A couple of Pale King odds & ends: N+1 reruns Benjamin Kunkel‘s astute DFW memoriam, and Jonathan Raban tackles the religious side of the Wallace weltanschauung for the NYRB. (Whither Wyatt Mason?)
More Pale King
“Neglect everything else.”
"I’ve got to be writing. I have a few ways to make sure I can carve out time. Part one: Neglect everything else. Part two: Get disciplined." David Mitchell writes about writing and the poetry of James Wright for The Atlantic. Pair with his story in tweets, "The Right Sort," and Brian Ted Jones's Millions review of The Bone Clocks.
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Bamboozled
Minstrelsy lives: At Reuters' Oddly Enough, blackface in Belgium.
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73 Ways to Become a Better Writer
For aspiring writers who prefer their advice in bulk, Mary Jaksch at the Huffington Post gives 73 suggestions for becoming a better writer.
Elections and All
Recommended Reading: John Williams suggests some reads as we prepare for the presidential primaries.
Invisible Together
"It was a remarkable scene, to witness young people collectively shatter one another’s sense of social isolation." Clint Smith for The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog about teaching Invisible Man to a high school class full of undocumented immigrants.
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Mercury in Retrograde
"Creativity is back in the house in the second half of the month, so quit your grumbling and get back to work." These writer horoscopes for the month of March will have you crushing through writers block and haggling over your contracts in no time.
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