because it’s so unreal. When I was six, my teacher read The Twits to the class, and it was a revelation ... almost cathartic. I’d never read anything like that. Lois Lowry, in a very different way, really trusts ... felt very nostalgic for me. How did you manage to strike that balance? RM: It was tricky. I didn’t ...
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adapted to film. I remember thinking when I read Lamb that it would make a remarkable movie. It’s such ... stories. It’s an odd thing to say about a fiction writer, but when you read her work, you see that it ... Cleveland, Ohio, and the West seemed very romantic and very wonderful to me when I was an adolescent. In ...
I've been reading about a dozen volumes of poems written this year and I don't think that one ... be last because he likes contradicting everyone so I thought he could be. I've never been ... seems in a much more minor key; it doesn't seem to have the same great ambition. Recently ...
– A poem is never finished (but maybe it should be). Ever read Leaves of Grass? Okay, which edition? If ... emulating. To Bukowski, a poem did not need to be holy or beautiful; it just needed to be honest. Antonin ... down. I’ll paraphrase form a very interesting piece Laird wrote for the Guardian: In the age of Twitter ...
Even when the Sarajevo episode ends, the story goes on. It seems to him at times that he’s recording ... believe it or not, they have several of your books in German... ” “So my books have been read around ... camp, shelling you day after day, how is it possible that the world isn’t lifting a finger to help when ...
inhabits its boundaries, its beginning, middle, and end. Sometimes, for the fun of it, to flex a different ... attention. And because it would be foolhardy to ditch a form that gives us so much pleasure. TQO: In your ... a social satire. I knew I was writing a book about reading and writing—although some people insist it ...
KKK. I think I was ten when I wrote my first poem. Later, after one particularly difficult move at the ... end of middle school, I began filling notebooks with (angst-ridden) poetry. It’s hard to say how ... poem “Translating Tagore.” In what language(s) are you most at home? Has translation (reading or ...
'twenties and 'thirties seems very different from the Yeats who may be influencing the work of some ... but today a complex and coherent system of reasons has been formed to explain his irrationality. His ... young writer in London or New York today. So I want to consider what it was in Yeats that influenced ...
office. I’ve also used it to join different writing groups. When used in moderation, it’s an important ... how we’ve survived for so long. Creativity is how we escaped. (I wrote a poem about what if we all ... of how I cope with certain things. It’s important for our survival. Right before shelter in place, ...
Page 45 from Issue 57-2 lona. One of the things I've been interested in doing in my ... university. This seems preferable to making the customary presentation in a Madrid bookstore. TQ: How were ... your readings received in the provinces? JG: Vanity aside, attendance has been overwhelming, thousands ...
