What is "Doom Eager"?

Lorrie Moore, from "Better and Sicker"
"Martha Graham speaks of the Icelandic term "doom eager" to denote that ordeal of isolation, restlessness, caughtness and artistic experiences when he or she is sick with an idea. When a writer is doom eager, the writing won't be sludge on the page; it will give readers -- and the writer, of course, is the very first reader -- an experience they've never had before, or perhaps a little and at last the words for an experience they have."

Friday, November 20, 2009

Is Sarah Palin Going Rogue Against Non-Fiction?


Oh, Sarah, what have you done now?

Our little Alaskan rogue is making headlines with her new book. Top McCain advisers and staffers are claiming Palin's new memoir is "based on fabrications." Memoirs based on fabrications are more accurately referred to as fiction. Is Sarah going rogue against non-fiction? Is non-fiction associating with domestic terrorists?

Of course, she's in good company, along with other fake memoir writers who got sensational media coverage, to be outed as fictionalizers later. Remember James Frey's #1 bestseller A Million Little Pieces. Will Oprah chew Sarah out on national television later for lying? Will Oprah even get the chance? The word out today is that Oprah is leaving her show.

Oh, Sarah, you ruin everything!
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