Baseball and Writing
Marshall McLuhan, our all-knowing guru whom Kingwell quotes, says that baseball is a game about timing and waiting, "the entire field in
Everything in Retrospect
Robert Lax
He cares for words, and remembers his friends “like a sacred duty.”
Reading as a Way of Life
I read, therefore, I am. I read in the doctor’s office, on the bus, in the bathroom.
On the 16 Occasions When I’ve felt like a Real Writer
I’m standing in front of a stone church, dark and light limestone, smooth and ridged. I have my mother’s hand-knit Aran sweater
An American Gift to the World: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes you need a foreigner or someone who feels himself to be an outsider, someone who takes nothing for granted, to see
From Global Village to Global Membrane
We have made our tools, as Marshall McLuhan said years ago, and our tools have remade us.
Shawna Lemay’s Asking
She moves for the most part in sentences, but sentences concentrated and distilled—“music at the heart of thinking” in Fred Wah’s arresting
Dancing with Thomas Merton
Is there a part of me that wanted to be a monk? Maybe.
Discovering a New Writer – Roberto Bolaño
"He wrote, read, and watched television. That was essentially all he did." – Bolaño’s Spanish publisher, Jorge Herralde.
Emily Dickinson at War
If Walt Whitman is the father of American poetry, then Emily Dickinson is surely its mother. The influence of both is incalculable...
Glenn Gould as a model of how to get your work done
…the fabulous terror of not knowing before/one begins. Again. Kate Braid, The Goldberg Variations (19891), in A Well-Mannered Storm Start something big
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