Snowden Wright

Author of AMERICAN POP, PLAY PRETTY BLUES, and THE QUEEN CITY DETECTIVE AGENCY

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

The Lemannaissance is upon us! Thank you so much to everyone at the @oxfordamerican for shepherding this piece into publication. Jackson folks: Nancy and I will be in conversation this Wednesday at @LemuriaBooks!

https://t.co/8UJzZnG4LE

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

My best advice for not-yet-successful writers: Learn grammar. That puts you ahead of 99% of successful writers

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Me: Modern readers are crazy for wanting perfectly kind and decent protagonists. People like that don't exist!
Me after watching both seasons of Jury Duty: Okay, two people like that exist.

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Although I liked the first season of Beef--haven't watched the second--the idea of an anthology series centered and titled around "conflict" is hilarious. It's like a composer doing a series of symphonies on "sound," a choreographer doing a series of ballets on "movement"

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

@alexnazaryan @monteburke Same here! The Dartmouth connection alone should have compelled me to read it, but I was always like, Nah

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Neil McCauley: There's a flip side to that coin.
Vincent Hanna: What, like all coins?

#SnarkyHeat

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

@michaelbsacks Thanks! It was fun to write

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

My literary obsessions, by decade. How long, where to end, where to begin, kickers, ledes, etc.
In my 20s: Sentences
In my 30: Chapters
In my 40s: Paragraphs

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

No reader has ever complained that TOO MUCH happened in a novel. No reader has ever wished a writer HADN’T used quotation marks for dialogue. No reader has ever wished a writer HADN’T used the Oxford comma. No reader has ever thought, Hurray! Present tense!

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

The Pitt, judging by its first four episodes, is just ER with less visceral medical scenes and dialogue that's far, far more atrocious. This show is its pluralized title

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Here's a sort of blooper reel from my recent essay on Nancy Lemann:

https://t.co/130pve9FK0

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

PSA for writers: "Like" is not a synonym of "such as," despite its colloquial use as one. That line in your bio means you've been published in magazines "similar to" Ecotone and Ploughshares. You could honestly claim you've won awards like the Pulitzer Prize

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Resurrection Day Tidbit: My fave means by which Freddy Krueger was resurrected for a sequel? A dog peeing on his grave. Seriously, in part four, that's the plot mechanism--a dog raising its leg and unleashing a fiery-hot stream of dog urine on Fred Krueger's grave. Happy Easter!

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

People claim Sorcerer failed at the box office because of Star Wars, but I think the reason's much simpler: a bad title.

[Oxford American @oxfordamerican]

@SnowdenWright in conversation with Southern author Nancy Lemann. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/WRHvEfdFHd

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

I'm a bigger fan of Parul on Lerner than I am on Lerner on Lerner (on Lerner on Lerner on Lerner...)

[Parul Sehgal @parul_sehgal]

Will there be a more beautiful novel this year? Reviewed Ben Lerner's latest https://t.co/tr5lCf2Qoj

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Confused about the difference between autofiction and autobiographical fiction? Just remember the first part of "autofiction" is short for "autopilot," not "autobiographical"

[Oxford American @oxfordamerican]

“Society is Lemann’s métier. She’s a belletrist of etiquette.”

—Snowden Wright speaks to the reissues of Nancy Lemann’s “Lives of the Saints” and “The Ritz of the Bayou” alongside her latest work “The Oyster Diaries,” out April 7.

🔗: https://t.co/UrQRBow4EP

[Snowden Wright @SnowdenWright]

Back in grad school, a fellow student, regarding a piece that eschewed quotation marks for dialogue, offered the writer two words of advice as brutal as they were correct: "Grow up."

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I need to watch The Pitt. Can't believe they made an entire show about the rowdy frat from the movie PCU