Joseph Patrick Pascale
Donna Tartt: Physical Writing Process
Literary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are...
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Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 6, 2014
- 4 min
Salman Rushdie and Timothy Garton Ash
Dialogue on Freedom of Expression at PEN World Voices Festival Salmon Rushdie sat down with his friend and colleague Timothy Garton Ash...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 27, 2014
- 2 min
Know Thyself, but be open to new ideas
Note: I’m part of a small writing guild called Scrawl. This is an excerpt from an issue of the Scrawl newsletter. For various reasons,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 14, 2014
- 4 min
#TwitterFiction & the Art of Microfiction
I decided to write a quick blog entry after reading an article in The Millions by Elizabeth Minkel entitled, "Can #TwitterFiction...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 8, 2014
- 7 min
The Author's Character
How much does the character of the author affect the work? Death and a Dictionary I recently read Simon Winchester’s The Professor and...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Feb 21, 2014
- 8 min
Cryptomnesia in Literature
Imagine the long hours spent crafting the perfect novel - revising each sentence to perfection, fleshing out each character, and tying...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Feb 19, 2014
- 4 min
Modern Kierkegaard
Reincarnations on Twitter A couple of weeks ago, I received a notification on my phone that I had been followed by "Modern Kierkegaard"...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 20, 2013
- 1 min
“If I used a poem to break out,
I can use a poem to sneak in.” "Forbidden Welcome" - a short story of poets, philosophers, and a totalitarian government with a robot -...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Nov 6, 2012
- 1 min
An Underwood From Out of Time
As you may have heard, a little freak weather event called Hurricane "Superstorm" Sandy ripped through the area recently doing its best...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Feb 23, 2012
- 1 min
A Look @DB10’s Conceptual Fiction Folio w/ “Stranded” by Marcos Mataratas
This blog may not have been updated recently, but I wrote a post for Drunken Boat's blog the other day, which I thought I'd share here....
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jul 15, 2011
- 3 min
George R. R. Martin Book Signing in NYC
George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, made an appearance at the Barnes & Noble in New York City's Union...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jun 5, 2011
- 4 min
Franz Kafka: Physical Writing Process
Quartered Onionskin Paper & My Own Blue Notebooks There’s an episode fairly late in Kafka’s life, September 1917 to April 1918, when his...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 15, 2011
- 3 min
Joyce & Borges: Physical Writing Process
The Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 9, 2011
- 4 min
Jonathan Franzen: Physical Writing Process
Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 2, 2011
- 3 min
Neal Stephenson: Physical Writing Process
Fountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 28, 2011
- 3 min
William Gibson: Physical Writing Process
The Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 25, 2011
- 4 min
Jack Kerouac: Physical Writing Process
Whenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Dec 30, 2010
- 2 min
Creative Overgrowth
in a Windowsill Garden I am honored to have my work included in On A Narrow Windowsill: Fiction & Poetry Folded Onto Twitter alongside 42...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Nov 24, 2010
- 3 min
Love of Literature
and Hatred of Fellow Man: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos I love the poetry of Ezra Pound, but it is unfortunate that he cast the tainted...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 21, 2010
- 2 min
"Wayfinder: Home of the Lýkos"
and "To Live a Life That is Not My Own" by Suany Cañarte It's been a big publishing week for the author Suany Cañarte. Finally, some of...
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