Tag: Writers on Writing

by CG FEWSTON March 4, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction

Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy

In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy provides the reader with an overwhelming experience of cowboys roaming the range in search of scalps, either Mexican or American Indians.

by CG FEWSTON February 28, 2014
Fiction Film

Disgrace (1999) by J.M. Coetzee

Not only has Coetzee brought David’s character to life and allowed to live his own life the way the character desires, the reader is simultaneously not repulsed but compelled to keep reading, keep digging, keep hoping like David that punishment will not go on forever.

by CG FEWSTON February 17, 2014
Non-Fiction

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”

by CG FEWSTON March 22, 2013
Fiction Film Pictures

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1, 1992) by Cormac McCarthy

Quite often it is upon the reader to make the emotional connections of what is beneath the surface.