Blogs about: Annie Dillard
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Hearty thanks from all Hesperus Press to Adam Thorpe for his glowing review of Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees in Saturday’s Financial Times. It’s rare that a review is written in lan… more »
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Best of Lists...on any given day
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oh wrote 4 days ago: The thing about any “best of…” list is that it will change on any given day accord … more »
Holy of Holies
Zelig wrote 1 week ago: I wrote this about six weeks ago and didn’t publish it because I didn’t know what to do … more »
The Writing Life: Quoting Annie Dillard
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Eve wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve mentioned writer Annie Dillard a few times in the past week because I’ve recently r … more »
The Weekly Word for June ll is Fear of the Lord
Pamela wrote 3 weeks ago: Contemporary mystic Annie Dillard writes this about Sunday worship: “Does anyone have the foggiest … more »
The Maytrees
darklit wrote 1 month ago: The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard rating: 3 of 5 stars At first this book was very hard to f … more »
The Bering Strait Bridge! !!!! !!!!!!! !
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wheatdear wrote 1 month ago: My parents were in town for a bit this weekend, and thanks to them, I’m newly obsessed with a … more »
Find a Penny...Pick It Up?
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annkroeker wrote 1 month ago: The reason The Belgian Wonder and I could take off for that getaway–the first official trip in … more »
The Surprise of Tiny Purple Things
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shoreacres wrote 1 month ago: Texas beaches have their charm, but it can take time for Floridians, or Californians, or even … more »
Spend It
lfierbaugh wrote 1 month ago: Blue Hole, Elizabethton “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” Annie … more »
Annie Dillard and the Funk of Writing and Reading Too Much
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theexile wrote 1 month ago: Never, ever, get yourself into a situation where you have nothing to do but write and read. You … more »
How To Make Use Of The Best American __________ Anthology
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koreanish wrote 1 month ago: One of the first things I learned as a student of writing in Annie Dillard’s class at Wesleyan … more »
The Books I Can't Live Without
Darcy wrote 1 month ago: An article from the Times Online asked Sebastian Faulks, author of the new James Bond Novels, what w … more »
"Will I use this in my later life?"
helpertouch wrote 2 months ago: We are using grids a la Brunelleschi to do self portraits. I took a nice three-quarters photo of ea … more »
Purity of Prose is to Write One Thing
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shoreacres wrote 2 months ago: Readers who follow my postings know my habit of keeping a series of “snippets” a … more »
Learning to Live by Grace *Updated*
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dangoldfinch wrote 2 months ago: Friends, Here are some thoughts on grace. I just cannot believe, at times, how abundant God’s … more »
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
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chapterten wrote 2 months ago: Not so much a novel as filtered writing on a life, two lives. Bits and pieces of knowledge that floa … more »
Found poetry
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eastofmina wrote 2 months ago: I opened a journal sometime in the last year pondering my use of quotations as markers in my life: I … more »
Around town
chapterten wrote 2 months ago: This is a picture from last summer of the Farmer’s Market in Arroyo Grande. I went this morni … more »
On The Daily Grind,reading Annie Dillard & moments of "huh"
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flawedservant wrote 2 months ago: I went to work this morning at four thirty in the morning, life as usual M-F. After I complete the f … more »
