A monthly letter from Gotham’s president, Alexander Steele (writing advice and other musings)
Oh, the drama we’re seeing on our national stage these days! Power, prejudice, rage, sexual assault, duplicity, espionage, wild fires, hurricanes, bombs, shootings, a country cleft in twain. I’d like to see what Shakespeare or John le Carré or Octavia Butler could do with it.
Or you.
If you’re a citizen of the U.S., please vote on Tuesday, November 6. Add your voice to the making of history. Continue reading “The Spirit-Stirring Drum”
We often turn to writers to glean wisdom about the world. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been a kind of bible to many troubled teens, as Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind has been to women struggling to be strong, or Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking has been to people suffering grief.
So, when you write, do you need to be wise? Continue reading “The Wisdom Of Writers”
If you’re reading this, you probably know that Gotham is continually handing out pearls of lustrous information for writers like you. Not to the cheap “content” everyone else is shoving in your face.
Well, Gotham has a blog now, where we’ll be posting much of this information.
The main features of the blog:
Letters from Alex – My letters, the ones from this newsletter, will be collected there, one a month. Mostly I give insights on writing, but I throw in other musings as well. For years, people have been asking for this. (Okay, my wife and maybe one other person.) Continue reading “Announcing the Gotham Blog”