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Books!

By On May 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Books, Reading

A few recent acquisitions that I’m excited about:

Nonfiction

Kio ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the research and initial print run of her book, Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything. She interviewed 100 people (full disclosure: I was both a backer and an [...]

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Dillard

By On May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Reading

Yesterday was Annie Dillard’s birthday. A friend tweeted a link to one of my favorite essays, Living Like Weasels, which I’m posting again because I love it so much.

I was going to write today about sentences and writers who write them well, but that essay captures everything I could possibly say [...]

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Writing as Performance

By On March 10, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Books, Reading, Writing

Many writers feel a close bond with Madeleine L’Engle. I’ve written here before about my connections, beginning with reading A Wind in the Door in second grade and startling my biochemist mother by asking her to show me a picture of mitochondria. In third grade, I read A Wrinkle in Time, and in fourth grade, [...]

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