Anita MathiasOmnibus ReviewCommonweal Magazine.Salman Rushdie's dazzling, densely textured maximilist novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Picador USA, $16, 575 pp.) tracks the brilliant rock stars, Ormus Cama and Vina Apsara, a contemporary Orpheus … [Continue reading]
Donald Hall in "Life Work" on tricking writing out of oneself
Donald Hall, how he tricks so much work out of himself. “At any moment, when a poem does not occupy me wholly, when I feel impatient, or discouraged, or tired, I drop it quickly; after a while—one hour, three hours—I feel the poetry-juices drying … [Continue reading]
Christians like Trees. Who bear fruit as they learn to trust
Christians like Trees. Rooted in trust and faith Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he … [Continue reading]
Francine Prose on the pleasures of writing non-fiction vs. fiction
Sandy Asviratham interviewing Francine Prose. She’s enjoying the break that nonfiction represents. “It’s so much more fun, because I can use the skills I’ve figured out as a novelist to create narratives, but since the story is there … [Continue reading]
Art, a staff to help us bear the ills of life.
I am looking forward to spending the day at the Ashmolean tomorrow. Watching Kenneth Clark's Civilization has rekindled my interest in art. Art is a staff to help man bear the ills of life. It sweetens life. Since man can only concentrate on … [Continue reading]
A very relaxing Friday evening writer's party
Watched Zoe in Noel Coward's manic Hay Fever, then went to a writer's party (smuggling the girls, who were not invited, into a corner of the beautiful North Oxford garden.) Our host, the designer for the current Doctor Who, being filmed near Cardiff, … [Continue reading]
The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD Jer. 10:21
The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the LORD; so they do not prosper. Jer 10:21 A church with a pastor who does not know how to really pray will soon become a country club! Not just shepherds. No one who does not enquire of the … [Continue reading]
The Writing Process
The Writing Process As humility comes before honour (Book of Proverbs), the moment of horror and despair in writing, the moment when you feel you know nothing at all, is the precursor to the flood of insight and intuition.That moment of … [Continue reading]
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