”
- The Writer-in-Chief
- Dickens’ Outlines
- An Interview
- Wolf Hall
- Baseball’s Yankee Problem
- The issue is inequality, not total wealth
- Hilary Mantel: “locked in competition with myself”
- A Facelift
- Done!
- Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days
- Explaining Insomnia
- Google’s Buzzbomb
- How to design a book advertisement
- There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library
- Bill Gates on Energy
- Photographs of the Combat Zone
- The Tweeted Wisdom of Alain de Botton
- Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments
- A Lesson from Dickens
- The Perils of Advertising
- Last Words
- Stock and Flow
- The Street Photography of Jules Aarons
- The Anxiety of Finishing
- The Importance of Shipping
- “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World
- Adrienne Rich: “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”
- The Value of Failing
- Dickens and the Blacking Factory
- Rest and Re-creation
- Dickens and Me
- A friendly reviewer, at last
- Drawing Moby-Dick
- How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat
- The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars
- Dickens vs. the Snarks
- Publishing Agonistes
- John Irving: “A need to be alone”
- Maugham: “great suspicion of posterity”
- “Tamburlaine Must Die”
- Lukewarm Kindling
- Put down your Kindle and watch this
- As if they had been around all along
- Title Trouble
- “This Is Where I Leave You”
- Cormac McCarthy: “My Perfect Day”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Swimming under water”
- Ted Kooser: “Daddy Longlegs”
- Book 3 Update: The Final Push
- Walt Whitman for Levi’s
- Financial Lives of the Poets
- “Immersive text-only experiences”
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is … Pippi Longstocking?
- Philip Roth on the novel’s “cultic” future
- Michael Penn’s photographs of Philadelphia
- A Favorite Review
- Scrapbook
- A “Strangler” Word Cloud
- This is your brain on e-books
- “City of Thieves”
- How to Make a Movie About a Writer
- Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Boston Mob
- Vermeer
- Eavan Boland: “Quarantine”
- Barbara Mensch’s photographs of Fulton Fish Market
- A cabin made of hours
- Biocriminology
- A Thousand Words a Day
- Throwaway novels
- Writer’s Room: W. Somerset Maugham
- Writer’s Room: Cory Doctorow
- How Writers Write: J.G. Ballard
- Inside “The Strangler”: The New Boston, 1963
- William Manchester’s struggle
- A few links
- George Herbert: “Church Monuments”
- Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted”
- Edmund Wilson Regrets
- Julia Child: “The way to a full and healthy life”
- Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall
- Philip Roth: “the desire to get the work right”
- Ten Views of the Combat Zone
- Wallace Stevens: “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm”
- Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog
- Philip Larkin: “This Is the First Thing”
- Book Three Update
- Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York
- “No battle plan…”
- Lawrence Lessig on the Google book search settlement
- Remembering Updike the Father
- Crime novels and entertainments
- Kate’s Mystery Books closes (for now)
- Makers vs. Managers
- “Free” and the Future of Publishing
- Walter Cronkite and “The Strangler”
- The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”
- Best Boston Movie Ever: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”
- E-Books and Distracted Reading
- Why the Strangler?
- How Writers Write: Graham Greene
- Capote and Ellison: Blocked or just procrastinating?
- On Moving to a New Publisher in the UK
- Fred Wilson on Social Media
- How Writers Write: Philip Roth
- Publishers as booksellers?
- Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting
- Writers as Performers
- Oprah’s Mystery Reading List
- The Science of Home-Field Advantage
- Kickstarter
- The Breakthrough, at last
- The economics of dealing crack
- Creating Writers: Do MFA Programs Produce Dull Writers?
- “The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon
- “The Commitments”
- I Miss U: Updike Is Gone
- Things I Love: The AlphaSmart Neo
- Writing in the Age of Distraction
- When Every Writer Is a Publisher
- Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow: Why Writers Get Stuck
- A Quote for the Holiday Weekend
- The Way We Write Now: Novelists and Their Blogs
Collections
On Writing
- “Until you’re actually doing it”
- My Oblique Strategies
- On procrastination, good and bad
- George R.R. Martin’s “secret weapon”
- Public Writer, Private Writer
- Leonardo, procrastinator
- Think Quantity
- The Patron Saint of Writers
- Why do writers like working in coffee shops?
- What Creativity Means
- The Five Commandments
- Creating Billy Bathgate
- Flaubert at Work
- Fast Fish and Loose Fish
- In Between Days
- Shoes
- Voices in Our Heads
- Drawing Circles
- It’s All Been Done
- Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers
- Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior
How Writers Write
- E.B. White in his writing shed
- David Milch at work
- How Daniel Pink Writes
- Ian McEwan’s writing day
- How Styron wrote
- George R.R. Martin’s “secret weapon”
- How Writers Write: Roxana Robinson
- Flaubert at Work
- Nabokov’s cards
- How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood
- How Writers Write: Ian McEwan
- Dickens’ Outlines
- How Writers Write: Edwidge Danticat
- How Writers Write: J.G. Ballard
- How Writers Write: Graham Greene
- How Writers Write: Philip Roth
Keepers
- The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read
- Why are we attracted to crime stories?
- Copyright Run Amok
- “Madame Bovary” translated by Lydia Davis
- “Next” by James Hynes
- Drawing Circles
- Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg
- Will e-novels be shorter?
- Wolf Hall
- Baseball’s Yankee Problem
- Done!
- The Street Photography of Jules Aarons
- “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World
- The View from Below: A midlist author watches the ebook wars
- Dickens vs. the Snarks
- “Tamburlaine Must Die”
- How to Make a Movie About a Writer
- Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Boston Mob
- Biocriminology
- “Free” and the Future of Publishing
- Best Boston Movie Ever: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”
- Writers as Performers