Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 57
March 22, 2013
"Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the..."
- Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
March 21, 2013
magnoliapearl:
ohcorny:
pikeisaman:
Are you sick of looking...
The Children's Hour (1961)
Nightmare On Elm Street (1985)
Maidchen In Uniform (1931)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Are you sick of looking up lists of queer movies and getting the same five movies you’ve seen hundreds of times? Are you pretty sure that at least half of the movies of this so called “100 best gay movies ever” are pornos in disguise?
Well I dunno if I can help you, but I made a list and you should look at it.
SYD’S BIG QUEER MOVIE LIST (I SPENT FOREVER DOING THIS PLEASE CARE)
Please reblog this instead, well, so that we don’t end up with different versions of the same list flying around.
Interview at Story Carnivores
Brian Rowe asks about CAM POST, gay YA, MFA/PhD in CW Programs, and lots more. Here’s part 1: 
http://storycarnivores.com/2013/03/21/interview-emily-m-danforth-part-1/
March 20, 2013
Powell's Books: I was being driven up some steep gravel roads in a pickup truck, above...
An excerpt from an essay about the research Peter Rock did for his new novel, THE SHELTER CYCLE. (I, for one, am very excited about it.)
I was being driven up some steep gravel roads in a pickup truck, above Paradise Valley, in Montana. This was back in 2007. Below, the Yellowstone River snaked back and forth, Highway 89 running parallel. The driver of the truck was a man I’d just met, a friend of a friend; somewhat taciturn, he…
March 18, 2013
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": What Empathy Is
I was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama last week, teaching a group of students about how to write difference into our fiction. I thought about how we teach many things in the creative writing workshop—how to read and think like a writer, how to bring discipline to the wilder of…
March 16, 2013
"No plotting in my fiction doesn’t mean that nothing happens. It means I don’t plan what I’m going to..."
No plotting in my fiction doesn’t mean that nothing happens. It means I don’t plan what I’m going to withhold.
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How to do without plot without panic? Having a goal is different from a plot. Having a train station where you’ve decided your last scene must take place, or knowing the heroine must overdose is not plot. On cloudless days, Native Americans used to find their way through high grass by shooting an arrow toward the sun and heading toward where it dropped. That’s how I’d like to think I progress—without losing too many arrows.
- Terese Svoboda (via mttbll)
March 9, 2013
artchipel:
Tumblr Artist
Jean-Baptiste Courtier | on Tumblr...
Jean-Baptiste Courtier | on Tumblr (France) - Natation synchronisée
Jean-Baptiste Courtier is a young photographer working and living in Paris. Originally from North of France, he arrived in Paris searching for something, but without any precise idea. After working in radio stations and sound studios, it was when he started working in a model agency that his interest for photography was born. Courtier’s work corresponds to something fun that he dreams to see in real life. He shoot his pictures in a traditional way with a large format camera, 4x5 films. His photographs aim to capture something he has done in the real life and represent a personal challenge, like a performance or a magic tric. Courtier wishes to express through his work some kind of poetry: “Frankly, I’m quite égoistic in the way I work. I want to have the pleasure of recreating the images that exist in my mind and prefer to let the viewers to create his/her own story around the picture.” Please visit artist’s website or follow his Tumblr for more discoveries.
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