David Denby’s Great Books
There’s a great bit early on in David Denby’s Great Books where he describes what it was like as a 48 y-o returning back to university and reading Homer’s Iliad […]
Goodbye ABC
Before I discovered Baquey, I used to visit the ABC Book & Comic Emporium on Granville between Broadway and Fir. Every couple of weeks I’d browse the cluttered, barely- and […]
The Devil In Me
I read Walter Mosley’s This Year You Write Your Novel a few years before I wrote mine. I knew who Mosley was because of a Denzel Washington film that’d been […]
A Writer’s Discipline
Back when I was reading every book I could find on writing I pulled Jacques Barzun’s On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory (2d ed; Chicago: University of […]
Feeling into Words
Because my photocopy of Seamus Heaney’s “Feeling into Words” is on its last legs (on account of my reading it every time I feel depressed about my writing), and because […]
Bogins 