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“I don’t do summer.”
I was tired and grumpy, and even the cool of my favorite around-the-corner-from-work-with-a-faculty-discount bistro was not up to the task of lifting my spirits. read more
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Blog August 2012
There I was told:
August 23, 2012
In a bookstore on Broadway, behind towering stacks that bring to mind bookstores past (and some present) and in front of a large clear window, read more
Tags: Carol Peters, Catallus, Cecil Day Lewis, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Harryette Mullen, James Wright, John Ashbery, John Donne, Laura Riding, Lisa Robertson, Marianne Moore, Maureen McLane, poetry, Wallace Stevens, William Wordsworth
North/South Toward Home
August 22, 2012
I had driven hundreds of miles when I caught sight of a sign in Laurel Hill, NC — not more than a few miles read more
Tags: Blue Ridge Writers Workshop, Celloasis, cuisine, fried oreos, Lake Lure, Mountains, North Carolina, signs, white sand, writers
David Rakoff
August 10, 2012
We were just beginning our 10 a.m. workshop here in Lake Lure, NC, opening our web browsers to download the morning’s submissions, when the email came from the friend who had been keeping me posted on David Rakoff’s battle with cancer. read more
Tags: David Rakoff, friends, inspiration, intelligence, kindness, mentors, remembering, wit, writers, writing