Writers are encouraged to write in scene rather than in summary of scene. You are asked to jump into the dynamic process, to start anywhere along the storyline, ignoring the problems of structure and skipping the complex difficulties of finding your story’s “beginning.” The idea is that you write the scenes of your story’s story first, […]
August 28th, 2015
How the Yearlong Works
August 18th, 2015
Just Terrific: A Remembrance of James Salter
Jim Salter arriving at Maria Matthiessen’s for his party Here’s my Huffington piece from last month written right after we lost Jim Salter. He died while working out at the gym ten days after his gala ninetieth birthday party. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-vandenburgh/just-terrific-a-remembran_b_7641084.html
May 31st, 2015
Mildred Howard at the Richmond Art Center
Art as Weapon, Art as Shelter Mildred Howard is one of those celebrated, successful, highly influential visual artists upon whom the most vaunted prizes have been bestowed but who has somehow escaped wide swathes of the American museum-going public’s notice. If it’s a given that this woman’s work is important, why hasn’t the word got […]
September 10th, 2014
Don Carpenter’s No-Longer-Lost Last Book Fridays at Enrico’s
My piece on my friendship with Don Carpenter during the time he was writing his magnificent and surprising Fridays at Enrico’s is up on the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-vandenburgh/don-carpenters-fridays-at_b_5206931.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=4901093b
