Beth Kephart

Jun 27, 2024 | montrealgazette.com | Grace Lin |Kate Messner |SARA O’LEARY |Beth Kephart

The Little Books of the Little Brontës recounts how the famous siblings found inspiration; Books Make Good Friends will have young readers searching for old favourites and new titles to explore. Author of the article:  •  Special to Montreal Gazette  •   •  You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page.

Mar 28, 2024 | brevity.wordpress.com | Beth Kephart

Does It Have to Be Memoir? By Beth KephartIn the end, we make it. We craft the poem, we THE END the novel, we choose the cover art that will announce our work. No matter which pronouns we’ve used, no matter how many autobiographical facts we’ve either deployed or disguised, no matter how we defend or announce ourselves in our gussied-up flap copy, the books by us begin with us; they are personal.

Mar 12, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Beth Kephart

A few years ago, the tall, narrow shelves in my office fell, tossing books and shells and fragile figurines across the room. In the archaeological dig that followed, unremembered fractions of my past came careening back. Letters that had been tucked inside slender poetry collections made me miss, again, lost friends. A series of photographs once stuffed between books reignited that moment in time when I stood in proximity to the literati and wondered what real authors do to earn a place among them.

Dec 22, 2023 | writersdigest.com | Beth Kephart

Because, in the beginning, it is always blank. Just a page. Just a haunt. Just a promise. It is not yet anything. It could be everything. A blank page is an invitation and a question. “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become invisible,” Vladimir Nabokov said, seductively. “You must not come lightly to the blank page,” Stephen King said, cautioningly.

Dec 1, 2023 | lithub.com | Beth Kephart

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have read Annie Dillard’s classic essay “Total Eclipse” purely for the sake of the story—to stand on the hill beside her while the world howled itself into darkness and then reclaimed the light. I have read it to map its multitudes—the iterative ways in which the total eclipse is summoned and evoked, fantasized and explained.