Monthly Archives: February 2012
‘Narrative’ blog honored
My standards are so low. I don’t feel like I am . . . protecting writing from amateurs or dabblers or those who are simply no good. My students have expressed a profound interest in writing. I let them write … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, electronic publishing, MY LIFE, NOTED
The 100 best nonfiction books?
The Modern Library on its website lists the “100 best” English-language books in fiction and nonfiction. Alongside each are the best according to an online poll—and the readers’ choices consist of much trash: the top three slots of each list, … Continue reading
Filed under Dillard—Saint Annie, fiction, journalism, memoir, narrative, NOTED, teaching
Essay’s ancient spell, memoir’s transformation
[The essay] should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last word. In the interval we may pass through the most various experiences of amusement, surprise, interest, indignation; we may … Continue reading
Filed under essay-classical, essay-expository, memoir, NOTED, postmodernism
‘Our Secret’ by Susan Griffin
Often I have looked back into my past with a new insight only to find that some old, hardly recollected feeling fits into a larger pattern of meaning.—“Our Secret” Susan Griffin’s long essay, a chapter in her book A Chorus … Continue reading
