“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.” — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
