#Steve Almond

[tender-somethings]

"Isn’t there something you want to tell me, something filthy and lovely and true."

- Steve Almond, Which Brings Me to You.

[jacobwren]

“The writers Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond had a podcast called Dear Sugars. On one episode, a woman had written in seeking their advice, asking if her reaction to a painful situation had been wrong. Almond did not respond directly. Instead he said: reading the letters we receive, I’m always struck by how much, and how quickly, people convert their pain into self-loathing. This stopped me cold.” – Sarah Krasnostein, The Believer

[novlr]

“To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.” ― Steve Almond

[semperintrepida]

Crazily enough, Writer’s Block is sometimes a symptom of progress. I have a lot of students who travel the same arc I did in grad school. They put in long hours critiquing the work of their comrades. This sharpens their critical faculty. When they return to their own prose, they are suddenly confronted by flaws that had been invisible. It’s brutal. But what’s really happening? They’re holding themselves to a higher standard, taking their task more seriously. It can feel like being cast out of Eden. The writer has to leave the paradise of innocence (making decisions free of judgment) and face the true nature of her work, the psychological and emotional challenges of literary art. Welcome to the big show.

—Steve Almond, "How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While"

[ofpineapplesandpeaches]

“Attention is the first and final act of love”

- Excerpted from the foreword of Cheryl Strayed’s book, tiny beautiful things; written by Steve Almond.

[meandmybigmouth]

ISN’T THAT “VERBOTEN”?

[labyrinths-library]

Book 19 of 2024

Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country? by Steve Almond

★★★

Find the author here. Find the book here.

Pages: 257

Genre: Nonfiction/ Essay

Review:

So this is definitely an American-Centric book of Essays. It's political commentary that made me angry but in a good way. Good writing makes you feel something and this book made me feel so many things. I finally understood rage reading, but I found myself sucked into this book. It was very enlightening, but God, people are so stupid. It was interesting to see the cause and effect of things.

[kristipetersenschoonover]

Back to School: Upcoming Can’t-Miss Writing Classes from Almond, ASF

Lately I’ve been feeling restless and wanting to take some writing classes—we all know that, as writers, not only is it like having homework for the rest of our lives, we’re never done learning. I’ve signed up for Steve Almond’s Almond Joy: A Trio of Classes to Kickstart Your Writing courses at Writing Co-Lab below, and wanted not only to share the opportunity out there with our 34 Orchard…

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #374

An end of week recap “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Brontë (born 21st April 1816) This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings. CHATTERBOOKS >>  If you are…

[backlogbooks]

i respect a nonfiction author who’s this upfront lmao

[little-bumblebeeee]

how I think steve figured out The Hair:

Just did what his mom would do when he was like 10

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Found his mom's hairspray and magazines, did some thievery of both

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Okay we're doing better not as shwoopy

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Literally too baby girl for his own good, ran his fingers through it more and grew it out some

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Possibly got it trimmed, still doing a routine but not as much as he used to, his hair is definitely softer than pre s3 from not using as much product but he def keeps a bunch on hand for bad hair days (his mom still doesn't know where the farrah fawcett spray went, she doesn't care either because she simply has not been home). Definitely keeps it this way because he knows if his parents were home then they'd make it go back to s1 Lego man hair

[hellcheercaine]

Billy + microwave oven

PS: Am I doing this right?

(Metalsandwich + tik tok comments)

[dbstaches]

Early Soft Cell lineup: Dave Ball, Marc Almond and Steve Griffith, circa 1980

[aeide-thea]

[ID: Excerpt from "Confessions of a Failed Novelist: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Try, Try, and Try Again" that reads:

When I ponder my evolving relationship to my unpublished novels, what comes to mind is a silly internet video I've watched a hundred times or so, usually to avoid working on a novel. It shows a cat attempting to leap up onto a nearby roof. Someone has drawn a set of equations above the cat's head, so that it appears to be calculating its precise angle and acceleration. Then it jumps and misses the roof by a mile and plummets out of the frame. As a novelist I feel like that cat all the time. The reason I finally reached the roof wasn't because I got any stronger, or improved my math. It was because I had become humbler before the immensity of my task, and thus more patient and self-forgiving, able to recognize my missteps without succumbing to the opera of self-doubt. In short, I reached the roof—after three long decades—because I leaped from atop a mountain of my own failures.

/end ID]

Steve Almond