09/01/2014
Looking for a fun travel/adventure memoir? You might like Moby-Duck!
Moby-Duck | PEN American Center
At the outset, I felt no need to acquaint myself with the six degrees of freedom. I’d never heard of the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch. I liked my job and loved my wife and was inclined to agree with Emerson that travel is a fool’s paradise. I just wanted to learn what had really happened, where…
08/29/2014
Famous Authors Narrate The Funny Pages.
Peanuts by Jane Austen Miss Lucy van Pelt, young, witty, and handsome, found it unavoidable that she play a game of foot-ball with Mr. Charles ...
08/29/2014
Need something beautiful to read? We suggest Knoxville:Summer of 1915 by James Agee.
James Agee’s Masterwork: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | David Paul Kirkpatrick's Living In The...
Jame Agee's moving "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" appears here in its entirety. It has been set to music and appears in the prologue to "A Death in the Family".
08/28/2014
Michael Busk is a passionate and published creative writer. He will lead our Real Life/Real Wine workshop. Read one of his short stories below.
William Wallace: Story
A Child, After Witnessing the Ex*****on of William Wallace, in London, August 23, 1305: Me and da and wee Will walking back in the heat and the stink, hollering still in my ears the calls and the c...
08/26/2014
"[Writing] forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily, you know. So if you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it."
--Joan Didion from an interview in The Believer
The Believer - Joan Didion
From the Believer magazine.
08/25/2014
A Memoir Is Not a Status Update
I wonder what would have become of me if I had come of age as a writer during these years of living out loud.
08/25/2014
Exercise your writing muscle with our workshop RealLife/Real Wine!
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do.
WRITE EVERY DAY Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Th...
08/16/2014
The pen is mightier than the sword.
08/16/2014
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Write This Way
Guided Explorations in Creative Writing