Category Archives: experimental
Noted: ‘Steal Like an Artist’
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.—Steal Like an Artist Austin Kleon is a writer and visual artist—collage and sketches and mashups—whose magical new … Continue reading
Filed under aesthetics, discovery, experimental, flow, NOTED, postmodernism
Review: Dillard’s ‘Living By Fiction’
Living By Fiction by Annie Dillard. Harper Perennial. 192 pages. The cultural assumption is that the novel is the proper home of significance and that nonfiction is mere journalism. This is interesting because it means that in two centuries our … Continue reading
Filed under aesthetics, Dillard—Saint Annie, experimental, fiction, journalism, narrative, postmodernism, REVIEW, structure, style
Real art for our virtual times
David Shields’s audacious Reality Hunger has provoked much discussion and many mixed notices. Thomas Larson, journalist, essayist, and critic, has just weighed in in Agni Online, wittily calling the book “an improvised explosive device applied to the sacred cow of … Continue reading
Filed under aesthetics, creative nonfiction, experimental, fiction, narrative
Honesty in memoir, ver. 3.0
The etymology of fiction is from fingere (participle fictum), meaning “to shape, fashion, form, or mold.” Any verbal account is a fashioning or shaping of events. Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable. The memoir rightly belongs to the imaginative world, … Continue reading
Filed under emotion, essay-collage, essay-lyric, evolutionary psychology, existentialism, experimental, honesty, journalism, memoir, narrative, NOTED, subjectivity, theme
Dinty’s Google Maps essay
Not especially funny or witty myself, perhaps that’s why I admire those who are: I must have opened my blog a half dozen times today to read the first sentence by Anthony Lane in the post below this. Then tonight … Continue reading
Filed under design, essay-narrative, experimental, humor, Lane—Prince Anthony, memoir, NOTED
