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Waxing [Literarily]: William Boyd’s ‘Waiting for Sunrise’
I was looking for books that took place in Vienna shortly after the turn of the 20th century. I had read the LA Times book review of Franzen’s Kraus Project and was particularly interested in his...
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Waxing [Literarily]: The Hotel New Hampshire {John Irving}
I’m going to start with a metaphor. We’ll have to see how long I can carry it for. Reading John Irving is like having your mom do your laundry for you. Okay, how far can we take this. For one, Irving,...
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Kafka on the heavens
“The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavy simply means: the impossibility of crows” Want to see...
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In Argentina and so it must be Borges…..
“A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more...
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David Sedaris’ heartbreaking reflections on his sister’s suicide
From The New Yorker (Oct. 28, 2013) In late May of this year, a few weeks shy of her fiftieth birthday, my youngest sister, Tiffany, committed suicide. She was living in a room in a beat-up house on...
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Kafka on letterwriting
“Writing letters, however, means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for they greedily wait. Written kisses don’t reach their destination , rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”...
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Waxing [Literarily]: Travels with Charley {John Steinbeck}
There’s been much debate on the reality of what happened with John Steinbeck in 1960. His book, Travels with Charley in Search of America, details some (of his/not his) journeys through that year and...
View ArticleThe Geography of You, Reader
Unsurprisingly, I think a lot about destinations. A lot about geography. This comes naturally to a traveler; and for a long time I identified as a traveler. In even the slightest of caged-in moments, I...
View ArticleElif Shafak’s Essay ‘Why The Novel Matters In The Age of Anger’
I believe kids these days would put it like this: this article is giving me life rn. It certainly jarred some life in and out of me. Wow. Just wow. I read it without knowing who the author was (I’ll...
View Article“Absorb Six Authors A Year”
This article was written for my other site, which features a blog dedicated solely to my pursuits in writing. It’s part of a series I’m doing of culled-together writing advices and how I’m trying to...
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