Talking Writing

 

 

Theme for this Issue

Deep into Nature

• My Inner Nature
  Editor’s Note by Martha Nichols

 

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Natural History

In personal essays that publish on Mondays from April through June, TW authors give nature writing a spin

• Green Among the Bones by Marc Schiffman
• A Poet in the Biosphere by Kathryn Winograd
• The Petrel by Douglas Canter
• I Hear the Woods Beating by Theresa Williams
• Alivio by Inez Holger
• King of the Lake by Jeremiah Horrigan

 

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The Last Bookstore on Earth

In essays that publish on Mondays in April and May, TW writers explore another natural habitat—bookstores

• The Public Library Was My Bookstore by Emily Toth
• Playing God—With Books by Lisa Solod
• Memories Matter More Than Bookstores
  by Jai Arjun Singh

 

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Image Essays

Nature from three different vantage points

• All Creatures by Mary Dineen

• 36 Views at the Seawall: Reconstruct|Reconsider
  by Susan Denniston

• Fragile Beauty by Cynthia Staples

(to publish in June)

 

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Featured Poetry

• Dawn McGuire: Two Poems
  • Another Fragment 31
  • Juvenalia

• Mary Cresswell: Two Poems
  • Tonight Has A Thousand Eyes
  • South Sea Ghazal
  (to publish in June)

 

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Why I Write

As a young journalist I thought that stories were simply what happened. As a screenwriter I realized that we create stories by imposing narrative on the events that happen around us.” — Nora Ephron

• Enough with the Copy by Christine Grimaldi

• Boston: Why I Keep Revising by Martha Nichols

• Me, Writing by Pat Dubravna

• Hanging On by Trina Gaynon
  (to publish in May)

• Listening by Athena Kildegarde
  (to publish in June)

 

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Featured Debate

Wikipedia does a lot of good—but also a lot of bad; TW editors talk with other writers about the trouble with the online information titan

• What Should We Do About Wikipedia?
  by Martha Nichols and Lorraine Berry

 

 

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TW Interviews

J. Robert Lennon
The author of Familiar and other novels discusses teaching, bookselling, and clichés

• “Literary Fiction Is a Genre, Too”
  TW Author Interview with J. Robert Lennon
  by Lorraine Berry

 

Terry Tempest Williams
The memoirist talks about When Women Were Birds and the trouble with “nature writing”

• “Silence Is Where We Locate Our Voice”
  TW Author Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
  by Lorraine Berry (to publish in June)

 

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Featured Memoir

An overworked architect finds refuge in words, music,
and the company of Cyrus the cat

• Life on Park Street
  by Robert Boucheron

 

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TW Columns

Talking Indie
How hard should writers push booksellers?

• Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet
  by David Biddle

 

Talking Film
Baz Luhrmann’s take on The Great Gatsby fails in the most ironic way

• Nick, Old Sport, Would You Just Shut Up?
  by John Michael Bell

 

 

The World According to Fran
We raise our kids to be independent, so why is it so hard
to let them go?

• Forging the Wedge
  by Fran Cronin
  (to publish in May)

 

Yawping Wild
Dealing with the loss of a writing group friend

• An Unexpected Hero’s Journey
  by Steven Lewis
  (to publish in June)

 

 

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Artwork in this Issue

Featured Artist: Mary Dineen

• “White Flower” © Mary Dineen (April-late May cover)
• “Dragonfly” © Mary Dineen (“Green Among the Bones”)
• “Dragonfly Dew” © Mary Dineen (“Green Among the Bones”)
• “Rabbit” © Mary Dineen (Contents/Image Essay)
• “Iris” © Mary Dineen (Talking E-News: Blooming 2013)

 

Featured Artist: Cynthia Staples

• “Hosta” © Cynthia Staples (late May-June cover)
• “Virginia Spring” © Cynthia Staples (“Stories of Park Street”)
• “Virginia Leaves” © Cynthia Staples (“Stories of Park Street”)
• “Virginia Field” © Cynthia Staples (“Stories of Park Street”)
• “Snail” © Cynthia Staples (“Stories of Park Street”)

 

Other Photo and Art Credits

With “My Inner Nature”:

• Woman Reading by Stream (untitled) © Andrew Michaels; Creative Commons license
• “Look Deep Into Nature” (2011, Mexico, natural cave) © Dianne Furphy; used by permission
• “36 Views of a Seawall” (detail) © Susan Denniston; used by permission

With “A Poet in the Biosphere”:

• “Lichen” and “Caterpillar on Aspen” © Kathryn Winograd; used by permission

With “The Petrel”:

• “Leach’s Storm-Petrel” © Tim Lenz; Creative Commons license
• “Great Duck Island Lighthouse” © Justin Russell; Creative Commons license
• “Herring Gulls” © Sergey Yeliseev; Creative Commons license

With “The Public Library Was My Bookstore”:

• “Forget the Cooking!” © Phil Bradley; Creative Commons license
• “WPA Book Week Poster” © Marxchivist; Creative Commons license
• “Library Card” © Isabel Nuñez; Creative Commons license

With “Dawn McGuire: Two Poems”:

• “Sycoscapter sp.” © James Niland; Creative Commons license

With “Enough with the Copy”:

• Nora Ephron at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival © David Shankbone; Creative Commons license

With “Why Bookstores Aren’t Helping Indie Authors—Yet”:

• “Stack of Books, Den Haag” © Janelle Ward; Creative Commons license
• “Bag of Books” © Niels Linneberg; Creative Commons license
• “Self Portrait, Stack of Books Sculpture, Prague Library” © Dave Henri; Creative Commons license

With “An Unexpected Hero’s Journey”:

• “He Wrote a Lot” © Craig Elliott; Creative Commons license

 

Use of book and journal covers, album covers, website screen images, and film posters follows fair-use guidelines for promotional material.

 

 

 

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