Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

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A Year to Review

A Change of Persona

Ice

A Constraint of Choice

Dealing with Criticism

A White Fence

Unfinished Projects

A Siren at Night

The Last Novel

The Weight of Sincerity

A Border Town

The Passing Day

A Country Girl

Whisper

Where is Afghanistan?

The Closeness of the Words

The Bad Words

Literary Interruptions

Losing a Language

Endless Grievances

How to Trigger Creativity

Shackles

Specific Judgements

A Transcript of Speech

A Pattern of Dreams

What Does A Writer Do?

Orthodoxies

First Lines

Moonlight

Imagine the Gaps

Lacking Conviction

A Writer's Writer

Camera Lens

Off the Page

Private Conversations in Public

Unspeakable Words

One Possibility

Archaic Words

Timescales

Collapsible Distances

Schoolyard Trajectories

Mistranslations

When They Won't Speak

Yesterday's Path

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