The links I’ve been saving for a snowy day:
- In the latest episode of Crossover Appeal, I talk about my new bookish obsession, The Wee Free Men and the rest of the Discworld series.
- Wahoowa for Margot Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures!
- Because as fun as buying books is, giving books away can feel really good.
- The Penderwicks and bibliotherapy.
- Langston Hughes feels particularly necessary these days.
- Famous writers on revision.
- Playing around with writing exercises.
- On sharing banned books with your kids.
- Rita Dove speaks the truth.
- Psyched feels like the wrong word for how I feel about The Handmaid’s Tale adaptation.
- Finding the balance between writing and life, and how little actions build up.
- I need all of these bookish puzzles.
- Be gentle with yourself.
- And to keep calm, take a few tips from to a bomb disposal expert.
“You ask whether I should continue to write if no one but myself would ever see my work. There is no reason to believe that anyone will ever see any more of my work…We are likely to give many incorrect explanations for what we do instinctively. It is very easy for me to say that I write poetry in order to formulate my ideas and to relate myself to the world. That is why I think I write it, though it may not be the right reason. That being so, I think that I should continue to write poetry whether or not anybody ever saw it, and certainly I write lots of it that nobody ever sees. We are all busy thinking things that nobody ever knows about.”-–Wallace Stevens in a letter to editor 
