Thoughts on writing and reading and pretty much anything else
- Humor Manifest“For me, it is this smile—deriding the having and the not having, the pleasure and the pain, the sublimity and suffering of the human situation—that is the essence of humour.”… Read more: Humor Manifest
- An Improvisational Stylist Takes ShapeThe way that an artist creates can prove just as important as the art they create, both to the artist themselves and for the vitality of the art. Improvisation, or… Read more: An Improvisational Stylist Takes Shape
- Common Literary Devices Found in Beckett’s ProseBeckett’s prose demands attention. At times it demands a great deal of patience and focus, and readers that are willing to acquiesce will find themselves confronted, line after line, with… Read more: Common Literary Devices Found in Beckett’s Prose
- So Much for the Dry Bones: a series on style apparent in Samual Beckett’s proseSamuel Beckett once wrote of James Joyce’s late Work in Progress: “Here form is content, content is form. You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is… Read more: So Much for the Dry Bones: a series on style apparent in Samual Beckett’s prose
- on progressionnot progress each new day, I make an effort to journal, or as I like to think of it, sit there for much longer than I am proud to admit… Read more: on progression