Friday I discovered on Forest Books‘ sidewalk cart an unassuming hardback with an unassuming title, Great American Detective Stories, published in June 1945 and edited by Bay Area writer Anthony Boucher. I flipped through it curious what stories made the cut, expecting the usual names and the usual reprinted titles. I did see the usual [...]
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A publisher’s note worth reflecting upon
Oct 10, 2010
11:00 am
Filed under:america, anthony boucher, books as weapons, dashiell hammett, forest books, raymond chandler, the war of ideas
Can it be taught? (part two)
Jul 29, 2010
11:08 pm
Filed under:c++, can it be taught?, creative writing industry, creative writing lore, decisions in art, pedagogy, raymond chandler
(Second post of a series; check out the first post.) Perhaps the first lesson a creative writing student should learn is that there is a craft of writing. I know I had to learn that. It’s not so obvious to the starting writer who feels poetry is poetry because it looks like poetry, or one [...]
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