Tag: Washington Irving

• Notes on My Novel

  Tamper strives to balance mainstream storytelling with some of the more modern conventions, sometimes called meta-fiction, without alienating fans of either style. This gives fans of both meta-fiction and mainstream fiction something to talk about. To borrow a phrase from Cory Doctorow, it “brings more people into the tent.”  In his book, The Modern Weird […]

  Bill Ectric

  March 7, 2009

  Henry James, mainstream fiction, metafiction, S. T. Joshi, Sleepy Hollow, Tamper, Thomas Ligotti, Thomas Tryon, Washington Irving, Weird Tales, writing, writing tips

• Washington Irving Rips Critics

  From The Literature Network, here’s an excerpt from Desultory Thoughts On Criticism, a very funny essay written in 1839 by Sleepy Hollow legend Washington Irving: “It is singular, also, to see the fickleness of the world with respect to its favorites. Enthusiasm exhausts itself, and prepares the way for dislike. The public is always for […]

  Bill Ectric

  January 8, 2009

  literary criticism, The Literature Network, Washington Irving