Tag: philosophy

• Writing Futures from the Present

  

  Lately I’ve been processing the strong possibility that I won’t get to keep my new home in Colombia (at least, not full-time for a few years), and it’s been difficult to focus on writing in the middle of this grief. Compounding that difficulty is the fact that I’m currently working on my entry for Grist’s…

  M L Clark

  March 22, 2021

  Fiction, M L Clark, writing craft

  near-future science fiction, philosophy, science fiction, writing craft, Writing Culture

• Lessons from Lessing: In Search of My Golden Notebook

  

  I can’t remember who recommended Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962) to me as a teen, but I read it during a period when I was glutting myself on mid-20th-century British authors (Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble being two other stand-outs; Beryl Bainbridge, I’d meet only in my late 20s). The Golden Notebook is most…

  M L Clark

  March 6, 2021

  Book Talk, M L Clark, Writing Culture

  Doris Lessing, iris murdoch, literary agents, literary culture, literature, margaret drabble, philosophy, publishing industry, science fiction