I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, a… - Jill Talbot
Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, a…
- Jill Talbot
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are? - Jill Talbot
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?
Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voi… - Jill Talbot
Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voi…
We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives. - Jill Talbot
We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.
One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own. I feel that way when I … - Jill Talbot
One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own. I feel that way when I …
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, … - Jill Talbot
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, …
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come ac… - Jill Talbot
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come ac…
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think abo… - Jill Talbot
I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think abo…
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or n… - Jill Talbot
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or n…
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