This is absolutely the best article I’ve read for a while on contemporary issues in writing – the way it’s talked about, taught, and so on: ‘A Writing Career Becomes Harder to Scale’, by Dani Shapiro. Shapiro says: ‘the decisive factor is what I call endurability: that is, the ability to deal effectively with uncertainty, [...]
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Response to A.S. Patric’s ‘Questionnaire’
I was thinking about A.S. Patric’s recent post on the Overland blog all of yesterday afternoon. I thought I’d have a go at responding to his piece, just off-the-cuff. Note: the words in bold are Alec’s. Are we more disconnected? I know how late my crush goes to bed. Are we more superficial? Skin is a surface. Does [...]
READ MOREAdventures of the badge with the face of Albert Camus #1
Shop assistant: Who’s that? Me: Albert Camus. SA: Who? Me: He’s a philosopher. SA: What? Me: A philosopher. *shop assistant stares blankly* Me: He’s a writer. SA: Oh. Does he write poetry? Me: No. SA: What does he write? Me: Philosophy, fiction. *very long pause* SA: Ha,ha, I’m such an airhead!
READ MOREA Very Short Introduction to the Absurd, My Absurd Moment, and Lester Burnham as Absurd Hero…
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus was one of those books I attacked with dog-ears and pen marks. Whole pages are underlined in my well-thumbed copy, which I revisited when writing my novel manuscript Smoke & Dancing, and recently for my thesis. I think about my own steps to lucidity, when I acknowledged life’s inherent [...]
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