A young Romanian writer reflects on how he learned to suck it up and just keep writing . . .
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Recent Posts
- My blog has been reborn
- How should you read a book?
- Review: Ted Kerasote’s new dog book
- Echoing a familial refrain
- Joe Bonomo on sex, spirit & implication
- James Thurber on memory & memoir
- Reading my father’s book at last
- Good writers
- Noted: T. C. Boyle on creativity
- To plan or to plunge?
- Fiona Maazel on loneliness
- Learning the craft, part three
- Learning the craft, part two
- Learning the craft, part one
- Celebrating my book contract
Draft No. 4’s bookshelf
- Andre Dubus III Annie Dillard Anthony Lane Archibald MacLeish Barack Obama Bill Roorbach Bob Dylan Cheryl Strayed Cormac McCarthy Darin Strauss Dave Eggers David Foster Wallace David Shields Dinty W. Moore Donald M. Murray Eckhart Tolle Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty F. Scott Fitzgerald Flannery O'Connor Ford Maddox Ford Frank Conroy George Orwell Gregory Orr Heather Sellers Herman Melville Janet Malcolm Janice Gary Joan Didion John D'Agata John Irving John Jeremiah Sullivan John McPhee John Updike John V. Wylie Jonah Lehrer Jonathan Franzen Joyce Carol Oates Kindle Lanie Tankard Lee Gutkind Lee Martin Malcolm Gladwell Mary Karr Michael Pollan Natalie Goldberg Norman Mailer Olga Khotiashova Paul Auster Paulette Bates Alden Peter Elbow Philip Gerard Philip Roth Rainer Maria Rilke Richard Ford Richard Gilbert Richard Todd Robert Frost Shirley Hershey Showalter Sven Birkerts T.C. Boyle Terry Gross Thomas Larson Tim O'Brien Tobias Wolff Tom Gilbert Tom Wolfe Tracy Kidder Truman Capote Verlyn Klinkenborg Virginia Woolf Vivian Gornick Vladimir Nabokov William Styron William Zinsser
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- aesthetics
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My wild summer reading & revising
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Draft No. 4 · Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction & Reviews: an inquiry by Richard Gilbert
