Notebook May 2023
Word of mouth
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On reading & writing aloud.
Topic: “Writing”
Reflections June 2021
The cooling of John le Carré
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On the British spy novelist.
Reconsiderations June 2021
The poet as memoirist
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On W. B. Yeats’s Autobiographies.
Reflections May 2021
The cost of words
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On the history and economics of the written word.
Books April 2021
Philip Roth’s plot against himself
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Features April 2021
On “getting” poetry
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On deriving pleasure from poetry.
Reflections February 2021
Stepping stones
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On collecting books.
Reconsiderations February 2021
Isabel Colegate endures
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On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books.