Advice for Writers

This blog provides advice to writers on their literary work. See the end of this post for links on these topics: How can you get the full benefit of workshops? How can you work best with your mentor? What, when, and how should you publish?

Thursday, September 12, 2019

The Influence of East Asian Literature on Western Poetry: Part 2: The Akhmatova Bridge

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In the first blog in this series, I talked about the early French translations of anthologies that introduced Western fans of literature to...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

The Influence of East Asian Literature on Western Poetry: Part 1—Le Japonisme and Le Livre de Jade

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The influence of East Asian literature on Western poetry is international and widespread. This influence bridges a variety of artistic move...
Friday, August 2, 2019

The Limits of “Write What You Know”: Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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I recently listened to the wonderful audiobook of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey , a novella that won the Pulitzer Prize for ...
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Zack Rogow is an award-winning author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books or plays. Zack’s memoir about his dad, the writer Lee Rogow, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. He is available for creative writing manuscript critiques. You can contact him at zrogow at berkeley dot edu. His other recent books include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio, and The Number Before Infinity. You can watch a brief documentary on his writing or watch him read on YouTube. He's the editor of an anthology of U.S. poetry, The Face of Poetry, published by University of California Press. The entries in this blog are Copyright © 2011 to 2026 by Zack Rogow.
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