I’m a guest on this week’s installment of Digital Campus, a podcast hosted by Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The episode’s theme is “Publishers Bleakly”, and Dan, Mills, Tom, Josh Greenberg of the NYPL and I talk about some of the… Continue reading »
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“The Singing Will Never Be Done”
Today is Armistice Day. It doesn’t seem appropriate to dwell here on how powerfully affecting I find the Great War and the poetry that came out of those bloody years. Instead I’ll point you to The First World War Poetry Archive, an amazing online collection of manuscripts, photos, and other artifacts and echoes of the… Continue reading »
Thanks for the Memoirs
Journalists are handed a lot of evidence that the world at large doesn’t think much of our trade. No-one seems to appreciate how selflessly we serve the greater good, what keen-eyed observers and trenchant analysts we are. So there we are, feeling all righteous and aggrieved, and then the news cycle coughs up a reminder… Continue reading »
NaNoWriMo
That would be National Novel Writing Month. The goal: Write a 50,000-word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. That’s crazy talk, you say. I agree. So of course I have signed up to do it. How do you like my chances? If there are other DC-based NaNoWriMo-ers out there–even in this acronym-soup town that’s… Continue reading »
Fear and Writing
Much of the advice one hears about writing falls into what, for lack of a more inspired term, I’ll call the man-up category. As in: Just do it! Believe in your book! Persevere! Embrace your creativity! I’m all for confidence, although it’s not always in great supply in my life. I do believe that perseverance–which… Continue reading »
