A Year in Reading: Michelle Huneven
I listen to audiobooks throughout the day, as I garden and cook, clean the kitchen and drive, and I have a contemporary child’s delight in listening to my favorites as often as I please.
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The Trouble with Writing
The trouble with writing is that it is often a roller coaster pitching us between grandiosity and despair.
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The Millions Interview: Leslie Jamison
I usually read poetry when I'm trying to write--it makes me swollen with beauty and possibility, with honesty, but it doesn't call up the urge to imitate.
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A Year in Reading: Michelle Huneven
This was my year of reading alcoholically. I didn’t plan it that way. But in book after book, the disease flourished and triumphed, not a recovery in sight.
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#9: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Alice Munro has taught us to find literary pleasure in leaping over time, in the odd swerves life takes, in the unexpected sources of comfort and sustenance, and in the idiosyncratic arrangements made for human happiness.
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On Walking and Reading at the Same Time
Narrative and walking—as Chaucer knew—are a fortuitous match.
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