Category: Reading as a Writer

  • Writers Who Don’t Read

    For over ten years I’ve written posts about the craft of fiction, every other Wednesday, here on this site. I have to believe I have…

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  • Fist

    It has happened twice now, toward the end of the final draft of a project. There it is, a glaring typo discovered at the beginning…

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  • From the Archives: About the Blurred Line

    [This blogpost first appeared here on 4 May 2016] I'm going to get a bit academic on you here. Bear with me. The post is…

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  • Three Portraits of a Reader

    He reads Robert Alter’s translation, The Five Books of Moses. Seeking to understand the literary qualities of the Hebrew––a language he studied for three weeks…

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  • Quote and Comment, Bradbury

    Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps…

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