Jul
17
What is Nature? An Introduction
It’s been three months since my last newsletter.
This is a lapse that speaks to a myriad of happenings,
5 min read
Kathryn Silverstein
Apr
17
The Music of the Work
“The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective
excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little
4 min read
Feb
04
Making it Last
“I would like to see writing as an expansive field. Unfortunately, I only tend
to see it that way in
4 min read
Dec
02
On Wish-Granting Shops and a Winter Course
“You can take as much time as you like to create your own world.” —Xxxholic
manga, by CLAMP
During my
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Nov
22
A Matter of Longing, a Zine, and a New Course!
“At this point, we have all of the information we need to create a change; it
isn’t a matter
3 min read
Sep
30
The Outside Edge
“I kept pushing at my own limitations and at the limits of science fiction. That
is what the practice of
3 min read
Aug
19
Longing as a Structure
“Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying,
mapping, even realms that are yet to
3 min read
Jul
14
On Writing and Other Speculative Witcheries
“I tell my students all the time: writing fiction is an exercise in giving a
shit—an exercise in finding
3 min read
Jul
14
On Freewriting
“As in everything, so in writing I am almost afraid of going too far. What can
this be? Why? For
4 min read
Jul
14
On Process as Product
“I wanted, from the beginning, to write a monstrous book. Something small yet
forceful, like a talisman. I mean the
3 min read