On Yates’s “The Best of Everything” By DeWitt Henry, Contributing Editor I first read Richard Yates’s short story “The Best of Everything,” some fifty years ago. Yates was in his prime then as the promising author of Revolutionary Road, which he had just followed with the collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, where this story appears.…
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The Benefits of Entering a Writing Contest
Courtesy of The Puritan Senior Editors For every literary magazine, a prize. Our lit culture’s thick with them. Whether you’re an ardent submitter, see them as a necessary evil to keep literary ships afloat, or you love to hate them, writing contests can often feel more common than the periodicals they support. Here at The Puritan,…
From Novelist to Poet
On Logophilia and Process By Stephen Mead See his work in Vol IV. #7 Just as some have a natural proclivity for math or sports, I have had one for actual words since an early age. “Chrysalis” was a particular favorite, the name of an old Jethro Tull record – I remember the icon on the…
Site Review: Richard Gilbert's Draft No. 4
The Literary Memoir “Gilbert explores the enterprise of literary memoir in particular, and of good writing in general.” By DeWitt Henry, contributing editor Blogs can serve as anthologies-in-progress or on-line learning seminars, open studios, book drafts, self-dramatizations, lectures, guided conversations, and spiritual and intellectual explorations: Richard Gilbert’s Draft No. 4 Blog and its predecessor “Narrative”…
Literary Spotlight: Dewitt Henry
What is a Jerk? “Maybe you, citizen, should be a jerk. Jerks get where they are going.” –By Dewitt Henry this appears in Vol. IV #7 A jerk is a chisler in the traffic jam, say on the Long Island expressway. Three lanes immobile, motors revving, heat shimmering, the cars barely rolling, and the line stretching out…
WTP Vol. IV #7
(click on cover to go to issue) This Month: Fashion as Fine Art, Haystacks, Dolphins and more To buy a print copy go here.
Pulling From the Screen
Writing: The Cinematic Technique By Sarah Chauncey One of the benefits of having worked in so many mediums – print, television, stage, online, stand-alone interactive and film – is that I’ve learned a variety of storytelling techniques transferable between platforms. The combination of having been a stage manager, TV writer/producer and film critic contributed to my becoming…
Fictional Characters and Autobiography– Part 1
Writing Character: One Most Like Yourself By Elissa Field The impetus for this article arose from a small tangent during a fabulous workshop I participated in with author Ann Hood. Among stories I’ve worked on in the past, I knew who my trickiest, most elusive or least successful characters were, but hadn’t noticed a pattern until an offhand comment…
Writing: Mind the Gap!
Plot Holes By Jon Simmonds Plot holes, those devious little blighters, have a knack of popping into existence just where you least expect them. I am not the kind of chap who outlines a novel before jumping in to the fun of writing it. Broad brush strokes, a skeleton framework of ideas and then it’s…
WTP Vol. IV #5
click on cover to go to issue “The Woven Tale Press is arguably the finest literary and art magazine to have come on the scene in several decades.” –Elisabeth Shackelford, author of Don’t Sit Here
Yossi Waxman | Novel Excerpt
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye I Die a Little From a novel by Yossi Waxman Translated by Baruch Gefen Paintings by Yossi Waxman [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was young, I believed there is life, real life, with awareness and understanding and love, and even hatred… I believed there is life in rocks and trees and flowers and…