by Mike Cobb | Mar 13, 2022 | writings-blogs
Here’s a great article on Literary Hub’s site by Kathleen Stone on writers who debuted after the age of sixty. I hope you enjoy it. Kathleen Stone is a writer whose debut, They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, is out now from Cynren Press.
by Mike Cobb | Mar 2, 2022 | writings-blogs
Four great pieces from past issues of The Paris Review, one of my favorite literary magazines. Enjoy!
When Edward Hirsch spoke to Susan Sontag, in between her trips to Sarajevo, for a 1995 Art of Fiction interview, he noted that her work seemed “haunted by war.” She said, “I could answer that a writer is someone who pays attention to the world.” This week, we’re rereading a poem by Claribel Alegria and a story by Nadine Gordimer, looking back at a portfolio of the writer Ryszard Kapuściński’s photographs, watching the news, and considering what it means to pay attention.
by Mike Cobb | Feb 13, 2022 | writings-blogs
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower When will it end? Book banning is back. Texas State...
by Mike Cobb | Feb 10, 2022 | writings-blogs
Call me old-school, but I’ll take a good, old-fashioned print book over an ebook any day. Yes, I own a Kindle. And yes, I use it on occasion, especially when traveling (which I’ve done little of since the beginning of COVID). But I will always prefer...
by Mike Cobb | Feb 5, 2022 | writings-blogs
As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. This is the only known recording in existence of Virginia Woolf. By Fiona Macdonald Seventy-five years have passed since the British writer died. To mark the anniversary, we...
by Mike Cobb | Jan 25, 2022 | writings-blogs
Here’s a great piece by Emma Knight on the legacy of a literary icon, Virginia Woolf. Knight wrote this piece on the 140th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s birth, January 25th. We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf Check it out. Mike...
