Sacred Disorder | Cliff Bostock's blog – 'Finally, I came to regard as sacred the disorder of my mind' (Rimbaud)
Sleep, dreams and creativity
The New York Times has been publishing a blog, “All-Nighters,” which it describes as “an exploration of insomnia, sleep and the nocturnal life.” It’s of personal interest to me since I’ve suffered insomnia ever since my mother’s death four years ago. I found the March 19 entry, “Why We Need to Dream” by Jonah Lehrer, […]
To self-publish or to not publish at all?
I woke up this morning to an NPR piece about self-publishing. Like most writers of my generation, I still tend to think of such publishers as “the vanity press.” That’s why I was surprised to hear that Mark Morford, a popular columnist on the San Francisco Chronicle website, decided to go the self-publishing route: [Morford] […]