Isak (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Jessica Winter at Slate wonders about the literary legacy of Ralph Ellison and Truman Capote after they each penned their best and most successful books. While both talked about and worked on a new opus, both of them left their...
The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Slate has a really interesting article talking about the differences between procrastination and writer's block, as seen through the struggles of Capote and Ellison. After reading it, I think it's safe for me to say that I've almost never suffered from true writer's block. Certainly, I've reached points where I didn't know exactly what was coming next, but they've never lasted for very long. I think...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
On Slate , Jessica Winter meditates on Ralph Ellison, Truman Capote, and the difference between writer's block and procrastination. Joan Acocella wrote about those awful blocks , too; not entirely tangentially, John Lahr wrote movingly about stage fright . Donald Barthelme's narrator in "The Dolt" saved me from the anxious swirl that might have prevented my writing this headline, or indeed this post...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
All week, Slate has been running a series of articles on the topic of procrastination, and Jessica Winter has contributed a compelling piece about authors who were famous procrastinators, notably Truman Capote and Ralph Ellison. There’s a heartbreaking moment in Gerald Clarke’s biography Capote when the writer, having finally completed the debilitating process of writing In [...]
