Comments for Philip Graham

Comment on Point of Entry, Point of Departure by Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:42:18 +0000

Hi!
your new book is on my coffee table, thanks to Alma. I hope to review it soon at Miriam’s Well (http://miriamswell.wordpress.com) And am about to link to you. Great reading!

Comment on All Writing is Travel Writing by Writer Abroad

Writer Abroad — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:27:12 +0000

Great post. I love the thought that whether we live abroad or never leave home that we are all travel writers in our own life’s journey.

Comment on Any Novel’s Negative Twenty Questions by Mayumi Shimose Poe

Mayumi Shimose Poe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:48:12 +0000

Ahhh, lovely! And I do remember the negative twenty questions concept from last semester, when you shared it with me and it made a bright light go AHA in my head. MIXED METAPHOR, I KNOW!

Love this blog. Love that you let us put our fingers on the pulse of your mind.

Comment on News & Updates by Luna Digest, 1/26 - Fictionaut Blog

Luna Digest, 1/26 - Fictionaut Blog — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:55:23 +0000

[...] side of McSweeney’s, their new issue will no doubt be something to get a hold of. 9L Editor Philip Graham blogs about the contents of the new issue—work from Ander Monson, Benjamin Percy, Viet Dinh, John Warner, Cathy Day—and is [...]

Comment on Nearly Three Miles of Invention by Ben

Ben — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:46:59 +0000

Oh shit, it’s like you made a discovery with that line, “the tiny portion of us that is available to others in any daily face-to-face contact.” That really shook me. It helps explain the meaning of friendship and love too, that such things have meaning because those people (friends, partners, spouses) are the ones that can see farther back. What a great post.

Comment on Nearly Three Miles of Invention by Midge

Midge — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:32:30 +0000

I love the notion of “three miles of invention” and can very much relate to that as a fiction writer (for me, a story always begins with that little sliver of a character or situation, and then the fun begins when I get to invent everything that came before — and after).
Thanks for a great post!

Comment on Facting the Invisible in Nonfiction by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson

Kathleen Cassen Mickelson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:18:28 +0000

The comparison of choosing a fact from the past to choosing a mirror from a hall full of them is a wonderful image! I’ve long thought of memories as my internal box of slides – sometimes I have to squint and say, “what is that?” Memory and truth are malleable.

Comment on Facting the Invisible in Nonfiction by Ira Sukrungruang

Ira Sukrungruang — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:23:55 +0000

I’ve often told my students that what they dream or day-dream or imagine reveals their true characters, their true desires. Stephen Kuusisto, author of Planet of the Blind, said once that daydreams are often about being rescued. That has stuck with me for the longest time.

Comment on Facting the Invisible in Nonfiction by Kyle Minor

Kyle Minor — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:48:10 +0000

Good post, Philip!

Comment on Facting the Invisible in Nonfiction by So Many Thought Bubbles: The Imagined Life in Nonfiction « BREVITY’s Creative Nonfiction Blog

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:53:26 +0000

[...] Philip Graham offers up a thoughtful post on our imagined lives and how they might become part of our nonfiction, by looking at the work of Jenny Boully and the writing exercise Boully contributed to the new book of nonfiction exercises, Now Write! Nonfiction, edited by Sherry Ellis. Here is an excerpt, or you can jump to the entire blog post here: [...]