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A Writer’s Envy, Part I: Lost in the Schoolhouse
Fresh from the AWP conference in Denver, we are back to the blog. This week, we welcome our new Get Behind the Plough bloggers, chosen from the pages of the Spring 2010 Ploughshares. Our Winter 2009-10...
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A Writer’s Envy, Part II: The Artist’s Husband
Guest post by Scott Nadelson Of course I’m not the first writer to express envy of the visual artist. As Geoff Dyer notes in Out of Sheer Rage, his book about not writing a book about D.H. Lawrence (a...
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A Writer’s Envy, Part III: Naked People in Pain
Guest post by Scott Nadelson So I don’t envy all artists, all the time. I wouldn’t, for example, have wanted to be the Israeli performance artist Sigalit Landau while she was making her piece Barbed...
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A Writer’s Envy, Part IV: The Heart Is a Telephone
Guest post by Scott Nadelson Apparently, envy goes both ways. Just last week I had lunch with a sculptor friend who said he really wishes he could have been a writer, that he constantly struggles...
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A Writer’s Envy, Part V: The Propaganda of Neutralism
Guest post by Scott Nadelson Visual artists also get to do narrative. And metaphor, too. As if they don’t have enough already, these spoiled visual artists, with their museums and their fancy openings...
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New Ploughshares Solo: A Warm Breath by Scott Nadelson
We’re excited to announce the publication of a new Ploughshares Solo: “A Warm Breath” by Scott Nadelson. The Ploughshares Solos series allows us to publish long essays and stories in a digital format....
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