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A Personal Catalogue of the World’s Most Storied Bookstores
1/02/2022 – 1/09/2022 Weekly Poem – A January Night – by Thomas Hardy
A January Nightby Thomas Hardy The rain smites more and more,The east wind snarls and sneezes;Through the joints of the quivering doorThe water wheezes. The tip of each ivy-shoot Writhes on its neighbour's face; There is some hid dread afoot That we cannot trace. Is it the spirit astray Of the man at the house... Continue Reading →
In Our Time (BBC 4) Discusses PLATO’S Gorgias Dialogue – Rhetoric Contends With Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TuX4lrRYGE&t=2038s What is the nature of rhetoric? Does persuasion seek flattery and gratification of the audience, often at the cost of the truth? Plato, who experienced tyranny and the unjust death sentence of his teacher Socrates, examines in the GORGIAS dialogue whether those who seek to win arguments... risk losing their souls. And is PHILOSOPHY... Continue Reading →
Weekly Writing Prompt – 11/21/2021 – 11/28/2021 – How to Build Mystery
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
11/21/2021 – 11/28/2021 Weekly Poem – Autumn – by Charles Baudelaire
Poems of the Week for The Monarch Writers.com are chosen by our resident poet Jennifer Patino of ThistleThoughts.com
NPR books editor Petra Mayer has died
Petra Mayer, a beloved books editor on NPR's Culture desk, died on Saturday. She died suddenly at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland of what's believed to be a pulmonary embolism, said Nancy Barnes, NPR's senior vice president for news, in an email to staff. "Petra was NPR through and through," Barnes wrote. "To say that... Continue Reading →
Weekly Writing Prompt – 10/17/2021 – 10/24/2021 – ‘The Ghost That Haunts These Haunted Corridors, Is Lonely. So the Rain Must Pour.’
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell
Dave Eggers Interview/Essay on the Dubiety of Those Who Would Ask After Your Shit-Real-Keeping- Merits, Versus Those Who Would Say Yes to Something New and Different
I thought of this today, and wondered if it might be safely archived on the internet. I found it on this blog: duh.blog and am thankful it is still in currency. The preamble before 'This is an interview from 2000' is from duh.blog. I will keep this here as long as this site remains up,... Continue Reading →
You’re a Genius All the Time – Jack Kerouac’s 30 tips of ‘Belief and Technique for Modern Prose’ for Spontaneous Creative Writing
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joySubmissive to everything, open, listeningTry never get drunk outside yr own houseBe in love with yr lifeSomething that you feel will find its own formBe crazy dumbsaint of the mindBlow as deep as you want to blowWrite what you want bottomless from bottom of the... Continue Reading →
Inspirational Writing Advice From Charlie Kaufman | On Writing
A speech from incomparable screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman, on writing. Kaufman writes on heavy themes with films that dance with light and color. His most recent film is a Netflix original titled 'I'm thinking of ending things' and the video below the speech is a look at that film which also explores some 'trademarks'... Continue Reading →