Reading Time: 8 minutes A version of this illustrated article was given by J.R. Carpenter as a Keynote Address at the New Media Writing Prize Award Event at Bournemouth University in January 2017. Things Rarely Turn Out the Way I Intend Them To According to a note, I wrote in a primary school scrapbook when I was eleven years… Read more »
Articles by J. R. Carpenter
Walks from City Bus Routes: A Circuitous Route
J. R. Carpenter
Reading Time: 7 minutes During the summer of 2009 I spent a week reading and writing in residence at the Elizabeth Bishop House, in the tiny and thus somewhat incongruously named village of Great Village, Nova Scotia. Readers may know Great Village as the setting of Bishop’s haunting story In the Village, first published in the New Yorker in… Read more »