Monthly Archives: August 2010

Eudora Welty’s potato salad

Posted on August 30, 2010 by

At the beginning of summer, Ari Weinzweig wrote about Eudora Welty’s potato salad in the Atlantic. He did not list the ingredients as I do below; instead he wrote sentences about them. “As always, for me, the story behind the … Continue reading →

Posted in place | Tagged , | 16 Comments

jane’s passions

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Jane Addams was a political activist who worked toward, and spoke out, for social justice, including women’s suffrage. I had heard of her but had no idea… In  Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight, I discovered that Jane … Continue reading →

Posted in reading lists, reviews | Tagged | 6 Comments

catching lives

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

I don’t hear much about biographies anymore–or autobiographies. Now it’s all about memoir. Not the whole life but a slant on it. Still, biographies are being written. A Pulitzer Prize is given each year for a biography. In 2010, the prize went … Continue reading →

Posted in life | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

look again

Posted on August 23, 2010 by

In a 1984 Paris Review interview, the writer James Baldwin said the following: I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and … Continue reading →

Posted in details, shapes, writing | Tagged | 14 Comments

toes

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

I painted my toenails orange for June, green for July. They’re sporting yellow polish at the moment. I broke three of my toes growing up–one when I put my bare feet down to stop a swing. My second toes are … Continue reading →

Posted in character, details | Tagged | 8 Comments

out my window: 8/18/10

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

“let me catch sight of you again going over the wall and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures guttering on a screen let my words find their own places in the silence after the animals” from … Continue reading →

Posted in Columbus GA, poetry, the day | Tagged | 16 Comments

out my window: 8/17/10

Posted on August 17, 2010 by
Posted in fall, leaves, the day | Tagged | 6 Comments

crossing borders

Posted on August 14, 2010 by

Black Maps, a collection of stories by David Jauss, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 1995 (Lorrie Moore/judge). These nine stories–with only one in present tense and the rest in past, and four in third person … Continue reading →

Posted in awards and prizes, continuous life, craft of writing, mfa, stories, structure | Tagged | 8 Comments

alone with all that could happen

Posted on August 11, 2010 by

Alone With All That Could Happen is a collection of 7 craft essays by writer David Jauss. I had read some of them when they were first published in AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, but it was time to read them again. … Continue reading →

Posted in craft of writing, mfa | Tagged | 11 Comments

You Are Not Here

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

David Jauss is my adviser this semester at Vermont College. During the residency, each student creates a reading list, which the adviser must approve. The books on the list may change as writing issues come up, but it’s a place … Continue reading →

Posted in mfa, poetry, reading lists | Tagged | 12 Comments