For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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05/06/23 Biking & Listening
Biking is something else I both love and hate. It takes a lot of effort but does provide good exercise and most days over an hour to listen…
Here’s the link to this article. “This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and…
Annie Dillard on What a Stunt Pilot Knows About Impermanence, Creativity, and the Meaning of Life
Here’s the link to this article. “Who could breathe, in a world where rhythm itself had no periods?” BY MARIA POPOVA “Buildings fall; even the earth perishes. What…
Here’s the link to this article. Revisiting the tragic literary hero’s only public insights on life. BY MARIA POPOVA On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962–September 12,…
Richard L. Fricks 