Category: Reading as a Writer
He reads Robert Alter’s translation, The Five Books of Moses. Seeking to understand the literary qualities of the Hebrew––a language he studied for three weeks…
Read MoreRead poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps…
Read MoreThe poet Billy Collins’ latest book was released in September, Whale Day. As I do with every new Collins collection, I’m reading it slowly, treating…
Read MoreHistorically these have been two separate genres. It seems even a handful of decades ago poets and fiction writers moved in separate circles, spoke divergent…
Read MoreIn 1998, not long after my father died, I read 1984 by George Orwell. A great novel, far from great timing. When we read a…
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