Dennis Cooper on Writing as Sculpture
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Dennis Cooper on Writing as Sculpture
At some point during this time, I saw an interview with Tranströmer from the early 1980s where the reporter asked how he came up with his poem, “The Open Window.” In the poem, a man is shaving by an open window in the bathroom on the second floor when the razor turns into a helicopter and flies out low across the summer. Tranströmer thought for a b... See more
for those who work as I do—writing, deleting, tinkering, and rewriting in seemingly endless iterative loops—it begins the moment they dream up a new project and doesn’t end until the final proofs go to press.
Helen Sword • Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
The Forbidden Zone
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What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done.
George Saunders • George Saunders: What Writers Really Do When They Write
My entire philosophy of how I organize myself as a working painter can be summed up by something George Carlin said: “Just keep movin’ straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.”
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more