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The latest "By Heart": Blue Hill chef Dan Barber on John Muir and how to start a farm-to-table movement for the future.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/05/how-john-muir-is-revolutionizing-the-farm-to-table-food-movement/371372/
Maggie Shipstead on literary time management: Woolf, structuring narrative time, and how to stay content as "Time Passes" at the desk. Her essay in "By Heart" for The Atlantic.
Leslie Jamison on Virginia Woolf and writing about bodily disorder. Read her essay for our series in The Atlantic.
What It Really Means to Be ‘Kafkaesque’
Author Ben Marcus says the beautiful but sorrowful strangeness of Kafka’s “A Message from the Emperor” make it a perfect piece of writing.
Read more. [Image: Doug McLean]
How to Write: A Year in Advice from Franzen, King, Hosseini, and More
This year, I talked to nearly 50 different writers for the By Heart series, a weekly column about beloved quotes and cherished lines. Each author shared the life-changing, values-shaping passages that have helped sustain creative practice throughout his or her career. Their contributions were eclectic and intensely personal: Jim Crace, whose novel Harvest was a finalist for the Man Booker prize this year, shared a folk rhyme from his childhood, the investigative New York Times journalist Michael Moss (Salt, Sugar, Fat) close-read the Frito-Lay slogan, and This American Life host Ira Glass eulogized a longtime friend and collaborator. Though I began by asking each writer the same question—what line is most important to you?—their responses contained no formula.
There was also no specific requirement to talk about craft. And yet writers—being writers—offered a generous bounty of practical writing advice. They shared exercises. They discussed principles of revision. Some presented ways to beat procrastination, or fight back against writing-desk ennui. And a great many shared their thoughts on the most crucial craft question of all: Why does some writing feel dead on the page, while other words thrum with life?
Taken together, these conversations were like attending an MFA program—I learned that much. Here are the best short pieces of writing advice I heard from writers in 2013, a whole year’s worth of wisdom.
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One year of By Heart author-wisdom! This is like our version of Cliff's Notes.
The Poem That Made Sherman Alexie Want to ‘Drop Everything and Be a Poet’
Alexie never thought he could leave his reservation to pursue a writing career—but a line written by Adrian C. Louis taught him to venture outside the “reservation of his mind.”
Read more. [Image: Doug McLean]
The Book That Changed Reza Aslan’s Mind About Jesus
By now, millions of people have watched FOX news host Lauren Green’s grilling of writer Reza Aslan. Last week, the clip of the interview made the Internet flare up—mostly in outcry that a news anchor would so flagrantly suggest that Muslim thinkers are more biased and agenda-driven than other (presumably white, Christian) talking heads.
Though Green’s questions received scorn, media reaction largely avoided the more substantive questions brought up by the interview and Aslan’s new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. And that’s too bad. These are lines of inquiry worth tracing: What does Jesus stand for, and who gets to decide? Who has the authority to determine what a figure of massive religious and cultural importance really “means”?
Read more. [Image: Doug McLean]
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It’s tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don’t think conceptually while I work on a first draft — I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there’s one thing I’m sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
Stephen King on the art of opening sentences – a fine addition to our archive of wisdom on writing. Also see King on why the adverb is not your friend. (via explore-blog)
This week in our series, Stephen King breaks down the qualities of a great first sentence, shares a few of his favorites, and reveals the opening of his long-brewed sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep.
We asked Ira Glass for insight on Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, the new novel in verse by his late friend, David Rakoff. The host of This American Life shared his favorite lines in an essay for our series.
And still my favorite passage in the book resists this kind of analysis, this kind of takeaway teaching I’ve relied on Gatsby for. It’s a great example of what I love about the book, and at the same time what I find mysterious and even problematic about it.
Author Susan Choi on her favorite passage from The Great Gatsby. (via theatlantic)
Susan Choi's homage to her favorite passage in The Great Gatsby--the gorgeous and complicated thing Nick says as the book begins to end.
Doug McLean's art for the what John Summers calls the "moral charter" of James Agee's book-length essay, Cotton Tenants.
Read Summers' thoughts on the recession-era relevance of Agee's Depression-era work in The Atlantic.
This Close author Jessica Francis Kane turns to lines from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius to beat procrastination and aimlessness of purpose. Read her thoughts on this quote in our series in The Atlantic.
Even novelists have trouble choosing the right words. Khaled Hosseini's beautiful meditation on Stephen King's classic "The Body" (remade as Stand by Me) for our series in The Atlantic.
Doug McLean's creeptastic art for Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This week in our series, Benjamin Percy (Red Moon) called this passage the scariest in all literature.
Percy makes the case at The Atlantic.
We've got a food mini-theme going on. Michael Pollan last week, this week Michael Moss--whose new book Salt, Sugar, Fat is a brilliant expose of the processed food industry.
In our conversation for The Atlantic, he deconstructed the devious appeal of the potato chip.
