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Archive for May, 2009

This is the first book that I’ve purchased this year, Socks from the Toe Up by Wendy D. Johnson of Wendy Knits:

I’m trying to break the habit of just buying books. I use the local library. I borrow books from friends (and return them). I wander around bookstores and walk out empty handed. I’m using [...]

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Fiction or Non?

It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than sentences in Moby-Dick. So you might as well write Moby-Dick.
Annie Dillard, “Write Till You Drop” May 28, 1998, New York Times
Last week, I was browsing in a small used book store, and came across Annie Dillard’s book, Teaching a Stone to Talk. I [...]

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