I read this in my writing seminar today. I’m fairly pleased with the result, so I thought I would share it with you.
I would have to label myself as being unjustifiably forward were I to simply say, “I am interested in the concept of the orgasm” and leave it at that. This would be unacceptably [...]
Dear Writing Fellow Selection Committee,
When I applied to be a Writing Fellow during the spring semester of my freshman year, I remember having some trouble with part B. Simply put, I hadn’t done enough college writing yet. After a spending much of that fall and winter holed away in Barus and Holley, MacMillan, and the [...]
“As for what motivated me, it is quite simple; I would hope that in the eyes of some people it might be sufficient in itself. It was curiosity - the only kind of curiosity, in any case, that is worth acting upon with a degree of obstinacy: not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what [...]
Last night I was reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece on blogging as a literary form in the current Atlantic (in the dead tree edition no less, a format I now use almost exclusively in the bathroom). “Andrew” argues that blogging is to writing as jazz is to music: an improvisational form that at its best is a conversation [...]