I couldn’t write an intro to this review without getting caught up in the literary throat clearing of praising Meg Wolitzer, so I’m just going to suck it up and get it out of the way: Meg Wolitzer has the type of brain that makes you feel smarter just by being in the same room [...]
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Craft Lecture Review: Meg Wolitzer on Story v. Anecdote
Posted in Craft Lecture Reviews, meg wolitzer on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Craft Lecture: John Westermann on Novel Into A Movie
Posted in Craft Lecture Reviews, John Westermann on August 15, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Success is the fulfillment of an expectation. If one’s expectation is to be the greatest home-run hitter that ever lived, then success is passing Hammerin’ Hank Aaron on the all-time list. But if your expectations are to write a Pulitzer-worthy work of art, not one of those 756 home runs you’ve hit are worth a [...]
Craft Lecture: Roger Rosenblatt on Introductions
Posted in Craft Lecture Reviews, Roger Rosenblatt on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As warned by Director Bob Reeves in his orientation session, Roger Rosenblatt devoted the first line of his Craft Lecture towards making a bad pun. There’s little reason to repeat that pun here, both in deference to Roger himself, and to the Kraft family, who are indeed, very much philanthropists and patrons of the arts. [...]
