Bill Cheng's Blog, page 105
April 24, 2013
newyorker:
Why a certain generation will always love Winnie...
Why a certain generation will always love Winnie Cooper: “It is not so much a phenomenon as a textbook example of nature versus nurture—we were all nurtured to love Winnie Cooper, and to see ourselves as her counterpart, Kevin Arnold.”
April 23, 2013
millionsmillions:
“I think I like Ah Cheng because he is crazy, and crazy people transcend the...
“I think I like Ah Cheng because he is crazy, and crazy people transcend the cultures that produce them.”
— Alan Levinovitz, “Less Mo Yan, More Ah Cheng.”
“Why is this? Mo Yan’s translator Howard Goldblatt offers an indirect explanation: “I’ll never get into the heart and mind of a Chinese writer. I have a friend in Colorado who’s a French professor. He’s French. He can go to France and be French. I couldn’t do that in China. I’m more outgoing than most Chinese. My worldview is different.” After two years of living in China I felt the same way, and it makes sense that the impenetrability of Chinese people and culture should have a literary analogue.”
“I encourage everyone to take a walk in Ah Cheng’s Chinese shoes: they are so well crafted that you’ll forget, for a moment, their country of origin.”
Oh GODDAMN it!
prose is architecture: Writing the LGBT Community
Writing the LGBT community can be hard, especially if you don’t know what you’re talking about. So to start off this post, here’s just a few things that are easily confused both with writers and with society in general.
Being gay is not a personality trait. This basically…
Great advice, which I think can be applied to writing any minority or oft-stereotyped group. People are people!
penamerican:
Happy 449th Birthday (probably…) to the Bard!
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Happy 449th Birthday (probably…) to the Bard!
bitingthebook:
BiteTheBook Review: SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG by...
BiteTheBook Review: SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG by Bill Cheng - A southern gothic odyssey
yowza
April 22, 2013
Tottenville Review » Interviews » A Conversation between Jessica Soffer and Liz Moore
“Writing, I think, is really just a way of asking the world if it likes you, if it thinks you’re good enough, if it gets you. It’s not always that, but that is a big part of it. We write for ourselves, of course, but. But but but. So, the moment in which someone does get it: finds the meaning you hoped they would, or maybe even meaning you didn’t hope for but moves you nonetheless is a really amazing thing. It’s cause for elation. We are, on good days, making something exactly like nothing else. And when it works, it can be big and it can be meaningful. That’s something I can get behind, can find great joy and pride in. Elation, for sure.”
April 21, 2013
bitingthebook:
Australian Bookshop’s fight against Amazon gets...
Australian Bookshop’s fight against Amazon gets international attention
Our fight against Amazon and declaration of a Kindle Amnestyhas received international attention,…
thewritershelpers:
picadorbookroom:
wordpainting:
I’ve...
I’ve experienced this before.
True story.
All the time. -H
