Throughout 2018, except on rare occasion when not, I posted to this blog on Mondays, offering a post for the writing workshop on the second Monday and a Q & A with another writer on the fourth. As ever my posts tend to focus on my works, works-in-progress, and related reading. If you're new to this blog, dear writerly reader, subjects include literary essay, fiction, and poetry; Mexican history and literature; Texas, and in particular Far West Texas; and heavy doses of the history of the book and of technology in general.
Herewith, the top posts of the year:
December 24, 2018
José N. Iturriaga's "Mexico in US Eyes" (México en las miradas de Estados Unidos)
December 17, 2018
Top 10 + Books Read 2018
#1 was a tie between Peter Brannen's The Ends of the World and Jeremy Naydler's In the Shadow of the Machine. An especially crunchy list.
December 10, 2018
Luis Felipe Lomeli Interviews Yours Truly about Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion & etc.
December 3, 2018
Meteor, Influences, Ambiance
July 1, 2018
Marshall McLuhan: Some Notes by Way of a List of Books, Videos, and More
June 25, 2018
Notes on Tom Lea and His Epic Masterpiece of a Western, The Wonderful Country
June 18, 2018
A Review of Claudio Saunt's West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
April 30, 2018
Notes on Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century
March 5, 2018
February 4, 2018
On Organizing (and Twice Moving) a Working Library: Ten Lessons Learned of Late with the Texas Bibliothek
FOR THE WRITING WORKSHOP
November 12, 2018
Poetic Alliteration
October 8, 2018
Poetic Listing
September 24, 2018
Working with a Working Library: Kuddelmuddel
September 10, 2018
Poetic Repetition
August 13, 2018
Diction Drops and Spikes
June 11, 2018
Virginia Tufte's Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
May 14, 2018
Blast Past Easy: A Permutation Exercise with Clichés
April 9, 2018
Grokking Plot: The Elegant Example of Bread and Jam for Frances
Q & A WITH OTHER WRITERS
(with a special focus on grappling with digital distractions)
November 26, 2018
Amy Hale Auker, Author of Ordinary Skin: Essays From Willow Springs
November 18, 2018
Mary Mackey on The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, Bearing Witness, and Women Writers' Archives
October 29, 2018
Roger Greenwald on Translating Tarjei Vesaas's Through Naked Branches-- and On Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age
July 23, 2018
Lynn Downey: Research Must Serve the Writer, Not the Other Way Around
May 28, 2018
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub on Prodigal Children in the House of G-d: Stories
April 23, 2018
Sara Mansfield Taber on Chance Particulars: A Writer's Field Notebook
March 26, 2018
February 25, 2018
Leslie Pietrzyk on the Siren Song of the Internet and on Writing Silver Girl
Warmest wishes to you for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and swirlingly wondrous 2019!
Warmest wishes to you for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and swirlingly wondrous 2019!
