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    THOMAS WOLFE: FOR THE PURE JOY OF LANGUAGE

    THOMAS WOLFE: FOR THE PURE JOY OF LANGUAGE

    Note: The following article is an excerpt from November 2017 post titled WRITE, DIE, OR GO NUMB, a brief exploration of my literary...
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    WITH THIS KEY

    WITH THIS KEY

    "To unlock the heart is to know its secrets, or as close as we may come, to hear its soft inner voice, a thing love alone can achieve,
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    THE DARLING BUDS

    THE DARLING BUDS

    MY FONDNESS FOR MAY borders on idolatry. I admit that. Her touch is a breeze of sunlight. Her laughter, the pelt of a rose. That it is my...
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    AND MUSIC AT THE CLOSE: PARTING WORDS

    AND MUSIC AT THE CLOSE: PARTING WORDS

    IN SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD II, Richard's uncle, "old John of Gaunt," infirm, close to death, makes an observation on the value of parting...
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    FOR A PENNY'S WORTH OF HAMLET

    FOR A PENNY'S WORTH OF HAMLET

    IT WAS AN AGE WHEN PLAYS, poems, and letters were written in longhand. The pen was not just metaphor. Try to imagine a slower, more even...
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    A CREDO FOR THOSE WHO GRIEVE

    A CREDO FOR THOSE WHO GRIEVE

    IN JANUARY, I posted an article called REFLECTING 17: THE BIG EVENT. True to its title, it looked back on the events of 2017, or at least...
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    LIKE ME: A VALENTINE FOR WRITERS

    LIKE ME: A VALENTINE FOR WRITERS

    APPLAUSE. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT. Even the noblest among us, the most self-assured, modest, and self-deprecating have to admit that....
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    I AM LARGE. I CONTAIN MULTITUDES.

    I AM LARGE. I CONTAIN MULTITUDES.

    SUSAN SARANDON QUOTED HIM more than once in Bull Durham, a film about the great American pastime. He is mentioned with Thomas Wolfe in...
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    LETTER TO A YOUNG WRITER

    LETTER TO A YOUNG WRITER

    A FEW DAYS AGO, I received an email from a young writer, who, after reading my last post, BLOG TO BOOK: A REPRISE, asked me three...
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    BLOG TO BOOK: A REPRISE

    BLOG TO BOOK: A REPRISE

    WHEN I FIRST PRINTED IT OUT it was close to seven inches deep, a mountain of excess and overreach that would eventually become my first...
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    WRITES

    WRITES

    WRITES. It is a word that implies, first, an action. He writes. She writes. And so on. If we noun our verb, as Shakespeare was known to...
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    WRITE-DIE-OR-GO-NUMB: MY LITERARY SAINTS

    WRITE-DIE-OR-GO-NUMB: MY LITERARY SAINTS

    THERE ARE REASONS WHY YOU WRITE. Desire. Compulsion. Necessity. The desperate must, as in I must write-die-or-go-numb. All of the above?...
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    TRIPPINGLY

    TRIPPINGLY

    I CONSIDERED DRAFTING a post on alliteration, but rethought that strategy. Why draw attention to a device I choose most often to avoid?...
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    BE NOT  TOO TAME NEITHER

    BE NOT TOO TAME NEITHER

    IN ACT 3 of HAMLET, the play, Hamlet the prince offers instruction to a troupe of actors. To paraphrase: Pay attention to words. Don't...
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    LADY LIBERTY OWES A DEBT TO MARTIN LUTHER

    LADY LIBERTY OWES A DEBT TO MARTIN LUTHER

    WITHOUT RELEVANCE, history is little more than entertainment, a benign curiosity. History can be shy about giving up its secrets. It...
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    THE SMALL PECULIAR ART OF HAVING, CULTIVATING, AND FINALLY MAKING A POINT

    THE SMALL PECULIAR ART OF HAVING, CULTIVATING, AND FINALLY MAKING A POINT

    This is, or should be, item #1 in the writer's catechism. The shy, fabulous, satisfying, all-knowing point.
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    GETTING THE WRITER OUT OF THE WAY

    GETTING THE WRITER OUT OF THE WAY

    IF WRITING IS ANYTHING, IT IS A PERFORMANCE. The writer is the lone figure on the stage. A world may watch, judge, applaud, hiss, throw...
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    AUTHOR AND FINISHER

    AUTHOR AND FINISHER

    The infinite is liberated through the finite, that is, through the absolute completeness of a line.
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    AN AURAL FASCINATION

    AN AURAL FASCINATION

    Effective writing is all about fascination—being instructed and fed by it, following where it leads, submitting to its word choices . . .
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    CONTENT AND EXECUTION

    CONTENT AND EXECUTION

    THE DISCERNING WRITER, the writer who respects his audience and his craft will consider execution with the same weight, or gravity, he...
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