carol anshaw

thanks to the miracle of alphabetization

carolanshaw — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:08:40 +0000

my story, “The Last Speaker of the Language,” is the first in Best American Short Stories 2012, just out from Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt.

paperback out next week

carolanshaw — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:44:36 +0000

Carry the One has a new cover for the paperback edition. Hope you like it!

new paintings

carolanshaw — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:06:47 +0000

on the paintings page, I’ve put up a couple of new canvasses in my series on vita sackville-west, with more to come. I’m trying for something like a biography in paint. it’s all narrative to me—the writing and the painting.

the hard parts

carolanshaw — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:01:18 +0000

my least favorite parts of writing a novel are:

a] the very last go-over when I’m alternately weary with the manuscript and jolted with electric fear at seeing a character wearing yellow socks when a few pages earlier I’ve had them pulling on red ones

and where I am now, which is

b] the early roughing out when all my characters look like claymation figures and I’m still wondering where they’re all going.

at least I have been able to do a good bit of this here in amsterdam, looking over a canal, leading a much smaller version of my regular life.

hallowed ground

carolanshaw — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:30:51 +0000

my partner and I are standing in the doorway of virginia woolf’s summer residence, monk’s house. she wrote in a cottage in the garden, had a a great number of literary [and a few romantic] conversations in the living room, and, when madness threatened to return one time too many, walked away from it, into the river ouse with stones in her pocket.

the ending of carry the one

carolanshaw — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:06:47 +0000

I can see that some readers have come here looking for illumination on the ending of cto. what I would say is that the last word of the book offers a clue.

here’s a radio interview where shelagh shapiro asks me fascinating questions and I respond boringly and sound like a frog but I’m putting it up anyway.

carolanshaw — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:35:01 +0000

the podcast is called Write the Book. Shelagh’s show is on WOMM-LP – The Radiator – a noncommercial low-power FM radio station located in downtown Burlington, Vermont. here it is:

http://ar6.podbean.com/pb/837895ec4ffa993737f5c021e161620f/4fcaa01b/ar6/blogs23/50520/AnshawPodcast.mp3

This review is every writer’s dream.

carolanshaw — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:37:39 +0000

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/157226-carry-the-one-by-carol-anshaw/

maryanne kolton asks me some unexpected questions

carolanshaw — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:45:48 +0000

and discovers my old babysitter secret—look behind the books displayed on the shelves to find the dirty ones.

http://www.hercircleezine.com/2012/05/01/standout-stpryteller-gifted-painer-an-interview-with-carol-anshaw/

excellent review by marion winik in newsday

carolanshaw — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:33:23 +0000

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/carry-the-one-by-carol-anshaw-1.3657287