A Plumb Line Into Literary History
I waft on still waters after being battered about by the strong gales of life: my writer’s notebook, Paris, Literary's Lost Generation, Ernest Hemingway. The post A Plumb Line Into Literary History...
View ArticleA Meditation on Rain
A weather system is slouching towards the Northeast, throwing up waves of moisture and kicking storms in from the Atlantic. Welcome to my mediation on rain! The post A Meditation on Rain appeared first...
View ArticleTraveling with Books: Making Room for Ideas to Visit
I have touched literary history with my own hands at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University; I'm traveling with books! The post Traveling with Books: Making Room for Ideas...
View ArticleLife as a Literary Laboratory: On Writing Well
“Becoming a writer": a phrase rife with pitfalls, rewards, angst, celebrations, despair and all emotions nameable: life as a literary laboratory is here. The post Life as a Literary Laboratory: On...
View ArticleOne Writer’s Influence: It All Leads Back to Poe
by Saxon Henry “Everything leads back to Poe,” declared Allen Ginsberg. The comment, etched on a placard in the recent exhibition Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul at The Morgan Library and Museum,...
View ArticleWhat Libraries Might Teach Us About Living
Writing my post for The Curated Object illustrating a recent visit to the Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point, North Carolina, which will go live next week, made me miss the times I delved into...
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