Category: Writing Life
Three Portraits of a Reader
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…
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Three Portraits of a Writer
He writes as if composing a letter to a friend. Head bowed over his laptop, words drop like spring rain, silence but for the soft…
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Writing at Papa’s House and Yours
Monday morning, instead of logging on to my computer in my home office and dialing in for my first meeting of the day, I made…
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Available Yet Unpredictable
We live in an illusion of cause and effect. We believe that if we do this, that will happen. Our expectations match this myth. We…
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To Wrangle and Capture
The 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…
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