Interview with Tom Spanbauer on his visit to the UK in June of this year. In this clip he talks about the underpinnings of his Dangerous Writing Workshop with Danny Broderick
This guy is the real thing. Take a dangerous writing workshop with Tom Spanbauer if you can, and you will write more fearlessly, with more heart and soul, and with, most importantly, the complete abandonment of all rules of English grammar. Dangerous writing is a kind of wonderful death of the "good student" in the emergence of the most wounded, and true, self on the page.
Love Tom Spanbauer and his work. Hawthorne Books will be publishing his new novel, I Loved You More, next April 2014. Blurbs from Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch and others...
Notes on Literary minimalism-(exemplified by Mark Richard, Amy Hempel and Chuck Palahniuk) Literary minimalism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist authors eschew adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. Readers are expected to take an active role in the creation of a story, to “choose sides” based on oblique hints and innuendo, rather than reacting to directions from the author. The characters in minimalist stories and novels tend to be unexceptional. Instead of grand narratives we see briefer and more economical scenes and seemingly insignificant moments that “add up to more than the sum of their parts.”
Hi Manon, no there is nothing longer. It was a short segment I did with Tom while he was staying over at friend's while teaching a weekend course in England all those years ago. But check out the second part below where he talks freely about Chuck's book getting written in his kitchen and what he thought of it. .
Thank you for sending me here, Mr. Chuck Palahniuk!
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon has been a landmark to me. No matter how many times I read it, it always moves me so much
chuck palahniuk sent me :)
This guy is the real thing. Take a dangerous writing workshop with Tom Spanbauer if you can, and you will write more fearlessly, with more heart and soul, and with, most importantly, the complete abandonment of all rules of English grammar. Dangerous writing is a kind of wonderful death of the "good student" in the emergence of the most wounded, and true, self on the page.
Love Tom Spanbauer and his work. Hawthorne Books will be publishing his new novel, I Loved You More, next April 2014. Blurbs from Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, and Lidia Yuknavitch and others...
Notes on Literary minimalism-(exemplified by Mark Richard, Amy Hempel and Chuck Palahniuk)
Literary minimalism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist authors eschew adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. Readers are expected to take an active role in the creation of a story, to “choose sides” based on oblique hints and innuendo, rather than reacting to directions from the author. The characters in minimalist stories and novels tend to be unexceptional.
Instead of grand narratives we see briefer and more economical scenes and seemingly insignificant moments that “add up to more than the sum of their parts.”
Read all of this book. hope he comes out with another piece :)(:
yeah, it's amazing. I'm in the middle of it now, and I think I have a new hero.
Great words
Is there a full version or longer version of this itw somewhere ?
Hi Manon, no there is nothing longer. It was a short segment I did with Tom while he was staying over at friend's while teaching a weekend course in England all those years ago. But check out the second part below where he talks freely about Chuck's book getting written in his kitchen and what he thought of it. .
@@dannybroderick Oh great, thanks for the reply ! I'll check out part 2 !
Conceal.
I thought he taught minimalism. Doesn't that contradict the conversational style?