http://successful-writer.com Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:46:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I feel that I'm on some sort of a quest. I could have published a novel or poetry collection years ago, but in a sense, I feel that would only limit me, because like in The Serpent, to publish something means that you are giving up on what it could ... http://successful-writer.com/world-lit/the-anatomy-of-a-story/ I first encountered The Artful Edit when a writer recommended in the paper that someone should translate the book into Hebrew. Although I have not found a publishing house that is willing to translate it, I must say that reading Susan Bell's book, in the few hours I had free ... http://successful-writer.com/uncategorized/the-artful-edit/ While I was busy reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf, I came to the conclusion that this book was also a wonderful manual about writing. In the beginning Orlando's problem in creating a poem is the dissonance between reality and the way he imagines colors and objects. Then there was a ... http://successful-writer.com/prose/creative-writing-round-2/ Yiddish literature in Poland at the beginning of the 20th century was fighting a losing battle against Polish literature. Uri Zvi Greenberg, the great Hebrew poet, once said that the sons of the Yiddish writers read better Polish than Yiddish. The most popular literature in Yiddish during that time was ... http://successful-writer.com/world-lit/the-street/ Witold Gombrowicz is one of the most influential Polish writers from the first half of the 20th century. Pornografia is a story about the corruption of two young resistance members by the author's alter egos, who try to draw from the youth's zeal. He was very critical about the culture ... http://successful-writer.com/world-lit/pornografia/   Szymborska's poetry is filled with personas even when she writes about the museum or describing a picture or the house of a great man, she would simultaneously, logically and powerfully show us a very unique point of view. But she also touches the archetype or core of the situation, where ... http://successful-writer.com/poetry/szymborska/ I have been avoiding answering a letter from the editor of Mashiv Haroach (a Jewish poetry newspaper) for some time. They are about to publish a volume about my homeland, the Negev and I have never written about my homeland seriously. One might say that everything you write is harks ... http://successful-writer.com/poetry/home-is-where-the-art-is/ Jeanette Winterson's book about a foster mother and son in 17th century England is a travel novel that sometimes reminds some of Calvino's work. This book gives a new meaning to science fiction because the 'science' that is being challenged here is not the usual mathematics, physics or philosophy but ... http://successful-writer.com/uncategorized/sexing-the-cherry/ 2020   is one of a very small group of Israeli science fiction books, what is interesting that a great portion of those books are being written by women like Sara Blau or Hagar Yannay. This book is special because unlike Asaf Gavron's Hydromania that was described in the newspapers as ... http://successful-writer.com/uncategorized/2020/ I believe that the whole purpose of literature is to teach us something about life. Even when one writes a poem about a tree we would have no knowledge about that particular tree without the writer as a filter. Science fiction asks the questions about life not in the past ... http://successful-writer.com/uncategorized/what-is-science-fiction-2/