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Thoughtful Thursday

Posted on December 1, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 142

In this week’s #ThoughtfulThursday Alex shares an excerpt from Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling memoir ‘Kitchen Confidential.’ 
Posted on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 141

Happy Thanksgiving from Gotham! This week’s #ThoughtfulThursday features Samantha Irby’s essay, “How to Host Thanksgiving When You Don’t Even Have a Table.” 
Posted on November 17, 2022November 21, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 140


In this week’s #ThoughtfulThursday, our gastronomical adventures continue with a passage from Julie Powell’s memoir, Julie & Julia.

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This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poet Joy Harjo, reminding us of the power of listening to the world around us–physical or otherwise.

Joy Harjo served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2019-2022 and was the first Native American to hold the position. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She has taught across the United States and is also a prolific musician. Her works include Poet Warrior (2021), An American Sunrise (2019), Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Crazy Brave (2012) and more.

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This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poet Joy Harjo, reminding us of the power of listening to the world around us–physical or otherwise. Joy Harjo served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2019-2022 and was the first Native American to hold the position. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She has taught across the United States and is also a prolific musician. Her works include Poet Warrior (2021), An American Sunrise (2019), Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Crazy Brave (2012) and more. We hope that Joy’s words inspire your own writing practice this week.
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In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday Alex shares an In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday Alex shares an excerpt from Anthony Bourdain's bestselling memoir 'Kitchen Confidential.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poe This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poet Joy Harjo, reminding us of the power of listening to the world around us–physical or otherwise. Joy Harjo served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2019-2022 and was the first Native American to hold the position. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She has taught across the United States and is also a prolific musician. Her works include Poet Warrior (2021), An American Sunrise (2019), Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Crazy Brave (2012) and more. We hope that Joy’s words inspire your own writing practice this week.
Happy Thanksgiving from Gotham! This week's #Thoug Happy Thanksgiving from Gotham! This week's #ThoughtfulThursday features Samantha Irby's essay, "How to Host Thanksgiving When You Don't Even Have a Table."
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This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the Ira This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the Iranian American author, Azar Nafisi. This quote is from her interview ‘Resist Tyranny, Read Dangerously’ with Electric Literature earlier this year. Nafisi is perhaps best known for her bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), which documents her time teaching and living in Tehran during/in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She has also written the books The Republic of Imagination, Things I’ve Been Silent About, and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.
In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, our gastronomi In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, our gastronomical adventures continue with a passage from Julie Powell's memoir, Julie & Julia.
This week's #MondayMotivation comes from former Po This week's #MondayMotivation comes from former Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. We love this quote for its simplicity. Is all writing a kind of interrogation of the self? Poetry especially, perhaps? Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015. May her words inspire your own writing practice this week.
For the rest of November, our #ThoughtfulThursdays For the rest of November, our #ThoughtfulThursdays will highlight the vast and wonderful world of food writing. This week, Alex shares an excerpt from M.F.K. Fisher's memoir 'The Gastronomical Me.'
This week, our #MondayMotivation honors the passin This week, our #MondayMotivation honors the passing of a great writer (and a former Gotham faculty member), Julie Powell.   Julie is best known for her food memoir, 'Julie & Julia.' Her funny and sardonic writing about her kitchen adventures struck a chord with a whole new generation of writers that were crossing the bridge in to the (then) new world of blogging and online writing. She was a trailblazer and had a fantastic, relatable, and singular voice.   May Julie’s wit and warmth inspire your own writing this week, inside the kitchen or out.
