I’ve recently started reading Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Aside from the fact that her writing style is fresh, honest, and hilarious…there’s a practicality to it that is proving immensely helpful. In a brief chapter about perfectionism, she offers this – helpful to writers, visual artists, actors, musicians, chefs…whatever [...]
Posts under ‘Literary Arts’
Curious George Saves the Day
Remember the Curious George children’s books? Simple and delightful stories…paired with great, memorable illustrations. Read some about the story behind the stories HERE. View a slideshow of a current exhibition HERE. “He imitates gestures, examines objects. He sees a hat, he puts it on his head; he sees a seagull and is determined to fly [...]
The Writer's Almanac
Here’s something to enrich your cultivate-the-artist-in-me times… There are daily audio clips and emails with poetry, prose, and literary history with Garrison Keillor of American Public Media. The Writer’s Almanac
Verse
Here’s a poetic photo essay we found this morning…beautiful.
Where does inspiration begin?
For those of us searching for something to inspire our art (whether it be visual, performing, literary, etc) or to inspire us to look for something inspire our art, here are some (not necessarily pleasant) words from Annie Dillard, hinting at where we might find a catalyst for progress in our work: “To find a [...]
In Memory of JD Salinger
“The famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger has died at his New Hampshire home, his literary representative said in a statement. He was 91 years old. Jerome David Salinger retreated to a New Hampshire farmhouse in 1953, a few years after he published the high-school classic The Catcher in the Rye. And there he stayed, for the [...]
Good Art – Born Inside or Out? (part 2)
“One of my current roles is to help people write poetry. I begin with them where they are, and that’s exciting. Some fledgling poets come with image stacked upon image and form upon form (usually a kind of rhyme scheme). These poets rely on externals. Indeed, they are not so far off – except perhaps [...]
Speak
Another book-movie combination with a beautiful integration of art. Speak. The internet movie database summarizes the film this way: “After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.” [...]
No Country for Old Typewriters
An interesting article from NY Times about Cormac McCarthy, NM resident and well known author (he wrote No Country for Old Men and The Road, both of which have been made into films)… . . . . . Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, [...]
Crossing over…
When an artist takes a painting in one medium and creates a version of it in another medium…we wouldn’t expect the second to be identical to the first. It only makes sense for differences to surface, right? So why do people raise such a fuss over book-turned-movie? Here’s a really great article from The Curator…read [...]
