<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
On Friday, November 6, Jeremy Schmall and I hosted Jen Hyde, Heather Christle, Joshua Cohen, Diane Williams, and Matthew Rohrer at the Lillian Vernon Writers House at NYU, for a reading in celebration of AGR ‘09. The audio of the reading is now available online here (.mp3). After you listen to our event, you should [...]
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Jeremy Schmall and I will be hosting an Agriculture Reader event tomorrow at the NYU Lillian Vernon Writers House (58 West 10th Street). We will be presenting Ag alums Heather Christle, Joshua Cohen, Diane Williams, and Matthew Rohrer. The reading starts at 5:00. There is no cover, and there will be refreshments provided. Copies of [...]
Lovers' Last Go Around (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... Sayers Ellis & Wendy S. Walters rock the mic. Only at Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718) 302-3770 "L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan FREE! Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their work. Friday, November 6, 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm 58 West 10th Street Writers from the Agriculture Reader Heather Christle, Joshua...
The Lovely Arc (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... Friday, November 6 5 PM Agriculture Reader Salon at NYU with Joshua Cohen, Matthew Rohrer, and Diane Williams Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House 58 West 10th Street New York, NY More information Friday, November 13 8 PM Amherst Books with Christopher DeWeese 8 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... things, the current Harper’s (Richard Rodriguez’s “Twilight of the American Newspaper” cover) has Diane Williams in the READINGS section and Christine Schutt as the fiction feature. Seems to be another piece of Christine’s new novel. Good times!
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I took a writing workshop with Diane Williams , and she had a very distinct style of editing prose. Her method was like pruning a tree: you pare the dead branches in order to let the viable parts flourish. Find the sentences that sizzle, excise them from the masses of empty phrases, rearrange them into a working narrative, and then set to work with that skeleton. At the end, if you’re...
