I’ve heard it said that writers should need to write, and not just want to like any amateur with an idea and a blog. In fact Bukowski has a nice poem espousing that very idea. But here’s the thing: I think that idea is a bunch of crap put forth by pretentious assholes like Bukowski [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Joe'
How I Spent My Winter Break “Not Being A Writer”
January 5th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: blogs · break · Bukowski · Emerson · Joe · Winter · writers' habits · writing
Do You Understand the Words that Are Coming out of My Mouth?
October 9th, 2009 1 Comment
I’m a writer (or so I claim) but I’m also a talker (so everyone else claims). I’m just as happy giving a speech or having a conversation as I am writing a story or an essay or a poem. And yet I’m perplexed by the concept of “readings”. Not all of them, of course; I [...]
Professor Profile: Frederick Reiken
September 18th, 2009 No Comments
Based on my past and current class schedule here at Emerson, you would think I was doomed to take every single class Rick Reiken will ever teach. My first semester, I was dropped (unwillingly, at first) into two of his courses, a lit class and a novel workshop (novels, gag), and had no small amount [...]
Tags: Emerson · fiction · GPD · Joe · MFA · Professor Profiles · Reiken
Professor Previews, Part 2
September 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Poetry Workshop / John SkoylesJohn creates a remarkably friendly atmosphere in his workshop – remarkable because so much serious work gets done. This is the place to take your poems to the next level, because there is so much focus on revision and criticism. You won’t learn how to write poems; you’ll learn how [...]
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A Friend Needing a Read is a Friend Indeed
June 27th, 2008 2 Comments
Having recently completed a book-length manuscript, I now find myself in that awkward position where so many writers have been before: how do I get someone to read it and give me feedback? I know it needs copyediting and revision. In an ideal world, those services would be provided by my agent, my editor and [...]
Tags: editing · freelancing · Joe · writing
Writing & Being Written About, Online
May 22nd, 2008 No Comments
No doubt in response to Llalan’s rather humorous post about her newfound Weekly Dig/hops-lover celebrity, the New York Times posted an article from this Sunday’s Magazine written by former Gawker blogger Emily Gould. It chronicles her addiction to and eventual escape from the insane amounts of attention she got from blogging about her personal [...]
Tags: blogs · Joe · nonfiction · writing
Folk Tales of Niger, as translated by an Emerson Grad
April 29th, 2008 No Comments
Emerson Publishing & Writing MA Amanda Cushman is offering copies of her awesome thesis to you, her adoring public. Here’s the message from Amanda:
Hey everyone,Most of you know I have been madly working on my thesis project all semester, and finally I have completed it! The project consisted of the (brilliant) translation and design of [...]
Tags: emerson MA · Joe · short fiction
No One With a Blog is Truly Poor
April 24th, 2008 No Comments
Or at least that’s what I tell my parents every time I explain why I spend my days writing about silly things on the internet. But, lo! There is hope for writers who enjoy typing things onto a glowing screen and then using their google status messages to recklessly promote their ramblings. [...]
