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Monthly Archives January 2007

Relieved to Learn That I Could Still Learn: An Interview With Catherine Brady

I wanted to have an interview with Kate Brady as soon as the notions for this site hit my brain. Known in print as Catherine Brady, Kate was the instructor for one of my favorite classes in my last year at USF–a course on the teaching of writing. Kate’s enthusiasm for and seriousness about the [...]

Posted 26 January 2007 † Gordon § Authors § Interviews § Teaching § Work § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (8)

Writers on Writing

I may have slept on this a bit, but back in November NPR had a series of short interviews called Novel Ideas with writers about writing, much of it about how they deal with blocks. Of special note for me are the interviews with folks I had the privilege of working with in my MFA [...]

Posted 24 January 2007 † Gordon § Interviews § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (0)

Anti-Word Processing: The Technology of Writing 2.0

If you’re a writer there’s not a whole lot of gizmo. You only really need paper and a writing instrument to write. Sure, it helps to have Microsoft Word, a laser printer, a shiny PowerBook/MacBook Pro, etc. But, really, screw all that. Writing is one of the most lo-tech arts around. That’s one of the [...]

Posted 10 January 2007 † Gordon § Writing § Writing tech ‡ Comments (4)