What I’m Writing
What I’m Reading
Book Reviews
A Promised Land by Barack Obama: Click here to read my review
All Adults Here by Emma Straub: Click here to read my review
Other
“A Lifetime of Reading” by Min Jin Lee | April 7, 2021 | The New York Times
“Return the National Parks to the Tribes” by David Treuer | April 12, 2021 | The Atlantic
“What We Can and Can’t Learn from a New Translation of the Gospels” by Casey Cep | April 28, 2021 | The New Yorker
“The Woman Who Made van Gogh” by Russell Shorto | April 14, 2021 | The New York Times Magazine
“How a Pandemic Puppy Saved My Grieving Family” by Nicole Chung | April 6, 2021 | TIME
“Fashion Was Back at the 2021 Oscars” by Rachel Syme | April 26, 2021 | The New Yorker
What I’m Listening To
The Book
As I begin the always exciting (but always daunting!) process of outlining and drafting a new chapter of my book, I thought I’d share some of my favorite pieces of advice about writing. In no particular order…
“To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.” - Gertrude Stein
“Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!” - William Faulkner
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.” – Winston Churchill
“Good art originates not from the desire to show off but from the desire to show yourself.” – Glennon Doyle
“Put your ass where your heart wants to be.” – Steven Pressfield