Read Two: Severed heads, runaway PR, math gender, minimalism
How to Take a Picture of a Severed Head Or not. IS is working very hard to manage its media presence, and it’s working. By Sebastian Meyer and Alicia P.Q. Whitm...
Tag: Ernest Hemingway
When Marquez Saw Hemingway & the Wine Guy Wept Over a Nobel
In wake of Marquez’s death, reposting this, which originally ran Nov 22, 2011. RIP, GMM. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Hemingway 32 year...
A Talk on Writing About Young Brains, Mon, April 7 at University of Vermont
Monday, April 7, 5 pm, at the University of Vermont, I’ll talk about how to shape a mess of reading and reporting into a magazine story — specifica...
Uncommon Reading – Eudora Welty on Virginia Woolf on Hemingway
One of the underrated pleasures of the internet is all the old stuff we can now read — goodies that 20 years ago you could read only by going to a major l...
How To Pick Apart Great Writing: Joan Didion on Ernest Hemingway
Can you pick apart the magic in a great piece of writing? No — but you can learn a lot trying. Watch Joan Didion, back in 1998 in The New Yorker, do so with one...
How I Write: With Spies, Revolvers, Whiskey, and Luck
The good folks at Matter and Medium asked me how I got started writing and how I write. My answer, which they first ran at Medium (and an enormous photo), is re...
George Clooney Robs A Bank With a Lie & A Smile, and Other Scenes In Media Res
Elmore Leonard likes to start scenes right in the middle of the scene, as he does, more or less, in the scene above from Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of...
The Only Time Gabriel Garcia Marquez Saw Ernest Hemingway
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Hemingway 32 years earlier in Paris: For a fraction of a second, as always seemed to be the case, I found myself...
Hemingway, Bach, Led Zeppelin: Neuron Culture’s Musical October
‘Twas an aural month at the blog. Here are October 2011’s biggest hits at Neuron Culture: Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech I hav...
Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech
After this year's Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, blogger David Dobbs received an audio clip that seized his heart: a 1954 recordin...