My Book Report—By Paul Godden, Aged 48¼

Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life (1990) provided a little more than 100 pages of essays, forming a montage of her interpretation of writers and writing. Dillard’s style was clearly illustrated, from her opening paragraphs: When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner’s pick, a woodcarver’s gouge, … Continue reading →

A First Class First Class

So, Jos Van Riswick I am clearly not. His version of a Still Life with Tangerine does make mine look a bit silly, but I don’t reckon he could have picked out his tangerine from a dozen or more in Prof. Luce-Kapler’s shopping bag. The point being, that in our first academic writing class, the Prof. … Continue reading →