The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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There’s a lot of astral projection in this story.

It’s your story, your voice, your choices, and I don’t want to question them, but why these words?

Comments Written By Actual Students Extracted From Workshopped Manuscripts at a Major University, collected by Tanya Rey for McSweeney’s.

[(2009 June 5) .]

Recent comments (HAO, Jammies.) • (Tim, Jammies.) • (Prashanth, Wedding.) • (Hao, Hands.) • (Prashanth, Hands.).

Recent posts (03/18, The Daily Show: Oscar Romero and textbooks.) • (02/03, Butter-related greetings.) • (01/18, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. day.) • (01/18, Chances, part one.) • (01/02, Jammies.).

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What can Brown do for you?

Once, on the first day of class, Angela Carter, who taught at Brown, was asked by a student what her own writing was like. She carefully answered as follows: “My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man’s penis.”

A profile of American creative writing education by Louis Menand on The New Yorker.

[(2009 June 4) .]