Category Archives: Literature

Road Trip. Colorado, Kansas, and Who We Are

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

…we’re not born with unlimited choices. We can’t be anything we want to be. We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are … Continue reading →

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Possibility

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

My new niece is two weeks old. This brings my total to two nieces. Naturally, I know that Addy, Savannah, and I will certainly be traveling like mad–once they can get passports. This weekend I watched elderly people’s faces light … Continue reading →

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Citation

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. I could say things to her like, ‘The most singular difference between happiness and … Continue reading →

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The Biblio-Commuter

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

The man’s briefcase lies across his legs like a desk and he rests his elbows on it. The U-Bahn stops, but he does not. He inhales, sits up straight, leans in to read the final page of a massive book. … Continue reading →

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In Bloom.

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

  She had no expression ready for so direct a glance and with a sense of failure she fluttered and dropped her eyes. She wondered if she were blushing. She had forgotten what it felt like inside when one blushed. … Continue reading →

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Under Lock and Dream

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

I left him to his envy. A colleague’s envy, when all is said and done, is the scholar’s one reward on earth. I didn’t tell him that in all likelihood I wouldn’t be publishing anything. My nature is to spend … Continue reading →

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But You Can Drive Something Foreign…

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

For the very notion of homeland, with all its emotional power, is bound up with the relative brevity of our life, which allows us too little time to become attached to some other country, to other countries, to other languages. … Continue reading →

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Book While You Can.

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

In fact most artists recognize their own weaknesses far better than the critics do. Only naturally there is no place for the public parade of this knowledge. If one is prepared to publish a work one must let it speak … Continue reading →

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On the Path, Nonetheless.

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Writing is the only activity which makes me feel “only I could produce this.” Whether or not “this” is of any use is of course the crucial question to which I know not & may not ever know the answer. … Continue reading →

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Go and Look

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

“All the critic can tell you with regard to Titian’s Entombment of Christ, perhaps of all the pictures in the world, is to go and look at it. What else he has to say is history, or biography, or what … Continue reading →

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