November 16, 2010
I read in and out of various Paris Review interviews regularly—you can never go wrong. Keep ‘em in the bathroom, in fact. This week it’s John Cheever, in The Paris Review Interviews, III. Just when he’s being almost oppressively supercilious in a false-modesty sort of way, I come to this loveliness:
Cummings I loved, and I [...]
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November 13, 2010
We planted the garlic today. As you can see from the photo, there’s not much to show for it—just some bare ground.
Soon that ground will be frozen and covered with snow. In the spring the soil will emerge, still bare, and slowly green shoots will rise toward the warming sun. After a long time we’ll [...]
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