Anyone who loves writing and writers should do themselves a favor and visit the archive of the Word Patriots webcast. Host Mark Seinfelft, a novelist whose works include Symphonie Fantastique, Baldr and Beatrice, and the non-fiction study Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors, has pursued this labor of love for nearly a year, producing more…
The book is just a city bereft of avenues but teeming with alleyways animated by bossy sky rats and the guys who yell, unbuttoned, into Nothing It's where we lose our minds a little, heady with cheap Chinese offered out of stainless caravans and woozy from the joint which once stabled the Framer's horses but…
For me, wisdom does not seem to be growing hand-in-hand with age. Indeed, the opposite seems true: with every passing year, I seem to know less about the world--and my presumed place in it.
I've heard some writers complain (and I've been one of them) that after a day at work they find it almost impossible to write. In particular, I've heard writers like me--those who hold down day jobs as writers and editors--lament that after a day of writing or editing, the last thing they want to do…
This week on Mark Seinfelt’s Word Patriots webcast, Donald Anderson joins Mark to discuss his forthcoming work, Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir. Anderson directs the creative writing program at the United States Air Force Academy. Since 1989, he’s been Editor of War, Literature & the Arts: an international journal of the humanities.…
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 