Category: Writing Life
Six of My 2025 Reads: The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
At the top of 1997 I sat down and listed all the books I’d read up to that point. I came up with ~40 titles.…
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Six of My 2025 Reads: Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
At the top of 1997 I sat down and listed all the books I’d read up to that point. I came up with ~40 titles.…
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Six of My 2025 Reads: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
At the top of 1997 I sat down and listed all the books I’d read up to that point. I came up with ~40 titles.…
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In the Room with David
On Friday, 29 August, I walked the Hall of Prisoners in the Accademia Gallery, in Florence, Italy, and stood in the room with David. This…
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J. B. Phillips on Beauty
In his 1966 book, Your God is Too Small, the Oxford educated clergyman and translator J. B. Phillips wrote, “True beauty always seems to bear…
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