Hidden Friends

The dining room table where I drink my morning coffee is cluttered with my stuff. Journal, pens, glue stick, tape, a couple of knitting patterns, a sock in progress. I like to think of it as my desk, but it’s not. I like it here. There is a window that looks out to the back [...]

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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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