Tag page - Marcel Proust

I’m usually very conscious of my deadlines when I write but only because I want time to read what I write over and over, sometimes aloud, and to change it here, there, everywhere I can make it sound better. Mostly, I only change for rhythm, what sounds good to my ears.    I have no idea...

Make room for good writing even when the times make bad sentences seem good enough  “I am a complexly horizontal author,” says Truman Capote. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy.”  It’s never...

An impossible conversation on loss because, like tears, a quote from some of our favorite writers can wash away our sorrows Illustration by Ariana Maralit I’m on a late-night drive, along an empty street, listening to  The Smoking Popes . The 1990s pop punk band from Chicago is...