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Category Archives: Parties
Lauren Groff and the Art of Joyful Writing
I know there are others who will blog more eloquently and completely about the Fly-By Writer’s weekend with Lauren Groff (see Allison Barker’s excellent post), but I’m fresh off her … Continue reading
A Glass, A Class, A Free Flash Pass
I promise, if you read to the end, this will all make sense… 1. A Glass This Saturday, January 12, the latest winner of the Stories On Stage/Lighthouse Writers Page … Continue reading
Start the New Year Off Right at the Lighthouse Writers Open House and Faculty Reading
If you’ve met me, you know how much I love Lighthouse. And if you haven’t met me, I hope to meet you soon so I can tell you what a … Continue reading
Member Dispatch: Playing it Cool with Cheryl Strayed
Stolen from Lighthouser Carolyn Daughters’s awesome blog. A bunch of us had drinks on the front porch of Lighthouse Writers Workshop last night. The “bunch” included Cheryl Strayed, author of … Continue reading
Note from a reluctant blogger: Inner geek, take wing!
Occasionally at Lighthouse I’ll target an innocent writer type with what seems, superficially, a reasonable request: Could you blog this and send it to me? This is a way to ensure, quite … Continue reading
About the Peculiarities of Lux: Three Observations
I offer up to you three observations, over the course of next few days, about our next Writer’s Studio guest: poet Thomas Lux. Observation #1: Low culture transcends into high—often … Continue reading
Greg Campbell digs deep
A thrilling thing happened after our recent NPR underwriting campaign. We received a phone call from Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds and other notable works of narrative nonfiction on diamond heists, … Continue reading
Mr. Everything: 3 Questions for Alexi Zentner
It’s easy to envy Alexi Zentner’s abundant gifts—his lyrical flourishes, his workmanlike output, his Canadian-ness. It might start with just falling in love with his prose, encountering, say, his story … Continue reading
Black is the New Black
Writers and readers tend to spend a lot of time alone. Free time is precious. The day job sucks up enough time and then there are pets to be walked, … Continue reading
