How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives . . . A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
—Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Tag: essays
on david sedaris
Mini reviews of essay collections by David Sedaris: Calypso, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.
qotd: reading
Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.
—Susan Sontag, Where The Stress Falls
on call them by their true names
In her latest work, Rebecca Solnit examines a wide array of American crises through the lens of a single theme: the power of calling things by their true names.
on the writing life
The Writing Life is Pulitzer-winning writer Annie Dillard’s attempt to answer the twin questions that haunt anyone seeking to create thoughtful works of literature: why write, and how might one write well?
