Pat Yale follows her hero across Turkey
Following Miss Bell has a homely tone one doesn’t associate with the majestic Gertrude Bell
Writing
Sunday
Monday
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
Monday
Think autofiction is easy? Think again
There are relatively few rules beyond (perhaps) a disregard for plot
Sunday
Succeeding at failing
Failure is not a learning experience; it’s a humiliating and hurtful experience
Monday
Writing and the conservative impulse
All writers are, in a certain sense, conservative
Monday
Stacking up
Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies
Monday
Down with Strunk and White
Followers of the style guide don’t understand what a versatile, vigorous sentence can do
Thursday
A writer’s coronavirus diary
Imagine if you could date coronavirus itself. It seems exotic. Enigmatic. Worldly and cosmopolitan
Friday
How to write the Great Coronavirus Screenplay
‘JESSICA is sitting on her Peloton bike. It’s April 2020. Rain slides down the windowpane. She hasn’t left her apartment — not even to go to Whole Foods — for almost a month’
Sunday
The biggest problem with today’s writers? Mediocrity
Fear is only part of the equation
Monday
My father threatened to sue me for my first novel
Literary lapses and family law: A Slightly Foxed books excerpt
