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."

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Fan Wu on e-books for The Ploughshares Blog

Guest blogger Fan Wu comments on the rise of e-books on The Plougshares Blog:
E-books? E-books! by Fan Wu

Fan and I are of the same mind. We can't stop the popularity of e-books and changes in the publishing industry, but we don't have to join them either. They'll pull my books from my cold, dead hands.

"The harmonies of bound books are like the flowers of the field." - Hilaire Belloc
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