As a writer, Schooler is an amateur in the original sense of the word; his writing reveals an abundance of wilderness savvy, and a mind scrupulous about getting the world down as accurately as possible.
More than that, it can offer a humane experience of creative self-exposure, one that the published writer – schooled in the hard knocks of critical reception, or the indifference of the lack of one – might envy.
A few weeks before I followed Stevens to aspiring-writer school, I had a conversation about all of this with some people who'd come to see a mutual friend play an open mic night at a local coffee house.
There's no famous writers school.
I signed up for Accountability Club, a weekly three-hour in-person gathering at Story Studio, a Chicago writers' school.
The organisation, which works to establish links between writers and schools, had gathered an assortment of authors, teachers and journalists to celebrate both a highly successful year and the launch of a book on how to get the most out of writer-school partnerships.
The writer cut school that Sat.
SCOTT WHITE Montclair, N.J., Oct. 22, 2003 The writer is school counselor, Montclair High School.
In 1970, the writer quit school and returned to New York, where he spent numerous evenings at Kael's apartment gabbing until 2 or 3 in the morning.
In the most moving story, the pedagogical "process of elimination" takes on a chilling new meaning for a writer of school exams whose brother was killed in Iraq.
JOHN C. FAGER New York, June 26 , 2001The writer investigated school facilities for the City Council president in the late 1980's.
