Rhythms of (a writing) Life
At Messiah College last week I was asked three different times this question: "How do you manage to get all the teaching, speaking and writing done?" OK, I've talked about this before, but I'd like to...
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This is an unpublished essay I wrote a few years back and want to post it this and next week while we are in Italy wandering from one Tuscan village to another. Enjoy...Never Alone"...the truth that...
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My heart, for instance, jumped when I recently re-read Dante Alighieri's (whom a Texan friend refers to as "Danny, Ally, and Gerry") The Divine Comedy, which title takes some brushing up against some...
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These sorts of questions and authors have kept me from reading much fiction. It is not that I don't appreciate the authors - I often read biographies of fiction writers - or that I don't think they...
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So, in desultory style, I bought another of Epstein's familiar essays (which he defines as a "line out for a walk"), and then before the summer was out I had read seven books of familiar essays and...
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Shelves, by the way, do make a difference. If my books had made me famous or wealthy (I'd prefer the latter over the former), and if publishers thought of me as someone worth marketing lavishly (which...
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Great authors can sometimes be found in magazines and journals. I subscribe to some academic journals for my field and, like the evening shadow, they are covering the entire room with their shades....
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I don't have a commonplace book, and were I to begin, I would surely fall behind, even if it would be a rush of joy for me just to sit down to write with one of my fountain pens. How do I come up with...
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Professor to Pastor
I learn so much from pastors, and I'll be blogging about one such pastor soon, and I've learned that I learn so much because we learn from one another. Pastors sometimes write me about cracking the...
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Ten Awful Truths About Book Publishing by Steve Piersanti 6-09 Update ...Read the full post here »
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