Natalie Goldberg is an American author and speaker widely known for her 1986 book, Writing Down the Bones, exploring writing as a Zen practice.
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Banana Rose is the story of Nell Schwartz, a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who moves to the Taos of communes and sweet cedar smoke, transforms herself into Banana Rose (because she’s “bananas”), falls in love with a horn player named Gauguin, and believes they can stop time if they just love hard...
Here, Natalie Goldberg, “a writer both energized and enlightened” (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being.
The author of Writing Down the Bones recounts her journey awakening from the profound sleep of a suburban childhood, describing her fifteen years as a student of Zen Buddhism, her writing, and resistance to change.
Natalie Goldberg speaks on the practice of writing.
Twenty years ago Natalie Goldberg’s classic, Writing Down the Bones, broke new ground in its approach to writing as a practice.
What was I doing standing up in front of everyone anyway? ... They had signed up for this lovely New Age weekend down in Florida—what was going on with this Natalie Goldberg? I knew only a handful had read any of my books.
You’ve filled your notebooks, done your writing practice, discovered your original voice.
When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence.
In addition to revolutionizing the writing world through her books, Natalie Goldberg is a talented and beloved teacher. Her workshops have long been lauded as transformative experiences that free the writer within and set forth the path for lifelong practice.
"The first thing that comes to mind when I think about the writing life. . . I just think of space. Time to daydream. Time to notice things," says Natalie Goldberg, author of many beloved books on writing.
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