Loving the Liminality of the Essay, My Favorite Genre
I love liminal things. Fall and spring. Dawn and dusk. The first moments of introduction and those lingering seconds before the goodbye. Maybe this is why I love essays so much: they sit in the space...
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This morning, I was reading the brilliant final essay in Brenda Miller’s collection Blessing of the Animals. The piece – “Runes and Incantations” – begins like this: I’ve always believed in signs, and...
View ArticleWriterly Moods
I’m in a Marilynne Robinson kind of mood today. I don’t know Ms. Robinson, so I can’t really say what her moods are as a person. But in her work, there is this quiet, nearly brooding but not...
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