by Marta Maretich | Mar 19, 2015 | Events, The Merchants of Light, Writing and reading
The afternoon sun began to slant into the salon, sliding its radiance across the surface of the painting…Bonomo had the servant bring another bottle of prosecco. His wife Vittoria soon came in along with some jolly friends of hers and they all joined the... 
by Marta Maretich | Feb 15, 2015 | Writing and reading
Everyone likes to read about the day jobs of famous writers — and how they were able to give them up. But for today’s writers the day job will be permanent part of our working lives. Harper Lee on her break. When it comes to the bios of famous writers, the day... 
by Marta Maretich | Dec 11, 2014 | The Merchants of Light, Writing and reading
We writers love our books—and then they leave us. Adored projects, like The Possibility of Lions, go off into the world and find their own lives, their own friends. It’s what we want for them, just like we want it for our children, and yet their success leaves a... 
by Marta Maretich | Dec 9, 2014 | Writing and reading
Publishers at daggers drawn with media distributors. Bookstores vanishing from our neighborhoods. Writers working harder than ever to get their books into the hands of readers, for less reward. All this makes it easy to feel pessimistic about the future of literature.... 
by Marta Maretich | Oct 25, 2014 | Literacy, The Possibility of Lions, Writing and reading
It’s funny how writing projects take shape. Sometimes they come together in hours — a flood of inspiration. Sometimes they congeal slowly over many years. The Possibility of Lions, my new novella, has taken a decade to find its voice. Short as it is, it... 
by Marta Maretich | Oct 23, 2014 | The Possibility of Lions, Writing and reading
Michael McClure is an American poet with a career stretching back to the Beat generation. In the attached clip McClure puts aside his tambourine to go the the San Francisco zoo to recite “Tantra 49″, a poem from his 1964 collection Ghost Tantras, to caged lions. The... 