Ann Gelder
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- A writer and recovering academic. You can read my work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Portland Review, The Millions, The Rumpus, and Tin House. I have taught comparative literature at Stanford and Berkeley, and I recently completed my first novel.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Counting minutes, not words?
August 16, 2012 05:35PM - Is silence golden?
August 14, 2012 04:58PM - Riffing and dwelling
July 31, 2012 11:39AM - Advertising, fiction, and Mad
Men
July 17, 2012 07:33PM - Introverts unite! (No, wait,
not so close ...)
July 11, 2012 03:55PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “As you say, "our fellow
humans who are no better nor
worse,
worthy or
unwort…”
July 11, 2012 04:57PM - “Well done, Kenneth.
Thanks for the laughs (dark
though they
may be).”
April 24, 2012 04:15PM - “Kenneth and
Roberto--thanks for the nice
comments. And for
the Italian
lesson, Ro…”
April 11, 2012 10:55AM - “That was my other
question: what exactly is a
"flaw"? I
suppose the
one…”
March 21, 2012 11:00AM - “Yes, the all-or-nothing
mindset is really hard to get
over. I
find it applies
in…”
March 20, 2012 06:26PM
Ann Gelder's Links
- Editor’s Pick
- 450 Views
- 9 Comments
But Watson isn't gracious
FEBRUARY 17, 2011 11:15AM EST
- 391 Views
- 3 Comments
"I am the laziest ambitious person I know."
JULY 2, 2012 6:19PM EDT
- 156 Views
- 4 Comments
Plot and plotless
JUNE 21, 2011 2:58PM EDT
- 176 Views
- 3 Comments
Are we happy yet?
MARCH 17, 2011 4:03PM EDT
- 152 Views
- 3 Comments
Against the Day: Where the hell am I?
JULY 7, 2011 8:38PM EDT
- 282 Views
- 4 Comments
Plot is thought turned into action
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 3:12PM EDT
- 134 Views
- 2 Comments
What you need to start writing a novel: a voice
NOVEMBER 1, 2011 4:12PM EDT
- 336 Views
- 3 Comments
Staying in touch with your writing
MARCH 13, 2012 12:03PM EDT
- 327 Views
- 3 Comments
For the love of the flawed novel
MARCH 20, 2012 1:13PM EDT
- 460 Views
- 3 Comments
An adverb of note
APRIL 10, 2012 12:05PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 491 Views
- 2 Comments
In praise of the writerly surprise
MAY 8, 2012 8:52PM EDT
- 270 Views
- 1 Comments
Personification enlivens abstraction
MAY 22, 2012 3:11PM EDT
- 184 Views
- 1 Comments
Mystery novels and the mystery of death
JUNE 5, 2012 4:27PM EDT
- 200 Views
- 2 Comments
Should writers cut back on scenery?
MARCH 2, 2011 11:44AM EST
- 152 Views
- 0 Comments
$125 well spent
MARCH 9, 2011 11:11AM EST
- 166 Views
- 1 Comments
Do's and don't's for writers
MARCH 29, 2011 6:19PM EDT
- 203 Views
- 2 Comments
What is narrative?
MARCH 31, 2011 2:57PM EDT
- 124 Views
- 2 Comments
The new novel is napping
APRIL 28, 2011 11:06AM EDT
- 122 Views
- 2 Comments
First and third
JUNE 7, 2011 4:23PM EDT
- 148 Views
- 7 Comments
Return to Pynchon
JUNE 23, 2011 3:43PM EDT
- 103 Views
- 1 Comments
Why we need models
JUNE 28, 2011 3:36PM EDT
- 112 Views
- 3 Comments
Revising from something rather than nothing
JUNE 30, 2011 7:16PM EDT
- 247 Views
- 3 Comments
Werner Herzog (again)
AUGUST 3, 2011 1:27PM EDT
- 96 Views
- 1 Comments
On being decisive (in fiction)
AUGUST 11, 2011 5:29PM EDT
- 281 Views
- 1 Comments
Is Pynchon overrated?
AUGUST 16, 2011 1:08PM EDT
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