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The Maytrees.
Review: Marilynne Robinson, A classic of cosmic realism; NPR: excerpts and Dillard reading a selection.
Annie Dillard has characters who think.
Lou:
In her last years Lou puzzled over beauty, over the tide slacked holding its breath at the flood. She never knew what to make of it. Certainly nothing in Darwin, in chemical evolution, in optics [...]

One of the requirements for the masters of fine arts degree at the Warren Wilson MFA program is the teaching of a class. Mine had something to do with the use of details, specifically color, but that is irrelevant. C’s was on immediacy. Attendees wrote their critiques and feedback about the class afterwards, anonymously, which [...]

Kafkology. Underlining July 3: Franz Kafka’s birthdate in 1883, and some years later mine. (But possibly you, depending on who you are, remember this from last year.) This year I have a new to me used copy, a New Directions paperback, of Janouch’s Conversations with Kafka, picked up at Moe’s yesterday. It’s a copy with [...]