In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares ab In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares about our current contests! Deadlines are approaching, so check out the link in our bio to learn more! Scriptwriting Scholarship for Writers of Color: Deadline is Nov. 15th, and the winner will receive two 10-week scriptwriting workshops, two intensives, a 12-hour mentorship package and the latest Final Draft software. Coming of Age First Line Contest: Deadline is Nov. 30th, and the winner will receive a free class of their choice! Monthly Twitter Contest: This month's prompt is "behind the mask." Share your story on Twitter using the hashtag #GWStoriesEverywhere by Nov. 30th for the chance to win a class of your choice!
Today’s (haunted) #MondayMotivation comes from o Today’s (haunted) #MondayMotivation comes from one of our favorite spooky writers, Karen Russell. This gem was lifted from her famous essay ‘The Parameters of Oz:’ a great read for any writer out there that is trying to bring a little bit of the surreal, the fantastical, or the otherworldly into their writing. Russell posits in the essay that in any piece of magical realism/fantasy/speculative fiction, there must be a good ratio of “Kansas” details to “Oz” details. A good balance of ordinariness and magic is tough to strike. But it’s true that readers gravitate to a magical world that has some “pleasures and dangers that mirror our own.” How do you go about executing such a balancing act? Karen Russell is best known for her short fiction collections St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Orange World, as well as her novels Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 2012. She is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” We hope that Russell’s words inspire your own (spooky) writing this week, and Happy Halloween!
In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex reads an In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex reads an excerpt from Shirley Jackson's novel 'The Haunting of Hill House.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poe This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poet Robert Hayden. It is interesting to consider whether the role art plays in our lives is one of “escape” or “a way of confronting life.” For most of us, both of these things can be true for different kinds of art we encounter. As a writer, do you write to get away from something, or to move toward it? Both? Robert Hayden was the first African American to hold the office of what was then called “Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress,” but is now known as Poet Laureate from 1976-78. His works were influenced by his study of African American history and his study under the poet W.H. Auden. His most famous poems include “Those Winter Sundays,” “Middle Passage,” and “The Ballad of Nat Turner.” We hope that Hayden’s words inspire your own writing practice this week.
In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares a In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares a passage from 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from this ye This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature winner, the French essayist and memoirist, Annie Ernaux. If you’re a writer whose primary subject is your own life (looking at you memoir and personal essay writers out there!), do you consciously live in a way that would be exciting for a reader to read about? Or, even if your own life is not the subject of your writing, do you gravitate to situations that you can fictionalize? Ernaux was born in France in 1940, and became known for her lightly fictionalized memoirs, written in spare, detached prose. Her work examines her memories, sometimes revisiting events in later works and reconstructing them, thus revealing the artifice of her own genre. Themes include her experience undergoing an illegal abortion, her troubled marriage and her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s among other life events. Her most prominent works are ‘A Man’s Place,’ ‘A Woman’s Story,’ and ‘Cleaned Out.’ We hope that Ernaux’s words and work inspire your own writing this week.
In this installment of spooky #ThoughtfulThursdays In this installment of spooky #ThoughtfulThursdays, Alex shares the beginning of Sylvia Moreno-Garcia's short story 'Lacrimosa.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poe This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the poet Tommy Pico. Pico is the author of the books ‘IRL’, ‘Nature Poem’, ‘Junk’, and ‘Feed’. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between LA and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude and cohosts the podcasts ‘Food 4 Thot’ and ‘Scream, Queen!’. He is poetry editor Catapult Magazine and writes on the TV shows Reservation Dogs and Resident Alien and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.
Happy Spooky Month! This month we'll be sharing so Happy Spooky Month! This month we'll be sharing some scary stories for our weekly #ThoughtfulThursday episodes. This week, Alex shares the opening of Ray Bradbury's novel 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the gre This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the great American jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis. It’s true that Miles wasn’t exactly talking about writing when he said these words, but they contain an important lesson for any artist: sometimes the only way to know for sure whether the work you’ve got in front of you is “good” or “bad” is to keep plunking out the notes. This advice has, in various ways, often been imparted to writers–to keep writing, and to not worry about the end-product so much. (Anne Lamott famously championed “shitty first drafts.”) Does Miles’s or Anne’s way of thinking resonate for you? Has there been a time when you’ve felt uncertain about a piece, but kept at it anyway and perhaps pleasantly surprised yourself? May Miles’s words inspire your own writing this week.
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