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Words of Wisdom for Writers

Last night brought the closing event of the 2008 Fall for the Book Festival: an appearance by Michael Cunningham, author […]

Michael Cunningham’s name is almost inevitably linked with three things: his third novel, The Hours; the Pulitzer Prize he won

…and the truth is that the Energizer Bunny has nothing on us! A crack staff and extensive team of volunteers

Quick note between Fall for the Book postings: Today’s Washington Post published my review of the new anthology, D.C. Noir

As Fall for the Book’s third day unfolded on campus and around the region, I spent most of the day

Monday’s night’s event with Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe drew more than 1,200 readers to George Mason’s Fairfax Campus. The event

Despite being largely overshadowed (in some corners of the press, at least) by the National Book Festival next week, Fall

…and in the process, my own life — and my occasional posts here — will likely get put on hold

Since David Foster Wallace’s death last week, writers and critics around the world have been examining anew Wallace’s influence on

After borrowing a couple of exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s latest for my last post, I trotted out another great writing

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” said Thomas Mann, and

On Thursday night, my friend Kyle — a fine fiction writer and now an accomplished translator as well — was