Twitter: The Bane of My Existence
#WhyIWrite is currently trending on Twitter and it's interesting to see what other authors have to say about why they write. I can be glib and say I write so that I won't strangle my boyfriend, or I write so I don't shout inappropriate things at my students. But in truth, I write so I can, for a very short amount of time, live in the past and walk someone else's hallways, live someone else's life-- often, someone who has very little in common with me.
LitHub had a great piece about Oscar Wilde the other day and even though I don't know a whole lot about the author and his work, it turns out he spent a lot of time at the Pavillion hotel in Sharon Springs which is where my novel White Elephant takes place. Wilde, who is described in the piece as flamboyant, theatrical, and dazzling, liked to give mini performances on the porch of the Pavillion in the late 1800's when the resort town was still a playground for the rich and famous, including the Vanderbilts. I'm not sure whether or not Wilde will feature at all in my novel but it's a bit of the color of the setting that makes Sharon Springs, New York a place I felt I could write about.
In other news, the inimitable Justin Taylor strikes again with a piece in Harpers about Percival Everett, an author with whom I have zero familiarity but after having read this piece I might pick up.
I'll add it to the ever growing stack that is no longer just by my bedside-- it is now on my bureau, on my floor, in my kitchen, and on my coffee table.
Happy reading!
xoxo
Poison
LitHub had a great piece about Oscar Wilde the other day and even though I don't know a whole lot about the author and his work, it turns out he spent a lot of time at the Pavillion hotel in Sharon Springs which is where my novel White Elephant takes place. Wilde, who is described in the piece as flamboyant, theatrical, and dazzling, liked to give mini performances on the porch of the Pavillion in the late 1800's when the resort town was still a playground for the rich and famous, including the Vanderbilts. I'm not sure whether or not Wilde will feature at all in my novel but it's a bit of the color of the setting that makes Sharon Springs, New York a place I felt I could write about.
In other news, the inimitable Justin Taylor strikes again with a piece in Harpers about Percival Everett, an author with whom I have zero familiarity but after having read this piece I might pick up.
I'll add it to the ever growing stack that is no longer just by my bedside-- it is now on my bureau, on my floor, in my kitchen, and on my coffee table.
Happy reading!
xoxo
Poison
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