por Ersun Warncke | Dic 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Race, love and what to do with God This week I’m thrilled to share an analysis of one of my favorite writers — one of the great thinkers, speakers and humanists of the 20th century: James Baldwin.Enjoy!
por Ersun Warncke | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Appreciating Didion’s 1968 masterpieceTeaching requires intimate knowledge of a piece of writing, immersion in its world. When it’s great writing, this is a great pleasure. When it’s Joan Didion-circa-1968, there is almost nowhere else I’d rather be.Although...
por Ersun Warncke | Nov 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
An appreciation of Oscar Wilde Appreciation begins with understanding.I hadn’t appreciated quite to what extent until I visited Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum after reading Laura Cumming’s transcendent memoir Thunderclap. She wrote — lovingly, evocatively...
por Ersun Warncke | Nov 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
For all the storms that comeOn Tuesday, October 29, my home near Valencia, Spain, was lashed with the most extraordinary storm I’ve ever experienced. More than 220 people died. Associated Press: Unprecedented Floods in Spain As the scope of the tragedy began to sink...
por Ersun Warncke | Nov 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
International humanities and social sciences journalHaving just weathered the storm of a lifetime, I await the election outcome with a similar sense of dread and urgency. Urgency, not dread, must drive our actions. Hence why I’ve chosen today to announce the launch of...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Anne Lamott, 1994Key wordsWriting, writer’s craft, creative writing, narrative writing, writing teacher, books about writing, writer’s life, personal writing, writing for beginnersLast week, I wrote about Steve Almond’s shiny new tome Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Steve Almond, 2024Key wordsWriting, writer’s craft, creative writing, narrative writing, writing teacher, practical writing advice, personal essays, short stories, fiction writing Craft books aren’t supposed to make you cry, are they?Steve Almond’s DIY Manual for the...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
William Zinsser, reissued 2016Key wordsWriting, nonfiction, writer’s craft, creative writing, narrative writing, interdisciplinary writing, writing teacher, practical writing advice, professional writing First published in 1976, On Writing Well is a book that would...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
The I’s don’t have itAs a college application essay coach, my inbox is inundated with personal essays. All of them rife, riddled, replete with a construction that starts to feel like a hammer hitting a nail: I + verb.I think. I did. I was. I believe. I...
por Ersun Warncke | Oct 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Ditch the he said/she saidThough ambivalently fond of Ernest Hemingway, one thing I can’t — won’t — argue with is the man’s approach to dialogue. As much as any 20th century writer, we have Papa H to thank for excising the clutter of he/she/they...
