In writing about writing, I’ve recently reviewed The Beauty of Us by Farzana Doctor for The Hamilton Review of Books.
In reading about writing, I recently read The Art of Revision by Peter Ho Davies.
In (RE)reading about reading, I’m revisiting some of Peter Orner’s delightful essays.
And, in writing about reading, I’m researching E.L. Konigsburg, whose From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler sparked many daydreams about being able to live undetected in a museum.
“The summer is standing with its face turned to us for one, last look.”
Oct7, 1971 letter, from JamesSalter to Robert Phelps
I don’t seem to be getting notifications, but with a half hour to spare I thought I’d check to see what I missed. Loved the way you captured the atmosphere in The Beauty of Us – there were resonances with Gurnah’s After Lives, which I am currently reading, when a narrator in a new town finds himself in the midst of competing calls to prayer.