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Author Archives: Antoine
Why I Gave You that Blank Stare, and Why You Gave Me One, Too
When you publish a book, and people read it, and they want to say nice things to you about it (or maybe they’re avoiding saying mean things about it), they often tell you that some part of your work reminds them of some other book they’ve read. These encounters can be some of the most [...]
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Letter to a Young Writer, in the Form of a Top Ten List
Dear 23 year-old Antoine Wilson, Here’s a list of ten things you might consider but probably won’t: 10. When you pick up the pen, put down the pipe. 9. If something you’ve written is blowing your mind, it’s probably a cliche. You just don’t know it yet. 8. Your most interesting material is all around [...]
Posted in L-I-V-I-N, Reading, Typign 4 Comments
Hero to Zero
Ever find yourself comparing your work to the work of some master you’ve always admired? The worst possible time to do this (and therefore the time it’s likeliest to happen) is when you’re working on a first draft. The double-worst time is when those first draft pages are the middle pages of a novel, when [...]
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On Method
Sometimes people ask me how I write. My stock response is “ass in chair.” Phillip Roth said that the real reason writers want to know other writers’ methods is to find out whether they’re as crazy as they themselves are. I’ve always been curious for more pragmatic reasons. Here’s a piece of my method. Every [...]
Yeps
No one who thinks that he can write like Nabokov has anything intelligent to say about him. From DG Myers’ blog post Ten Rules for Criticism.
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Startled Awake by Ernie’s Bugle
I’ve got friends who, at age 20 (or 30) could tell you right away what their favorite kids books were (and are), but for some reason I’ve never been that interested in kids’ books, at least not since I was a kid. I have trouble remembering, too, what my favorite books were. Maybe it’s a [...]
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Jesus, Vincent Van Gogh, and Captain Kirk
Live together in the City of Industry and spend their days watching TV.
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So long, dirty oughts…
The Interloper has been included in L Magazine’s Books of the Decade. Which is awesome.
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Halforism