This essay about Thomas Wolfe’s writers block cure was written for the sequel to “Writers Gone Wild,” “Writers Gone Wilder: The Sequeling” (or whatever it will be). Enjoy! It’s difficult to believe that Thomas Wolfe had writer’s block. This is the man whose first draft of Look Homeward, Angel clocked in at 330,000 words, and […]
This just came in the mail, a cultural history of Ruritania that was published this year. This’ll help me out on the Complete, Annotated Secret of Chimney’s project.
Work on the Thurber book is proceeding apace. Most of the footnotes are done, and I’m working on a map of Columbus, Ohio, when Thurber lived there. One biographer mentioned that his family moved no less than 14 times during his childhood, yet apart from a few years spent in Washington, D.C., they stayed within […]