Spare the Darling
‘Telling myself to sit down to write for two hours and write 1,000 words feels intimidating because I feel obligated about the end result,’ said Harrison Moore. ‘So now, I take the approach of taking a word and playing around with it, perhaps doing some freewriting, taking a quote from an archive and exploring what it means.’ Instead of giving
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On a rainy Saturday morning, some twenty writers, published and aspiring, piled into one of the bookstores for a workshop called “Texts and Betrayal: Secrets and Boundaries.” The session was led by Irena Klepfisz, a poet, essayist, and child survivor of the Holocaust whose work I’ve long admired. After brief introductions, she led the group through... See more