Jonathan Cosgrove

Author: Jonathan Cosgrove

  • Wants // Fears // Obstacles

    Wants // Fears // Obstacles

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    Wants ‘Writing updates’ as a genre provide such a dopamine kick. (Particularly on social media but you also enjoy telling your very patient and supportive girlfriend, too.) You have no “following” but simply writing something about the routine of writing, how it’s going well or badly, dispatches into the vast space of The Net provides…

  • forever too many books to read

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    This year–like every year–reading has been a fantastic source of respite from the neverending parade of bad news and tragedy unfolding around us. Recently I finished THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION–a detective novel by Michael Chabon set in alternative history where Jewish people settled in Sitka, Alaska post WW2–and it was one of the best reads…

  • too much of a good thing

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    I’m a fiend for writing advice. A goddamn fiend. I love reading about the craft of writing. Whether it’s how to plot successful stories, craft great characters, or even honing and sharpen sentences–I’m all in. However, I know myself well enough to know when I’ve had too much of a good thing. Yesterday I reread…

  • lately

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    Will Christopher Baer – The Age of Reason – Truthfully, I still haven’t read this story but I love Baer and I’m really excited for his non-fiction book that’s coming out soon(?) ish(?) on his time working in psychiatric institutions. And I’ll probably read it by the end of the day. If you haven’t read…

  • quality doesn’t matter.

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    Jonathan Cosgrove
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    Matt Bell talking to my very soul this morning.