Debra Di Blasi’s contribution to the Wreckage of Reason II Blog Tour is beautifully Debra Di Blasi. Her piece, “Olbers’ Paradise,” includes sketches and photographs and dark boxes and symbols and of course, amazing language.
In a March post, I announced the release of the new Spuyten Duyvil anthology, Wreckage of Reason II. Some of the writers who are included in this anthology are participating in a blog tour to get to know one another’s work better.
Using Careless Speech for Careful Writing. Peter Elbow’s new book, Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing, was the impetus for this Day One 9 am panel.
As part of my ongoing professional development, every day I check in with a handful of writers in the blogosphere-mostly via RSS feed, a few notices via e-mail.
“Bigger is always better in the American imagination. But I am here to tell you–six books and nearly a decade later– that this mind-set is parochial and self-defeating. It’s also complete nonsense.”