Maud Newton

I'm a writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, the Awl, Tin House, Narrative, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Granta, the Paris Review Daily, Swink, the New York Times Book Review, B&N Review, and many other publications. I received the 2009 Narrative Prize for an excerpt from the novel I'm still writing. Though best known as a book blogger, I post only sporadically these days, and the scope of things I've written about on the site I started in 2002, maudnewton.com, is and always has been pretty broad. You can subscribe to receive packages in the mail from me at Quarterly.

Feb 21

[W]hen the papers were discovered after his death, the script was assumed to be a secret code, a manifestation of schizophrenia. In fact, Walser had developed his “pencil method” to overcome his own inhibitions and neuroses regarding writing: by forcing the flow of his thoughts into a highly structured, shrunken physical form, he found he could achieve mastery over his creative process.

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