… it could go either way, and then it just goes one way.
Annie Dillard’s whole oeuvre, she agrees. Daniel Asa Rose put it out there; the conversation first appeared at Washington Post Book World.
It’s [Dillard's new book, The Maytrees] such a passionate ode to love of various kinds: marital love, parental love, love of stars, seals, even hypocrisy and death. Your love has just kept going, hasn’t [...]
Which could be taken as a pun, perhaps. The Guardian reports that a Spanish publisher has decided it is time to publish the erotic musings of Juan Ramón Jiménez, which has outraged an order of nuns who’ve asked for his poems to be silenced.
Jiménez, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1956, two years [...]
Guardian has the summer fiction special online.
In case you didn’t know.
In case you need something more/different/other to read.
Featured this week in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry column. (Column 116) Kooser on the poem:
It’s the oldest kind of story: somebody ventures deep into the woods and comes back with a tale. Here Roy Jacobstein returns to America to relate his experience on a safari to the place believed by archaeologists to be [...]
Someone has let me know that coincidentally — though I doubt it’s coincidence, but more on that later — The Sharp Side has posted today about, in part, the same Nabokov quote/topic as did I last. Naturally, I went there and spent considerable time reading and thinking through The Sharp Side’s take on an earlier [...]
We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part of the pattern responds to the other; but you have to have in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations that you can neither define, nor dismiss. Beauty plus pity—that is [...]
I have to go shopping and I don’t want to, but it’s impossible not to, it’s too far gone now: I have to go. Have to pull myself out of here, when I am in the thick of things. So good to be in the thick of things again but I am reminded, again, by [...]
Chicago Reader’s Julia Rickert finds The best-selling self-help book Oprah’s thrown her muscle behind appears to contain at least one fabrication while reminding
I BELIEVE THAT the truth matters, Oprah Winfrey assured her viewers last year following her on-air confrontation with author James Frey.
The fabrication is a quote:
“The secret is the answer to all that has [...]