Bookishness and Tookishness
I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
Bookishness and Tookishness
I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
S2 Ep32: Christine Flanagan on Flannery O’Connor’s Mentor
We often think of Flannery O’Connor as a lone genius. But her genius was shaped by a (now) less well-known writer named Caroline Gordon. Christine Flanagan, English professor at the University of […]
Recovery, Escape, Consolation: Tolkien On Fairy Stories
In preparation for Writing with Hobbits, I’ve been reading Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories,” in which he makes a case for his kind of fantasy. It gets pretty technical, but there are […]
S2 Ep31: Sandra McCracken
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken. Wee talk about the formative power of hymns, the ancient balance established by the psalms between lament and a […]
So You Want to Be a Published Author . . .
I met once with a friend of a friend who was writing a book and wanted to talk about getting it published. I make it a policy not to give […]
S2 Ep30: Cindy Bunch
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Cindy Bunch, author of Be Kind to Yourself and associate publisher and director of editorial at InterVarsity Press. They talk about how to maintain […]
Cyborgs. Spies. Overly Correct Grammar.
A few weeks ago I got an excellent question from a Habit Weekly reader named Todd Thurston. His question came in response to my discussion of subordinating conjunctions during a three-week series […]
Where Does Originality Come From?
Why do you want to be original? That may sound like a rhetorical question, but it might do you some good to answer it. We appreciate and admire originality when […]
S2 Ep29: Andrew Osenga
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with music industry veteran and host of The Pivot podcast Andrew Osenga. They talk about what Andrew’s podcast has taught him about listening, the multilayered […]
Love and Assent
While reading Wendell Berry’s story collection, That Distant Land, I was struck by this description of a character named Martha Elizabeth Coulter: She was a woman always near to smiling, sometimes […]