General updates from my writing life.
Follow the link below to reach this special number of Radcliffe Magazine, a publication of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
The issue consists of essays by artists, journalists, scholars and scientists addressing lessons learned in the difficult year of 2020.
Volume 11 of this journal—“The Practice and Pedagogy of Writing at Black Mountain College”—features twelve pages from What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights, accompanied by an essay on form entitled “The Road: A Shared Plight.”
To experience the writing go here:
Chapter 17 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in this journal out of San Diego State University edited by Harold Jaffe. When possible, a print version will appear. In the meantime the issue is available on-line.
To experience the writing go here:
This $5,000 award—jointly funded by the state of South Dakota and the National Endowment for the Arts—is “designed to support emerging artists committed to advancing their work and careers by providing funding to produce new work.”
These funds will importantly help alleviate financial pressure, allowing me to more quickly push various projects toward conclusion.
Deep gratitude goes out to the NEA, and, as well, the South Dakota Arts Council.
Recently fiction was featured by the literary journal Conjunctions.
Follow the link below to experience “Camp Gesticulslapper”:
http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/ben-miller-05-26-2020
To read an interview exploring the roots of my recent NER essay “The Haunting of Byerly Hall: WC” follow the link below:
George Floyd’s last words speak for generations of Americans: “I can’t breathe.”
An excerpt from my novel What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights just appeared in the latest issue of AMP (#5), out of Hofstra University.
To experience the writing read on:
Daily, hour by hour, thoughts fly toward our friends, loved ones, and colleagues in New York, New Jersey, and Boston. The image below was recently drawn by my frequent collaborator Dale Williams in his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Not long ago my essay “The Rock in the Grate” appeared in the online journal VOL. 1 BROOKLYN. To experience the writing follow the link below.
