Woman of Letters

Tag: faulkner

  • Waiting for the muses

    Waiting for the muses

    I think it be fair to say that the computer programming has become an obsession, and it’s definitely crowded out most of my reading. But I continue work on the writing. I’m feeling a little unmotivated. Late-stage revision can be hard for me. You can’t change too much, so the process of revising often feels…

  • Finally getting back into the swing of this reading thing; read Nightwood and As I Lay Dying.

    After being bogged down in Ulysses for half the summer, I’ve just started to read other books. I finished As I Lay Dying, which was predictably excellent. I always wonder a little bit about Faulkner. He had his famous Nobel Prize speech where he explicated his whole writing philosophy,  I decline to accept the end of…

  • Wrap Up Season: Surprisingly Good Books, Part One

    In an effort to sum up my year’s reading, I divided up the books I read into four categories: Surprisingly Good, Predictably Good, Left Me With Mixed Feelings, and BAD!!! (there’s also a fifth category of books that I didn’t feel like listing, or talking about). Then I divided up them up further by the…