Read This to Learn That: Tara Conklin’s “The Last Romantics” and The Family Saga I just finished Tara Conklin’s book The Last Romantics on a plane, and I wanted to call, “Attention: People in the emergency row. Have you Read More
Read This to Learn That: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad with Money” and Starting as a Writer from Nothing One thing I know about the writing life is that you get better at the thing by doing it. I started out hoping to be Read More
Read This to Learn That: Nature Writing I’ve only once fallen in love with a piece of land, and I’ve been trying to write about it for a decade. When I bought Read More
Read This to Learn That: Free Indirect Discourse in “A Changed Man” There’s a style of third-person in fiction that frees up your narrator to let the characters indirectly share their thoughts, without all the clunkiness of Read More