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This live workshop recording by writer, poet, and teacher Natalie Goldberg includes new writing exercises and support for writers, plus groundbreaking advice on structure, not addressed in her best-selling books Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. "You create the universe," she says. Also included, Natalie reads the introduction to her book Long Quiet Highway.
LIBRARY JOURNAL:
This edited version of Goldberg's writing workshop reiterates the rules of writing she presents in her books Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala, 1986) and Wild Mind (Bantam, 1990). Here, she emphasizes the importance of "writing practice." All one needs is pencil, paper, a block of time, and the perseverance to work on a continuing basis. Goldberg urges writers to ignore the "monkey mind," that inner voice that prevents the expression of real thoughts. She relates how Zen and her tutelege under Daimin Katagiri Roshi contributed to her success and includes her reading of the introduction to Long Quiet Highway (LJ 2/1/91). The audio presentation allows the audience to hear the author's ideas in her own encouraging, relaxed style. Recommended for libraries with writing programs.
– Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In this abridgment of a two-day writing workshop, Goldberg interacts with her audience of writers and would-be writers. Gone is the near-hypnotic drone (except when she reads aloud). With real folks she's natural, warm, funny and sincere as she presents her "Rules of Writing Practice," a distillation of 20 years of hard-won discoveries. The abridgment is helped by Goldberg periodically letting listeners know where the program is in the weekend. Most inspiring are the voices of the participants reading their practice works--some of their writing is stunning. E.K.D. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Natalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, which she read in ninth grade. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twenty-four years old. She received a BA in English literature from George Washington University and an MA in humanities from St. John's University.
Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. They can also be viewed at the Ernesto Mayans Gallery on Canyon Road in Sante Fe.
A dedicated teacher, Goldberg has taught writing and literature for the last thirty-five years. She also leads national workshops and retreats, and her schedule can be accessed via her website: nataliegoldberg.com
In 2006, she completed with the filmmaker Mary Feidt a one-hour documentary, Tangled Up in Bob, about Bob Dylan's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. The film can be obtained on Amazon or the website tangledupinbob.com.
Goldberg has been a serious Zen practitioner since 1974 and studied with Katagiri Roshi from 1978 to 1984.
LIBRARY JOURNAL:
This edited version of Goldberg's writing workshop reiterates the rules of writing she presents in her books Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala, 1986) and Wild Mind (Bantam, 1990). Here, she emphasizes the importance of "writing practice." All one needs is pencil, paper, a block of time, and the perseverance to work on a continuing basis. Goldberg urges writers to ignore the "monkey mind," that inner voice that prevents the expression of real thoughts. She relates how Zen and her tutelege under Daimin Katagiri Roshi contributed to her success and includes her reading of the introduction to Long Quiet Highway (LJ 2/1/91). The audio presentation allows the audience to hear the author's ideas in her own encouraging, relaxed style. Recommended for libraries with writing programs.
– Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In this abridgment of a two-day writing workshop, Goldberg interacts with her audience of writers and would-be writers. Gone is the near-hypnotic drone (except when she reads aloud). With real folks she's natural, warm, funny and sincere as she presents her "Rules of Writing Practice," a distillation of 20 years of hard-won discoveries. The abridgment is helped by Goldberg periodically letting listeners know where the program is in the weekend. Most inspiring are the voices of the participants reading their practice works--some of their writing is stunning. E.K.D. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Natalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, which she read in ninth grade. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twenty-four years old. She received a BA in English literature from George Washington University and an MA in humanities from St. John's University.
Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. They can also be viewed at the Ernesto Mayans Gallery on Canyon Road in Sante Fe.
A dedicated teacher, Goldberg has taught writing and literature for the last thirty-five years. She also leads national workshops and retreats, and her schedule can be accessed via her website: nataliegoldberg.com
In 2006, she completed with the filmmaker Mary Feidt a one-hour documentary, Tangled Up in Bob, about Bob Dylan's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. The film can be obtained on Amazon or the website tangledupinbob.com.
Goldberg has been a serious Zen practitioner since 1974 and studied with Katagiri Roshi from 1978 to 1984.