Post tagged with writing

  • Christian Publishing University Launched!

    September 01st, 201105:07 PM ET
    By Audra Jennings
    FORT WORTH, TX—Today marks a giant step forward in the Christian publishing industry as a team of highly experienced industry professionals have launched a major new Web site—ChristianPublishingUniversity.com. Organized as an online university campus, the site is intended to become a one-stop clearinghouse of trainings, resources, and networkin...

  • How Should I Read This Novel

    November 05th, 200911:53 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    I just finished Pat Conroy's new book, South of Broad. When I read Conroy I get so caught up in the language-in the cadence and tempo of it-that I sometimes lose track of story. His style, at least for me, can overwhelm the plot. As a result, I find myself wallowing around in all this glorious construction, content to soak in the beauty of how the ...

  • Rational Creatures, Moved by Emotion

    September 24th, 200910:47 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    Arnold Weinstein-the author, scholar, and winsome English professor-brings two fundamental beliefs to his assessment of literature: That feeling is the basic, invisible fact of life. And therefore, the basic but unacknowledged fact of literature.  Novels, poetry, and short stories, Weinstein informs his readers, provide a gateway t...

  • The Reason We Read

    June 21st, 200908:09 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In his book, How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom, the respected literary critic, says that there is no single way to read well, but that there is a prime reason. "Information," Bloom says, is "endlessly available to us..." Then he rhetorically asks, "Where shall we find wisdom?" Bloom unknowingly underscores the urgency of Proverbs 3: "Blessed is th...
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