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In episode 3, season 2 of The Write Attention podcast Brittany and Jeannetta discuss style in light of Miciah Bay Gault’s craft essay on style (link below) and the influence our real and adopted selves have on the form and content of the work we create. They jointly work on the exercise offered in Gault’s essay to write on loss in the style of another writer.
Craft essay referenced in this episode is “I Craft Therefore I am Creating Persona Through Syntax and Style” by Miciah Bay Gault, accessible here: https://hungermtn.org/i-craft-therefore-i-am-creating-persona-through-syntax-and-style/
Kurt Vonnegut essay on style, https://kmh-lanl.hansonhub.com/pc-24-66-vonnegut.pdf
John Keene, https://lithub.com/john-keene-elements-of-literary-style/
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country
George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Poor Things, https://www.searchlightpictures.com/poor-things/
The Lobster, https://a24films.com/films/the-lobster
Lighthouse classes can be found here:
The Earley Scale, check out more about it here: https://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/going-cold/
Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word
Donna Tartt
The Write Attention S2E2 with Amelia Ihshak, The Emerging Reader in All of Us, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/the-emerging-reader-in-all-of-us/
Ward Farnsworth, Classical English Style, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49831663
William Carlos Williams
Lidia Yuknavitch Corporeal Writing: https://www.corporealwriting.com/about-corporeal and https://youtu.be/o9pUjixyWI4?si=4u4VaF4gE_N3yYsT
Toni Ann Johnson
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies
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The Write Attention is a podcast where we explore the questions and challenges we are paying attention to in our journey as emerging writers